Being at home and looking out of your window or walking about the village more doing your daily exercise you might be looking around you and beginning to have questions like:
How old is my house? Who lived here in the past? Why are there farmhouses in the middle of the fields? Have the fields always been there? Which is the oldest building in the village? How long have people lived here?
Or perhaps you’re thinking this is a good time to start researching your family history.
Or perhaps you are struggling with a school history project.
If you would like answers or help on any aspect of history please do get in touch and I will do my best to answer them. If I don’t know the answer I have lots of contacts in the worlds of local history and archaeology who should be able to help or I can point you in the direction of appropriate websites.
Similarly, you may be out in your garden for more of the time and need some advice or suggestions – for example on plants, vegetables, shrubs, trees, pests and diseases. Do get in touch and I will pick the very knowledgeable brains of Gardening Club members.
Janet Morris
West Wickham & District Local History Club & West Wickham & District Gardening Club
Contact jmmorris@jmmorris.plus.com or 290863 if you want a chat.
Would anyone have information about my great grandparents ( surname Gordon) who left West Wickham somewhere in the late 1800s with their children William, George ( my grandfather), Ethel and Clara. They moved to Girton, Cambridgeshire.