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editorial@indexmagazine.co.uk JUNE NEWS Key city museum objects set to inspire young people
A total of 14 items from the city council’s museums and galleries collection are part of a new project revealing the county’s history.
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100 Objects That Made Kent is led by The Historic Dockyard Chatham and supported by museums in the county, including The Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, Canterbury Roman Museum and Canterbury Heritage Museum. The online project is particularly aimed at teachers, offering new, free educational resources to inspire young people to take a closer look at Kent’s heritage, but is also
available to anyone who would like to know more.
Among the Canterbury objects
included are the Mummified Cat, Ibis Staff Head and Hop Picking No 1 at the Beaney and the Bronze Helmet, Mosaic Floor and Cavalry Sword from the Roman Museum. Featured items from Canterbury Heritage Museum are the Canterbury Cross, Iron Stirrup, Pilgrim Badge and First World War Letter. • For more information, visit
www.100objectskent.co.uk/museums/
Commemorative plaque unveiled for Chaucer statue
The city’s Lord Mayor, Councillor George Metcalfe, unveiled a commemorative plaque listing the donors to the Chaucer in Canterbury project whose names do not appear as pilgrims on the plinth itself. The bronze plaque will be placed near the
sculpture, fi xed to the brick pier to the right of the gate into the Three Cities Garden. The Canterbury Commemoration Society (CCS) commissioned the sculpture
to commemorate Geoffrey Chaucer and his association with Canterbury. Created by Kent sculptor Sam Holland, and the plinth by the Yorkshire-based sculptor Lynne O’Dowd, the sculpture was formally gifted to the City of Canterbury in October 2016.
The plinth depicts the characters featured
in Chaucer’s Prologue to the Canterbury Tales but represented by personalities with a Canterbury connection, in a re-working of Thomas Stothard’s painting of the Journey to Canterbury, which hangs in the Beaney Library.
Fantastic fundraising effort continues for Ray
East Kent businessman Ray Johnson is celebrating in the wake of completing his 17th marathon in aid of the Kent Association for the Blind. For this year’s event in the capital, Ray set a target of £4,000 that he has nearly reached, with donations fl ooding in from friends and family. “I was delighted to complete this year’s race by coming in at 4 hours 40 minutes. It was a bit slower than last year, but as ever the crowds were fantastic,” said Ray. To contribute, you can make a cheque payable to KAB for Ray Johnson’s attention at Independent Insurance Services, Church House, 136 Sandgate Road, Folkestone CT20 2BN.
© Martin Mayer © Ray Evison
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