This section is still in the early stages of preparation and I have a great deal of planning and work to do. I apologise but if you have any questions regarding Herne or Herne Bay and their history, however, please contact me and I'll see if I can help.
This section on the village of Herne was never going to be part of my website, but it's where my great-great-great grandparents owned a farm, my great-great grandparents were market gardeners and where my great grandfather was born so, I suppose, it has played a great (no pun intended) part in my family history.
AS my ancestry is, mainly, Kent, I picked up a good deal of knowledge and information on Herne, in doing my research so it makes sense to add this to my website. That was the easy bit because of all the work I had done over twenty-five years. It doesn't look much on-line, perhaps, well, not at the moment, but it looks a lot more with three shelves, each twelve feet long (that's 3.6576 metres, for the politically correct or, if you prefer a more user-freindly measurement, roughly 19.2 bananas - taking the average length of a banana as being 7.5 inches or 190.5 millimetres) and each of these shelves is filled with box folders and files, plus I have a two-drawer steel filing cabinet and a very large wooden desk with five drawers - all filled with files.
[Steven Newport The following picture was amongst my fathers notes but not on the website, so I have decided to add it in here:]
[Steven Newport I was curious about the above publication, so the following is a r-worder extract from a Google AI search on 5th November 2025.]
"New British Traveller" was published by an Alexander Hogg initially around 1783, being completed in 1784. It was a topographical review of Great Britain and Ireland, containing text, maps, and numerous prints. Primarily covereing England, with very small sections on other areas but later versions were reissued in different formats and titles, such as "The New and Complete English Traveller" in 1794 and "The New British Traveller or Modern Panorama" in 1818-1820, though these are not part of the original 1780s publication.
The origal source from Google AI was: Copperplate Antique Maps and Prints, established by Kevin and Caroline Welch in 2006