Northfleet History Group - March 2011 Meeting.
AUTHORS AND SUFFRAGETTES
Bob Ogley
Bob Ogley is an author, broadcaster and a popular speaker and Authors and Suffragettes were just some of the topics covered in the very entertaining talk given by Bob to Northfleet History Group at their March meeting.
Authors with connections with Kent such as Enid Blyton, Edith Nesbitt and Frances Hodgson Burnett, whose novel The Secret Garden was said to be inspired by the walled gardens at her home Great Maytham Hall near Rolvenden, Kent .
Another famous author Arthur Conan Doyle was very opposed to women’s emancipation. He did not know that whilst he was giving a talk against votes for women at the Nevill Cricket Pavilion in Tunbridge Wells that two militant suffragettes were under the stage building a bonfire!
Many more stories were told of Teddy Boys followed by Mods and Rockers and of the Beatles filming the first ever music video in Knole Park.
The loudest laugh of the afternoon was when the audience were told that the 1960s was now a history topic for today’s school children, the majority in the audience remember the 1960s all too well.
Following refreshments, Tony Bontoft, a local collector of Gravesend and Northfleet memorabilia displayed some of his collection for members to see, including beer flagons, medicine bottles, books, postcards and commemorative china, telling the meeting how he came by some of his prize possessions and the history behind them.
Authors with connections with Kent such as Enid Blyton, Edith Nesbitt and Frances Hodgson Burnett, whose novel The Secret Garden was said to be inspired by the walled gardens at her home Great Maytham Hall near Rolvenden, Kent .
Another famous author Arthur Conan Doyle was very opposed to women’s emancipation. He did not know that whilst he was giving a talk against votes for women at the Nevill Cricket Pavilion in Tunbridge Wells that two militant suffragettes were under the stage building a bonfire!
Many more stories were told of Teddy Boys followed by Mods and Rockers and of the Beatles filming the first ever music video in Knole Park.
The loudest laugh of the afternoon was when the audience were told that the 1960s was now a history topic for today’s school children, the majority in the audience remember the 1960s all too well.
Following refreshments, Tony Bontoft, a local collector of Gravesend and Northfleet memorabilia displayed some of his collection for members to see, including beer flagons, medicine bottles, books, postcards and commemorative china, telling the meeting how he came by some of his prize possessions and the history behind them.