Born 1/9/1939, died 6/6/2022 Simon was born in Calcutta, educated at Shrewsbury and Cambridge where he represented the University in the...

By Harold Goodwin, writing in a personal capacity In the past few weeks our chaotic Government has said that it intends to scrap the...

Photos by Seamus Masters Back in 1972, a few keen traditional boat sailors from north Kent organised a race for Essex smacks and Thames...

By Claudia Heywood In 2007, the date coinciding exactly with the birth of the owner’s first child, a new Indian restaurant opened on...

Photos of Simon and his workshop by Peter Smith. The original Mayhi was a wooden estuary sailing boat, with a characteristic shallow...

By Alan Thorne FAVERSHAM SKIFFIE FEST 2022 This three-day event powerfully demonstrated the pleasure and thrill of racing boats in...

By Mike Palmer: Chair NPBCA 2015 - 22 There is no doubt that in its short life the NPBCA has helped to change the face of Faversham....

By John Wellard In the last issue of the Faversham Eye, we reported on the continuing attempt to divert the existing footpath going...

The temporary planning permission granted to EE for the telecom tower that has graced our central carpark for the past couple of years...

A Faversham Italian Wine bar owner, who wishes to remain anonymous, was recently fined £150 for dropping a cigarette butt down a drain...

FEATURES Faversham Fringe Tuesday, October 25th – Sunday, October 30th, 2022 Faversham Fringe is a festival featuring all genres of the...

Letter from Oz Dear Editor, G'day. Some years back before the Pandie buggered everything, I made a pilgrimage to the hub of Anglicanism -...

The Town Council recently commissioned Dr Barry Blackburn a criminologist to analyse crime in Faversham and make recommendations for what...

COMPILED BY R. GREGORY ACROSS 1&4. Plant a border as an alternative (6,5) 4. See 1a 8. Author maybe runs in two directions (5) 9. It's...

By Brian Pain 2021 was generally a pretty dreadful year. At the Eye, we made the difficult decision to cancel our planned Faversham...

By Brian Pain At long last most people in Faversham are aware of and concerned by the deluge of new housing planned on the farmland...

By Brian Pain In August 2013, Southern Water our friendly local wastewater treatment company, was fined £2.7 million for deliberate...

By John Wellard The sequel to CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME published in the Faversham Eye March 2020, the Bensted Charities secretary, Sue...

Si Root, from Charing, is the owner of The Hideout, a local design and digital agency. SI has a passion for black and white photography....

By Harold Goodwin, Stephen Atkins and Matthew Hatchwell Faversham people understand what is special about our town and we want to keep it...