February 2025
Those strange structures off the Kent coast have played a key role in maritime and radio history. Frank Turner, from Gravesend, is passionate about the Maunsell forts, so much so that he is spearheading a campaign of restoration. He told their fascinating story to a 40-strong audience at the first MMF talk of the year held on February 13 in Maidstone Museum
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February 2025
MMF has once again been chosen by the highly regarded Willington Players to benefit from every ticket sold by the charity for their next production Calendar Girls.
This heartwarming and hilarious play is based on a true story and the hit 2003 film. When Annie’s husband dies of leukaemia, she and her best friend Chris decide to raise funds for the local hospital. They create a calendar featuring friends from the Women’s Institute…
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November 2024
Ten illustrious founders of the Association of Men of Kent and Kentishmen (AMKKM) met in a London hotel in December 1897 to launch an organisation that would go on to promote and love the county for more than 125 years. It spawned branches across Kent and attracted many Establishment figures, including Lord-Lieutenants and other influencers
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October 2024
Many will know the Kohima Epitaph heard at Remembrance events on and around November 11. “When you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow, we gave our today.”
Fewer may know why it is called Kohima and that Kohima, along with Imphal, was a critical battle in India that proved a turning point in the war with Japan.
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September 2024
MMF is one of the charities kindly chosen again by the long-established and highly regarded Willington Players to benefit from every ticket sold by the charity for their next production, Terence Rattigan’s acclaimed Second World War drama Flare Path. This story of love, loyalty and desire is set against the backdrop of an RAF Bomber Command night mission.
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September 2024
For more than 300 years, Freemasons have been sharing friendship, helping good causes – and somehow courting controversy. This has dogged a movement that has more than 8,000 members in East and West Kent, 190,000 across England, Wales and Scotland, and 5,000 female members. Secrecy, alleged strange practices, aprons and “secret” handshakes, nepotism – accusations fly.
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