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Here is where you'll find all blog updates about the progress of the Kenley Revival Project.

#WomensHistoryMonth 2019
01/03/2019
Throughout March 2019, to celebrate Women’s History Month, the Kenley Revival Project will be posting an article or photo everyday, ...
Hayes Primary School History Week
25/02/2019
Excellent. The children loved the artefacts, videos and audio clips. Great range of activities and resources. Teacher This workshop made me feel ...
Competition Winners!
21/01/2019
Thank you to everyone who entered and thank you to Barry for creating the final artwork and to our lovely volunteers for ...
Rationing Begins
16/01/2019
On the 8 January 1940, rationing began in the UK, this first started with bacon, butter and sugar – later ...
Lillias Barr Performances
23/11/2018
In a moving tribute to RAF Kenley, this month, the Kenley Revival Project have brought to the stage the true ...
Visit to the Douglas Brunton Centre
20/11/2018
As part of our Remembrance Season, this November, the Kenley Revival Project decided to make a wreath to be laid ...
RAF Kenley's Tribute
24/10/2018
The Kenley team have previously posted about the RAF Kenley Tribute and about how it was moved forward out of ...
Community Archaeology Year 2 - Archaeological Investigation Report
18/10/2018
Below is the full report of our 2018 dig, it presents the results of a community archaeological investigation with fieldwork ...
Community Archaeology 2018
09/08/2018
That’s a wrap! Our community archaeology dig for this year has come to its end, we tackled two weeks of insane ...
Digging into the Past: A Vintage Poster with Local Roots - Croydon Citizen Article
06/04/2018
“After posting some of the newly created images and some of the vintage ones on Facebook, I received a message ...
RAF100 and 101 years of RAF Kenley
03/04/2018
As 2018 marks 100 years of the Royal Air Force, we would like to share some of the 101 years ...
Women in Uniform and Overalls
27/03/2018
‘The War Illustrated’ magazine article brought in by one of the Kenley Revival Project volunteers, the article is demonstrating the ...
Women of the Empire take the Joystick
22/03/2018
Scanned from a copy of ‘The War Illustrated’ brought in by one of the Kenley Revival Project volunteers, the article ...
AFS Girls - Women Fire Fighters in WW2
20/03/2018
Article scanned from a copy of ‘The War Illustrated’ brought in by one of the Kenley Revival Project volunteers, the ...
Volunteer Christmas Party!
14/12/2017
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… Celebrating the end of the year and the beginning of the new with our volunteers! Over ...
Visit to Old Coulsdon Centre
01/12/2017
Kenley Revival Project – Sharing local peoples Kenley memories on our website The project team came to hear the Kenley memories of some ...
Highlight of our Year: Sky Heroes
27/11/2017
Now the end of this year is upon us, we should reflect on all the achievements that the project has made, ...
Recruiting now: become an education volunteer!
27/11/2017
Join our team of education volunteers and learn how to deliver and support delivery of WW2 tours and workshops for schools ...
Interviewing Stan Ford: Ground crew at RAF Kenley on the Hardest Day
21/11/2017
It was a privilege to spend time interviewing Stan Ford last week. Stan was a fitter for 615 Squadron, and ...
Nominate Kenley airfield for Historic England's 'irreplaceable' 100 places!
14/11/2017
Supporters and visitors of Kenley airfield can now nominate our fantastic heritage site in Historic England’s new campaign for the ...
Team London Awards
08/11/2017
On Monday, 6 November, some of our education volunteers and project team, on behalf of all our amazing education volunteers, ...
Community Archaeology Year 1 - Archaeological Investigation Report
02/11/2017
This report presents the results of a community archaeological investigation with fieldwork supervised by MOLA at Kenley Airfield and forms part of the Heritage Lottery Funded Kenley Revival Project.
Conservation Works coming to a close: Conservation, Preservation and Restoration
02/10/2017
It’s been an incredible year here at Kenley Revival HQ. We’ve achieved our biggest single event to date with our ...
A dig in the past - Community Archaeology Project 2017
18/08/2017
As part of the Kenley Revival Project we delved a little deeper into RAF Kenley`s fascinating history and revealed the ...

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