Tour de Pubs
Did you know that the White Hart has a 17th century Civil War corps chute into the cellar? One of the thousand and one fascinating facts and stories related by […]
Fine start in new venue
Our 2025 season of readings of the works of celebrated Canterbury playwrights began on 22 April with Somerset Maugham’s The Sacred Flame. With two new readers and a new venue, […]
Ray Evison
It was with great sadness that we learned of the death of Ray Evison on 14 March 2025. Born in Cheshire, Ray was a stalwart servant of the city and […]
Spring Cleaning Alluvia
Our sincere thanks to Westgate Punts for wading into the Stour with the official CCS statue broom and sweeping the winter debris from our lovely Alluvia. She’s not as new, […]
The Theatre Revolution of the 1580s
On Thursday 13 March the Society heard a fascinating talk by Rory Loughnane of Kent University on the part played by William Shakespeare and Canterbury’s Christopher Marlowe in reshaping Elizabethan […]
Her Majesty Queen Camilla unveils Aphra
On Tuesday 25 February, Her Majesty Queen Camilla did Canterbury Commemoration Society the honour of unveiling Christine Charlesworth’s magnificent statue of Aphra Behn in Canterbury High Street. The statue is […]
SIMMONS RESURGENS!
The unveiling on 26 January of the new information board about Alderman James Simmons, the great improver of Canterbury in the late 18th century, by Stewart Ross, chair of the […]
SIMMONS SCRUBBED UP
The Society’s Secretary and his long suffering wife braved the bitter cold of a January morning to spruce up the tomb of Alderman James Simmons, Canterbury’s Great Tycoon, at St […]
SIGNING OFF WITH A CRACKER
On December 6th, the Society concluded a most eventful year with a jolly and well attended Christmas party that raised several hundred pounds for our funds. The highlight of the […]