On Thursday 30 May, a team of devoted and inspired theatre lovers met at St Peter’s Anglican Church to read the latest text in CCS’s journey of exploration through the […]

The CCS season of readings of plays by local playwrights got off to a fine start with Aphra Behn’s City Heiress. If you are new to Aphra, this is a […]

Canterbury Lord Mayor Councillor Jean Butcher showed her Bat and Trap prowess during the celebrations commemorating the official opening of the city’s new Blue Plaques Trail, which the Commemoration Society […]

Come and enjoy the new exhibition of Whitstable Harbour as it was 100 years ago, at its South Quay Shed. Mezzanine floor. Open every day.

Aphra Behn, her bronze polished and waxed, emerged from the foundry today ready to be transported to Canterbury for storage before she takes her place in the High Street outside […]

On 23 February 2024, the Lord Mayor of Canterbury, Councillor Jean Butcher, opened a permanent exhibition of a model of Whitstable Harbour as it was in 1923, at the South […]

Thanks to generous donations from local businessmen Paul Abbott and Paul Roberts, the Society has reached its £75,000 target for the Aphra Behn statue. We are hugely grateful to them […]

It’s looking good for Jason deCaires Taylor’s fine Alluvia underwater statues in the Stour beside the Westgate. After years of neglect, thanks to CCS and with the backing of the […]