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'And others intruded by Parliament.' Crayford Rector (1647-49) Thomas Thorowgood
The rector board at St. Paulinus church, Crayford does not show the name of Thomas Thorowgood, who was rector from ...
3D VR Virtual Reality on KUULA.co: May Place and the Crayford Heath Muster
CRAY worked with Rob Nutter of RH Viz to create two virtual reality tours that can transport you back to ...
A Story Book Finish
To complete our Vindication of Christmas project, CRAY have produced a storybook that covers the fascinating events that involved our ...
Africans during the English Civil War period 1642-51
CRAY volunteer Rachel Poku travelled with the group to the National Civil War Centre in Newark to interview Sophie Merrix, ...
BEAUTNESS ANIMATION of King Charles I and Oliver Cromwell: An Enduring Westminster Battle
In August the young people of CRAY visited St Margaret’s church beside Westminster Abbey to see two of the key ...
BEAUTNESS ANIMATION: William Parry Crayford's Royal Rebel Blacksmith
During our research into Crayford and the English Civil War, CRAY came across the story of Crayford, royalist, rebel, and ...
CRAY John Taylor Presentation at Waterman's Hall 9th December 2022
Our project is called, ‘The Vindication of Christmas‘ because of a pamphlet written by the King’s Water Poet, John Taylor ...
CRAY Vindication of Christmas Film Showcase
On Thursday 12th October 2023 CRAY presented our copleted documentary film at its first public screening at St Paulinus Church, ...
DIGITAL WORKS/CRAY DOCUMENTARY: The Vindication of Christmas
In the Summer of 2022, the young members of CRAY worked with Matt Rosenberg and Sav Kyriacou of Digital Works, ...
EDUCATION PACK PART 2: Vindication of Christmas
As part of CRAY’s outreach work, we worked with CRAY volunteers Mary Lasley and Megan Garrett to create an education ...
Edward May: Crayford's Royalist, Rebel, Rector
Edward May appears under the year 1643 on the St Paulinus rector board. This was the year that Dr Thomas ...
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Hopping Mad: Clarkson versus May - A Crayford Civil War
The Reverend David Clarkson was the second Puritan rector ‘imposed by parliament’, on the parishioners of Crayford. Having driven out ...
INTERVIEW: Civil War Arms and Armour
CRAY visited the National Army Museum in Chelsea to meet English Civil War expert Julian Farrance. Julian told our group ...
John Taylor and the Vindication of Christmas
The title of our project, The Vindication of Christmas comes from a pamphlet of the same name written in 1652 ...
Laurence Clarkson: A Ranter in Dartford 1648
Dartford, during the Civil War, proved itself to be a hotbed of idealists. Radicals, Vavasor Powell and Leveller John Lilburne ...
Leveller Free Born John Lilburne Comes to Dartford Sunday 23 January 1648
After the Royalist defeat at Naseby in 1645, Charles I escaped to Oxford, before surrendering to the Scots, who ransomed ...
Marchamont Nedham and Christmas
One of the acts of the Puritan Parliament during the English Civil War was to ban the celebration of Christmas, which they ...
May Place House RH Viz VR Training
Rob Nutter of RH Viz worked with CRAY volunteers to help us step back in time to when Fairfax’s New ...
ORIGINAL MUSIC: You'll Never Stop Christmas Time
CRAY worked with singer-songwriter Vince Burke to create a song we could get local children to sing to mark the ...
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Puritan Powell and the Plague
Vavasour Powell served as rector of Holy Trinity church, Dartford, at a difficult time when a war weary down was ...
Retribution: William Draper and the Aftermath of the Second Civil War
Shortly after the end of the Second Civil War, Crayford’s Lord of the Manor, William Draper was appointed to the ...
RH VIZ 3D VR recreation of Lord Fairfax's New Model Army Muster on Crayford Heath 1648
When I first began researching the story of Crayford in the Civil War, to gather information for our Heritage Fund ...
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