The funeral of KMOTT’s former President, Sir Charles Jessel, Bt, took place on Wednesday, the 20th of April. He was 97. He studied PPE at Balliol College, Oxford and, after call-up, served in the final years of the war in the 15th/19th The Kings Royal Hussars. He was, in fact,...
We finally have a year packed with KMOTT events! 2022 looks set to be one of the best yet, with several long awaited get-togethers planned, including local day visits – and of course, the long trip, this year to Gloucestershire. Full details and directions for each event will be emailed...
On October 11th 2021 fourteen brave souls took the perilous journey to the far West and into the land of the Celts. Would they be met with hostility as foreign invaders? We knew that the journey would be long and to add a semblance of normality to our fatigued state...
The Kent Men of the Trees is proud to have supplied 50 trees for two university sites in Kent. The first, at the recently established Kent and Medway Medical School (KMMS) on Kent’s Canterbury campus and the second, outside the Verena Holmes Building on Canterbury Christ Church University campus. The trees...
On 12th May 2021 – in glorious warm sunshine, 17 members visited Charles Aldington’s lovely landscape garden overlooking Romney Marsh. We were generously given nearly 2 hours of his time on a guided walk around the woodland and formal gardens enjoying huge views enhanced by careful planting to maximise their...
Hooray! Kent Men of the Trees has actually managed a visit in this year of plague! On Monday 6th July 2020 eleven members met on Yalding Hill to view the six acre arboretum created by Mr Paul Reddy over the last twenty-five years at Hill Farm Oast. He has done...
Following the recent guidelines on COVID-19, the KMOTT AGM 2020 HAS BEEN CANCELLED. The situation will be monitored and we hope to re-schedule the AGM when it is safe to do so. We apologise for any inconvenience but will be in touch again once a new date has been...
On the 17th of July 2019 twenty five members toured Sir Charles Jessel’s estate at South Hill, Hastingleigh in glorious sunny weather. Sir Charles, riding his high-powered, turbo-charged buggy led us first through the garden and informed us that except for the gigantic specimen of Tilia adjacent to the house...
On the first day of the Merry Month of May twenty-three members arrived at the estate of Tom and Davina Wood to tour the woodland that had been created on what had formerly been a plant nursery known as Oakover Nurseries. After the company had moved to another location Tom...
KMOTT members are warmly invited to attend the KMOTT AGM at 2.30pm on Saturday 13 April 2019, as usual at Egerton Village Hall, Elm Close, Egerton TN27 9DS. This year our speaker is Simon Brice, a KMOTT member whom many of you will know. He will deliver a thirty-minute illustrated...
