One Folkestone Launches!!!
One Folkestone Community partnership 1F Newsletter #1 January 2026 Welcome to our first newsletter It begins here and now!We hope 2026 has got off to a good start for you and yours. The aim...
Category: Community
Public service at a crossroads
Grace Hill Library and the wider context of a democratic deficit: Cllr. Jane Darling (Folkestone Town Council) sets out her views and appeals to Kent County Council to act now. The Actions of KCC...
To 2024 and beyond!
So this is Christmas… (John Lennon) Next week closes off 2023. As usual, a series of bigger bangs, fiery flashes and planet pollutants will mark the new year by scorching skies around the globe....
Literature? Splendid stuff!
A final contribution to the entertaining and informative series of blogs– loosely linked to the history of Folkestone Library –by Professor Carolyn Oulton, School of Humanities, Canterbury Christ Church University ‘He had no doubt...
Who’s in charge here?
Free tickets for the Library campaign and Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? A personal reflection after 3 months of The Save Our Library campaign by Jon O’Connor. A little Latin does you good – the...
Women and the Library
Professor Carolyn Oulton of Canterbury Christchurch University finds yet another entertaining and thought-provoking insight into the story of Grace Hill Library…. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Young woman to her brother,...
Dickens ragged steps and amateur twaddle
Another article from Professor Carolyn Oulton on the curious history of Folkestone’s Library and one of the more famous contributors to the collection of writers locked away inside Grace Hill! It was meant to...
Reading in the Rain
Grace Hill Library early history…. A series of blogs written for the Save Our Library campaign by Professor Carolyn Oulton of Canterbury Christchurch University If you’re finding it hard to think about summer reading...
Disgraceful: Grace Hill library betrayal
The shocking announcement by Kent County Council that Folkestone’s main public library is to close has sent ripples of rage throughout the local community. Politicians are carefully setting our their position ahead of the...