The Cambria Trust

Thames barges in their heyday - a lecture by Tony Farnham

This will take place on Wednesday 19th November 2008 at 7.0pm at the Conference Centre at The Abbey School, London Road, Faversham. Admission will be £4 at the door, School children: - Free. ...
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August 30th: The official opening of Baltic House

On the Saturday of the Faversham Hop Festival, the Cambria Trust celebrated its first anniversary of arriving at Standard Quay. What a successful first year we have enjoyed in Faversham! The Standard Quay and sailing barge Cambria Visitor centre was officially opened by Alan Willicombe, the mayor of Swale, and he brought along some of his colleagues from across Kent to view the exhibition and to look around the restoration. ...
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Cambria becomes a home

During the House opening scheme, the Cambria Trust wondered whether it qualified as a residence, but we were delighted to find that a family of pied wagtails had taken up residence and chosen a secluded spot to build their nest. ...
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Cambria joins the Open House scheme

For the first three Saturdays in July, Cambria joined the Faversham Society's Open house scheme, when many private buildings are made open for viewing. The Cambria Trust allowed visitors to view the Cambria Centre and showed several hundred people the progress in the restoration of the barge. We would like to thank the Faversham Society for allowing us to present our work to so many visitors. ...
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Everard's Grandchildren visit the Cambria

The Cambria Trust Patron, Bruce Richardson and project manager William Collard were delighted to welcome two of the grandchildren of William Everard who built Cambria in 1906. ...
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Local schools come aboard

During the past few weeks, Cambria and the Visitors Centre have been host to a variety of students. The Abbey school Faversham have made three separate visits involving year seven history students who will be following the rebuild of Cambria as part of their curriculum. Two groups from the NW Kent College wood working section visited with the prospect of joining the shipwright course, which we hope to be running with the same college on Standard Quay. ...
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