Fleur deLis Museum

The Fleur de Lis Museum occupies three linked period buildings on Preston Street, one of them a former fifteenth-century public house, and is run entirely by the Faversham Society, a registered charity. Displays trace the town from a pre-Roman settlement through its industries: hop growing and brewing, gunpowder and explosives manufacture, brick making, Thames barge building and fruit growing. A recreated Victorian schoolroom and kitchen sit alongside wartime displays and a collection of old shop fronts. Entry is free and the ground floor is wheelchair accessible, though a steep staircase without a lift limits access to the upper rooms. Opening is restricted to Wednesday, Friday and Saturday mornings into early afternoon, plus Market Sundays, and the museum runs largely on volunteers rather than paid staff. The building, half-timbered and centuries old, is as much an exhibit as anything inside it.