History/archaeology / Motor cruising
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 5th August 2015 · Last modified 6th August 2015
Some fascinating old cine film from the Medway Archive and Local Studies Centre Rochester to Allington Motor Barge Flagon (Albert Rutland) Further upstream to Tonbridge These are large files (35-45MB) in Windows Movie format (.wmv)....
Planning permission has been granted for Russell Distillers to turn Pump House No.5 at Chatham Maritime into a distillery producing a range of spirits: premium vodka, gin and whisky. The Grade II listed Victorian...
In June 2017 the Medway will see the commemoration of the 350th anniversary of the Dutch Raid, known to our Continental cousins as the Battle of Chatham. The biggest humiliation of the Royal Navy...
History/archaeology / Talk or lecture
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 13th January 2015 · Last modified 21st January 2015
The Inland Waterways Association (IWA) Kent & East Sussex Branch, invite us to an illustrated talk on Roman Settlements of the Medway by Simon Elliott, a local archaeologist with a particular interest in Roman...
Clifford Mickleburgh, Secretary of the Cruising Association Kent Section, writes: Many of you may be aware of the East and West Bulwark buoys marking the military wreck of HMS Bulwark at Kethole Reach on...
Classic vessels / History/archaeology
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 15th September 2014 · Last modified 1st October 2014
The Shtandart, a faithful replica of Russia’s first warship built for Peter the Great in 1703, has arrived in the Medway. The tsar, using the name Peter Mikhailov, learned the art of shipbuilding from...
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 24th November 2013 · Last modified 25th November 2013
This is a trailer for A Sideways Launch by Mike Maloney, available on DVD from www.cwideprods.co.uk
Classic vessels / History/archaeology / Planning / Sailing barges
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 30th June 2013
At Faversham Creek sailing barges and other traditional craft are still moored and repaired, but for how much longer? Planners and developers seem ignorant of history and geography, also blind to what is lost if...
Local canoeist, artist and photographer David Wise spent six weeks in 2012 camping (with the owner’s permission) on Darnet Island. His moving film “Otherness” is on his website and you can order his book,...
Tim Bell of the Isle of Sheppey Sailing Club invites sponsorship of the Round the Island Race on 7 September. It would help the race if as many as possible nominate it for the Yachts and...
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