Enjoy this curious couple’s epic quest to follow the River Medway – from its Sussex source to the Thames Estuary. This epic journey starts at a boggy Butcher’s Basin in the Sussex High Weald, past a mixture of rural and industrial views, features stately homes, uniformed RAC men, medieval bridges, locks, weirs, breweries, barges and overhead cranes. We sail past Shorts Sunderland flying boats, the Thames Queen paddle steamer and warships (inc HMS Boadicea) at Chatham, before finally arriving at Sheerness.
Fantastic, thank you so much for sharing this film
Thanks for posting that; fascinating!
Watched the film. Fantastic!
Just loved the upriver stuff … wife ‘detailed’ to go in search as the husband films. Loved to have met them…
Above Aylesford was so interesting, from a little trickle to a boating river, then below, an area sailed.
The derelict brick and cement workings down by the paper mill. The Short Bros works, working cement works on the Frindsbury Peninsular opposite Chatham Intra, the dockyard.
Then off into the main body all yotties know so well. The Berry Wiggins fuel jetty (other hadn’t been built) and as we all know, the BW affair sits largely under water. Note the little hose handling cranes – all still on jetty head!
And so, on past the Grain Oil Depot – 1930s and before the refinery was built, it came and went by c1980.
And then on into Sheerness Harbour full of a plethora of naval vessels. Sheerness Fort a massive baulk on its shingle bank – today it is partially hidden, has a roadway running through it and is surmounted by WW2 gubbins and modern port authority paraphernalia.
Ah, Great!
Thank you so much.