Montgomery Mast removal – live webcam – updated
A live webcam has been set up to view the work of removing the masts of the Montgomery https://unexploded.live/ Another camera set up by James Bell at the Isle of Sheppey Sailing Club is...
Category: History/archaeology
Historic Lightship LV21 arrives at Chatham Dockyard
The historic lightship LV21, previously at Gillingham Pier, has now returned from Gravesend. Photo by Laurie Chalk
Gillingham Marina
A message from Tan & Tass For over 150 years, hardworking men known as the Muddies toiled in the Medway estuary, digging tons of mud to fuel the cement industry. They were tough, they lived hard,...
PS Waverley is coming to Medway -Updated
PS Waverley will be entering the Medway estuary around 14:00 this Sunday, she will conduct a salute to the Medway Queen and at 15:00, unfortunately, owing to tides she will not proceed to Limehouse Wharf, Rochester...
PS Waverley is coming to Medway
PS Waverley will be entering the Medway estuary around 14:00 this Sunday, she will conduct a salute to the Medway Queen and at 15:00 is expected to make a trial run to Limehouse Wharf, Rochester in expectation...
Celebrate RNLI 200 at The Historic Dockyard Chatham
On Monday 4 March, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) celebrated 200 years since its formation. In partnership with the RNLI, The Historic Dockyard Chatham have launched a commemorative five-month exhibition for the charity’s 200th anniversary...
Ghost Ships – Historic Dockyard
“This major immersive theatre event, from award-winning Icon Theatre, recharts the history of Chatham Dockyard, asking who owns our history and what stories should we tell?” Icon Theatre
The Loneliest Grave in England
We have received a superb video update by Nicola White on the sad story behind brave Dr Sidney Bernard’s marshy grave on Burntwick Island:
Watery Trail: River Medway (1938 film)
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,...
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