Medway YC on TV, 22 Sept
Medway Yacht Club will be featured as part of Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages programme to be aired on Tuesday 22nd September at 9pm on More Four.
Category: History/archaeology
Boating on the Medway 1949-1995
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)....
Pump House to become Distillery
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...
Raid on the Medway
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...
Roman Settlements of the Medway, 22 Jan 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...
The Accidental Death of HMS Bulwark, 26 November 1914
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...
18th century Russian ship visits Chatham
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...
Launched Sideways in Faversham Creek
This is a trailer for A Sideways Launch by Mike Maloney, available on DVD from www.cwideprods.co.uk
Faversham Creek: it’s not a street
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...
Six weeks on Darnet Island
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,...
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