Author: David T. Hughes Publisher: Tempus Publishing Limited ISBN: 9780752427621 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 128
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Over 200 images recount the history of Sheerness Naval Dockyard and its garrison since their foundation in the mid-seventeenth century until the official closing ceremony in 1960, including impressive images of the venerable old hulk Cornwallis, a survivor from the time of the Napoleonic wars.
Author: David T. Hughes Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 132
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The history of Chatham Dockyard has been an eventful one. It owes its inception to King Henry VIII who, in 1547, selected the River Medway at Gillingham to be his main fleet anchorage. As more ships were added to the royal fleet the work of the dockyard was increased, until it was deemed necessary to build a small castle to protect the yard and anchorage from attack. In the wars and conflicts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Chatham Dockyard would be called upon again to play its part in maintaining an effective battle fleet. David T. Hughes has compiled a thoughtful and insightful volume of photographs and ephemera on the Chatham Naval Dockyard and Barracks, looking at it from its early days of existence until its role in more recent years, from the First and Second World Wars to the Falklands.
Author: Anthony Lane Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 1445640074 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 185
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This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the Kent Coast has changed and developed over the last century
Author: Catherine Lee Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317321499 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 224
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Focusing on the ports, dockyards and garrison towns of Kent, this study examines the social and economic factors that could cause a woman to turn to prostitution, and how such women were policed.
Author: Graeme Gleaves Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport ISBN: 1399095102 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 352
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The Isle of Sheppey sits just off the north coast of Kent, where the Medway and Thames estuaries flow into the North Sea. Over centuries this was a place that was home to farmland, castles, a dock yard, an air station, industrial installations, calm beaches and a population of islanders who have taken a pride in their home. To serve the needs of all of this a small railway network was built up and even an urban tram network. Included in this was a fixed link that was the first to ever link the island to the mainland. From 1860 the network grew as the importance of the island grew. Continental boat passengers, dockyard workmen and day trippers, they were all carried on the trains and trams that shuttled about to, from and across the flat terrain of this often overlooked island. Being an island can create its own unique set of challenges and the railways on the island were certainly challenged by misfortune and circumstances, but the little network kept going until economics got the better of it and from there on it becomes a story of contractions and closure. The Island can still boast a railway today but it is far removed from the story of its past. This work seeks to tell the story of the railways on the island, how they came to be built, how they were run and how times changed over the following decades.
Author: Jerry Lockett Publisher: Formac Publishing Company Limited ISBN: 1459500806 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 276
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How we learned to forecast weather--and the extraordinary story of the prediction that came true for one of the century's worst storms on the East Coast
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