The town of Gillingham in Kent grew up around the Royal Navys Chatham Dockyard. By the River Medway, this had been an important maritime area for centuries but it was only in the 19th century that the small settlement grew into a town. A large proportion of the towns workforce and businesses depending on the dockyard so its closure in the 1980s meant that the town had to rebuild its focus. It is now the largest and busiest town in the Medway Region but much has changed over the years, annual military and naval displays that are now just a memory, houses occupied by artisans and labourers demolished, shops and chapels removed due to extensive road projects, cinemas and theatres redeveloped, as well as barracks, defence works and the Victorian naval dockyard that have had to find a new life. Lost Gillingham presents a portrait of this corner of Kent over the last century to recent decades that has radically changed or disappeared today, showing not only industries and buildings that have gone but also people and street scenes, many popular places of entertainment and much more. This fascinating photographic history of lost Kent will appeal to all those who live in the area or know it well, as well as those who remember it from previous decades.
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Dimensions: 165 x 234mm
Publication Date: 15 Nov 2024
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781398117488
About Philip MacDougall
Philip MacDougall writes books for Amberley on southern England but with a particular interest in the military and naval complexes that arose in and around South Hampshire (especially Portsmouth) coastal Sussex (especially Chichester) and Kent (especially Medway). As a social historian he is interested in the people and the resources of those areas and the support provided for each of those military complexes. Possibly that interest was first sparked by having a distant ancestor who served as Nelsons secretary during the 1790s and who first joined the future Admiral at the Great Nore anchorage and which lies off North Kent. As well as the author of a number of published books Philip has contributed biographical material on selected naval officers for the widely-acclaimed Dictionary of National Biography. A speaker at events both local and national he offers a wide-range of talks connected with the books he has written.