Chatham, Kent

The 1960s in Chatham

I was born in Chatham in 1951 and lived there up untill I got married when I was 19. I can remember a pub on Military Road called the Three Brothers, I think. We used to meet there before going to the Dockyard for the weekly dance and disco. We also used to go ballroom dancing again in the High Street... [more]

Short Stay in Chatham

For 3 months May - Aug 1969, I lived in the upper floor flat over the Manfield shoe shop. Next door was WH Smith. My husband worked in the shoe trade but not in the shop below. He worked further along the High Street at another shop owned by the British Shoe Corporation. From the kitchen window at the back of... [more]

Where has Chatham gone?

I was born in Chatham in 1934, after my national service in 1955 nothing had changed but where has my Chatham now? The town I loved is no longer here. There were 30 pubs in the High Street, now gone, no Empire no Theatre Royal, no picture houses.

Trying to find

My Father left Kent to go to Australia with the little brother movement in 1916. His name was Lenard Hurbert Jeffery, and I was wondering is there any way of tracing his home address?

Chatham and the Medway Towns Photographic Memories

The virtual absence of motor traffic suggests that this photograph may have been taken in 1956, during the Suez Crisis petrol rationing, which did not end until the following year. The restrained architecture of The Eagle Tavern contrasts with that of both the Town Hall and the Chatham Constitution Club on the right of this picture.

Chatham and the Medway Towns Photographic Memories

New in 1772, the road was built to bypass congested town centres from Star Hill, Rochester to the bottom of Chatham Hill. Fort Pitt Hill separates Rochester's Fort Pitt Gardens from Chatham's Victoria Gardens, where the town's 1920 war memorial stands in front of St Andrew's Presbyterian church, behind which are chalk quarries and the naval memorial.

Kent Revisited Photographic Memories

Sitting lofty and proud on the road to the famous dockyard, this majestic building, built in 1900, was once the centre of the town's administration until it moved to Strood during an amalgamation of Medway councils. Now it is known as the Brook Theatre. The architect who designed it, G E Bond, also built the Grade II listed Chatham Theatre Royal... [more]