Gillingham, The Miniature Railway c.1955
Photo ref: G144016
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Photo ref: G144016
Photo of Gillingham, The Miniature Railway c.1955

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As well as the ever- popular ball games, picnics and simply watching the boats go by, the Strand at Gillingham also offered a paddling pool, a boating pool, a children's playground, miniature golf, a municipal swimming pool from the late 1930s, and after 1948, this Lilliputian miniature railway.

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My father would bring me here to the steam railway as we would go into Gillingham and Chatham to shop. I was not more then five at the time I have a picture of me at the start of the run. The time was 1956.