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I am looking for details of Florence Gammon, formally Dunk from Rye, Sussex. She was married to Herbert Gammon, also from Rye. The children were Arthur Eaton Gammon, 9 and Alice Gammon, 12. Her father was my great great grand uncle, Leaf Temple Dunk, 1834, from Rye.
A memory of Frindsbury contributed by joe dunk
Traffic Jams at Star Hill
I regularly went across this junction on the bus to and from home in Rochester and school at Chatham between 1955 and 1961. The Gaumont cinema was directly across the road from Bourne & Hilliers Dairy. I went to Saturday morning pictures, and ocassionally to the Victor Sylvester Ballroom Dancing classes, also at the cinema. Unlike the photo, Star Hill and the New Road were gridlocked morning and evening for the school run.
A memory of Rochester contributed by Keith Mungham
M2 Bridge worker in St. Bart's Hospital
I remember being in St. Barts Hospital in 1961 or 1962, aged 11 or twelve, to have my appendix removed. At that time there was a construction worker recovering from a very serious injury received while working on the bridge. His whole arm had been removed, leaving him only his right shoulder.I met him during a mass held in the ward and he was amazingly cheerful and determined to stand and kneel as required by the service.
A memory of Rochester contributed by Keith Mungham
Rochester Sweeps Festival and Whitethorn Morris
The Rochester Sweeps festival celebrates the traditional May Day holiday that chimney sweeps used to enjoy. It is a glorious mixture of dancing, music and dressing up with visitors from all over Britain bringing their entertainment to Rochester High Street each year. The festival attracts morris dancers and musicians who are delighted to perform in front of the huge crowds thronging the High Street. Most years the dancers from Whitethorn Morris join in the Rochester Sweeps Festival together with the Whitethorn Band of accordians, melodeons, fiddles and drums. Its a colourful display of red white and blue with lively music and always draws a crowd of onlookers all day long. Fortunately many of the dance venues arranged by the Festival organizers ...read more here
A memory of Rochester contributed by John Howard Norfolk
Extracts From Brompton & Kent books
Brompton Barracks were built in 1804-06, originally for
artillerymen, and became the headquarters of the Royal Engineers
when the School of Military Engineering was founded there in
1812. Although wholly in Gillingham, it was known as the Chatham
School until 1962, when Queen Elizabeth II granted it the ‘Royal’
title. In this picture, the men on parade wear the uniform of the
period, complete with spiked helmet, and the horse-drawn vehicle
standing beside the post box, outside the pillared portico, may await
an officer leaving the building.
An extract from from"Chatham and the Medway Towns Photographic Memories".
Below the memorial inscription over the main arch, the Royal Engineers’ motto ‘Ubique’ (‘Everywhere’), flanks the Latin
inscription ‘Quo Fas Et Gloria Ducant’ (‘Whither Right and Glory Lead’). The triple arch memorial to men of the Corps was
erected in Brompton Barracks in 1860. On the right, a soldier stands guard at the entrance to the barrack square.
An extract from from"Chatham and the Medway Towns Photographic Memories".
One of the most distinctive features of Brompton Barracks is this very unusual
variation of more common equestrian statues, with General Gordon, mounted on a
richly caparisoned camel. The General died in 1885 and this statue, erected in 1890, faces the memorial arch.
An extract from from"Chatham and the Medway Towns Photographic Memories".
The expansion of the dockyard, the building
of permanent military installations and the
garrisoning of large numbers of troops in
the area enabled the population of Chatham
to overtake that of Rochester.
An extract from from"Chatham & The Medway Towns".
In 1933, 70 acres of chalk
downland were acquired by
Chatham and Gillingham
councils to create this
beautiful open countryside
nature reserve between the
two towns. The local wildlife
includes several species of
orchids and butterflies. At
the centre of this picture,
we can see the horses of
travellers whose mobile
homes are among the trees.
An extract from from"Chatham and the Medway Towns Photographic Memories".