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After the war in 1946 my father, a sergeant in the MPSC, was transfered to Darland camp in Gillingham but as there were no married quarters available there we, as a family, were billeted in the Coastguards quarters on the Isle of ...Read more

A memory of Isle of Grain in 1946 by John Gregory

After the war I used to go to the Salvation Army flicks, almost next to the Odeon. They were free on sat ams I believe. I lived at 191 Gillingham Road till 1955,then went to Canada. Memories of Kerridges, Livingstone Circus, ...Read more

A memory of Gillingham in 1950 by Raymond Knights

The Bredhurst bus did indeed pass the Jezreels but it was a number 38 (not 8). I was at Gillingham Grammar School from 1948 to 1955 and used regularly to catch that bus to my home in Forge Lane, Bredhust. I have vivid ...Read more

A memory of Gillingham in 1948 by Donald Rush

Moved around a bit. Can't remember. But I remember going to school at Buckhorn Weston primary school near Gillingham at the age of 5 and I was May Queen. There were photos. Does anyone out there ...Read more

A memory of Shaftesbury in 1956 by Janetta Maloney

l started my first school in Otham in1935 at the age of four, l was living with my grandparents opposite the school called Primrose Cottage. l then moved with my mother and two brothers and sister to the Vicarage Cottage next to the ...Read more

A memory of Otham in 1930 by Gordon Savage

I have found out my gt gt grandfather ran the New Inn in Brighstone. His name was Job Hawker, his wife was Lucy, she was a Gillingham. I know his residence was the New Inn at the time of his death in 1924. I also have many postcards of Brighstone and Newport around the 1900s.

A memory of Shalfleet in 1900 by Deborah Donhardt

We moved here in 1976 and it was known as the Rochester Estate although some people still referred to them as ''THE DWELLINGS'' .I think they had been recently updated and they were trying to change the image. Consequently the ...Read more

A memory of Walker by James Cooper

I started working at the Plaza just after I left school as rewind boy, later becoming a projectionist, where I stayed till national service. I showed the films at the camp cinema in the evenings in my last 15 months. Demobbed, I ...Read more

A memory of Gillingham by Roy Sinfield

I was brought up in Ireland, but we spent a month of the summer every year with our grandparents, who lived in Frindsbury and, later, Wainscott. Going by the Maidstone and District buses into Strood, Chatham, Rochester ...Read more

A memory of Strood in 1960 by Siobhan Elam

I was born in Braunston in 1941 but was taken to Hellidon as a baby to live with my mother's parents, the Burbidges. In Hellidon, the Methodist church was closed during the war period, so I was taken to the Methodist ...Read more

A memory of Priors Marston in 1941 by Terence Wilcox