You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
In 1550 Rochester was the only Medway town. It dominated the river estuary and an agricultural hinterland in which Strood, Chatham and Gillingham were nearby villages, reliant on fishing and farming for their livelihood. By the beginning of the twentieth century these four towns had become an urban conurbation.The key factor in this dramatic change was the growth of the Royal Naval Dockyards at Chatham, home to the English fleet from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century and subsequently the foremost shipbuilding and repair docks in England. The yards at Chatham soon became the largest industrial complex in the south of England.Over the course of the next 350 years, Rochester, Chat...
This work looks at the transformation of Kent's government from a system controlled by a small number of landed families into one in which, on the eve of WWI, a wider range of people from commercial, industrial & professional classes was involved.
This is the sixth volume of the ten-volume history of the county of Kent. Each of the 10 chapters begins by evoking a picture of Kent on the eve of World War I and looks at the changes between then and the present day in the area under construction.
Secret Gillingham explores the lesser-known history of the Medway town of Gillingham in Kent through a fascinating selection of stories, unusual facts and attractive photographs.