Medway Towns?

[Wuzzle]

The decaying Russian nuclear sub in the docks is rather impressive.

[Royce44]

I'm in lordwood. My missus drives a steel grey mk5 GTI in case you see it :-)
I drive a boring work car.

As per the previous comments. I love living here but hate that I technically live in chatham.

[tr7v8]

I'm in Lordswood as well. Quite like it here apart from the odd rented house wit PITA neighbours. Easy commute to London & onwards. Great countryside 10 mins away.

[TomG]

tr7v8 said:

I'm in Lordswood as well. Quite like it here apart from the odd rented house wit PITA neighbours. Easy commute to London & onwards. Great countryside 10 mins away.

Likewise and the same

[Gixer]

Exactly this. I now tell people I live near Maidstone at the top of BlueBell Hill if they ask. As for Chatham, only time I go there is if I have to collect something from Best St Post Office.

Few weeks a go I was doing some work for a 91 year old in Ditton. He worked in the dockyard and mentioned he'd like to go back to Chatham town center and see how it has changed. I said to him not to go back and remember it how it once was...

[Tahiti]

There are some rough areas, but you obviously choose not to live in them.

To be fair though, there are plenty of rough areas around the country!

[Hol]

This Lordswood thing is a bit coincidental?

I'm 4th generation Walderslade and my kids are the 5th..

[Brinyan]

Isn't this just the UK in general? You get very smart areas & those that are the opposite, plus all ranges in between.
Did a job for a mate a couple of weeks back, who now lives in Canvey Island. Never been there before. Within 5 minutes of arriving, at 10am, I'd seen 2 separate people boozing on their doorsteps, a full on argument on the pavement & a woman in her 70's, with the brightest, shortest blue dress, blondest hair & skin (of which there was plenty), the colour of a tangerine. An average morning in Canvey, perhaps?

[vikingaero]

Wuzzle said:

The decaying Russian nuclear sub in the docks is rather impressive.

S'not a nuclear sub. It's diesel electric. The owner still takes groups on board for visits. Very interesting experience on something that hasn't suffered "touristification".

[ex-matelot]

Finally got that video of walk down to HMS PEMBROKE uploaded (in two parts).....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af6k_-XHB5s

Cheers, Mike

[Hol]

ex-matelot said:

Finally got that video of walk down to HMS PEMBROKE uploaded (in two parts).....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af6k_-XHB5s

Cheers, Mike

You were based here before I was born, so I imaging it has changed a lot.

[ex-matelot]

Yes, I didn't know what to expect really. I don't think I had spent much time in the town at all really. I'm sure I had a drink in one of the pubs not far from the station but it's probably been pulled down. I know they gave me a night sailing aboard HMS JAGUAR which still had hammocks and that fits in with the wiki entry which says the ship sailed in January '69 on a world cruise.

I could have finished that song in part two if I'd been thinking quick enough :

The autumn leaves
Are on the steps here
At HMS Pembroke
.....In Chatham, Kent.

I'm glad I made the effort though, as I'd often thought of going back.

Cheers, Mike