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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...
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...
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?
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?
Finally got that video of walk down to HMS PEMBROKE uploaded (in two parts).....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af6k_-XHB5s
Cheers, Mike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af6k_-XHB5s
Cheers, Mike
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.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af6k_-XHB5s
Cheers, Mike
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
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
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