Index: Issue 73, February 2024

Front Cover: Meet Sarah and Poppy!

Inside Front Cover: The Isaac Newell Heritage Group

Chairman’s Letter, Elaine Gardner.

Medway Archives Centre Report, Helen Worthy.

Their Finest Hour at Medway Archives Centre
Emma Ovenden.

Medway Heritage News, Amanda Thomas.
The Isaac Newell Heritage Group, The Inaugural Meeting
The Dickens Chalet Restoration Project – A Further Update;


Commemorating the 1984 Closure of Chatham Dockyard

Forty Years On. Chatham and its Dockyard:
Regeneration, Repurposing and Renewal.
‘Part One: Early Days and Closure’, Norma Crowe.

Return of a Lutonian: Horace Shirley Remembers, Brian Joyce.

John Grant.
‘Part One: A Chatham Boy Joins the Royal Navy – in 1803!’, Peter Bursey


Rochester High Street, Leonard Dormon

Ker-chunk!, Janet King

Readers’ Letters
Chatham Town Hall Gardens

Inside Back Cover:
Commemorating the Closure of Chatham Dockyard
A Chatham Boy Joins the Royal Navy – in 1803!

Back Cover: The Issac Newell Heritage Group