On 31 March 1984 more than 7,000 skilled workers at Chatham Dockyard lost their jobs, as well as another 10,000 people in supporting industries. With them went the Kent town's long history of ...

The closure of Chatham Dockyard on 31 March 1984 brought to an end more than 400 years of shipbuilding and naval tradition, but three decades on what is the legacy that was left behind?

It’s exactly 50 years since thousands of Chatham Dockyard workers gathered to celebrate the launch of the submarine Okanagan. As they posed for this photograph on September 17 1966, they did not ...

The Historic Dockyard Chatham should be on everyone's radar... or sonar. The Kent attraction is simply stupendous. Honestly. I've spent 20 years writing about the cultural spaces of London ...

A young woman who became the first apprentice at Chatham Dockyard in the 1970s is one of the women featured in a new exhibition due to go on show this week. Hidden Heroines - The Untold Stories of ...

"Mind your heads!" said the boiler-suited guide, grabbing a shiny horizontal bar and swinging expertly through a low porthole doorway, followed by our group of six. There was a resounding crack ...

The story of the 90-gun Namur is one of the highlights of Command Of The Oceans interactive galleries AMID all the ropemaking at Chatham's Historic Dockyard a fascinating new yarn is unfolding.

A historic Kent dockyard is launching a new film location tour this summer. The Historic Dockyard Chatham has hosted several ...

Between its opening under Elizabeth I in 1567 and its closure under her namesake in 1984, Chatham Dockyard, on the Medway in Kent, delivered more than 500 of the ships that built the British Empire.

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Terry Lewis (top left), Eileen Griffin (centre) and Alex Routen (bottom) have fond memories of the dockyard The closure of Chatham Dockyard on 31 March 1984 brought to an end more than 400 years ...