A Geordie writes about her adopted home in Kent
Latest posts
- Going to the match in a not-so-dirty old town: Salford City v Gillingham
Watching the Gills play Salford City FC away, soaking up football art at The Lowry, and a visit to the National Football Museum. - Jezreel’s Tower: Medway’s Missing Landmark
The fascinating story of Gillingham’s original grand design and Medway’s missing landmark, Jezreel’s Tower. - Mr Kipling’s poem about Medway
For World Poetry Day, here’s Rudyard Kipling’s poem, ‘The Dutch in the Medway’, featuring Admiral Michel de Ruyter’s famous raid of June 1667. - Private Gardiner’s execution on the Great Lines, with revolting details (sorry, Mr Dickens!)
The murder of Sergeant Patrick Feeney, the execution of Benjamin Gardiner on the Great Lines, and the career of Britain’s busiest hangman, William Calcraft. - Cat Fight, Coopers Chase, Cockie and more: a year of reading in Kent
Five books set in Kent, and other things I read in 2025.