Category: Blog
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Jezreel’s Tower: Medway’s Missing Landmark
The fascinating story of Gillingham’s original grand design and Medway’s missing landmark, Jezreel’s Tower.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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An Autumn weekend in Antwerp
How we spent 48 hours in this buzzy Belgian city.
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A tour of Whitstable’s wonderful, whimsical street art
Appreciating the fun, clever and heartfelt street art that abounds in this quirky seaside town.
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All aboard for the Maunsell Forts! A spectacular sailing trip on the X-Pilot
A captivating trip to the Maunsell Forts aboard the X-Pilot, the Maunsell Forts’ connections to pirate radio and Doctor Who, and another encounter with our old nemesis, Admiral Michiel de Ruyter.
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J.B. Fletcher comes to Medway! A review of the cult smash hit, Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote
Why I love Jessica Fletcher, and my review of the cult smash hit, Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote, at St Margaret’s Church, Rainham
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Strictly Sicily: Dancing our way from Medway to beautiful Italy
How I went from dancing in Gateshead to dancing in Maidstone with The Man of Kent, and our dancing holiday in Sicily.
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Build, Demolish, Defuse: A great day at the Royal Engineers Museum
Did you know that a tank can build a bridge? Did you know there’s a piece of the Berlin Wall in Gillingham? Or that the Royal Engineers won the FA Cup? I learned all this and more at the Royal Engineers Museum.