Chatham Historic Dockyard: HMS Cavalier

Built at Cowes on the Isle of Wight, HMS Cavalier was launched in March 1943. She served in the … More

Charterhouse: Tour (4)

Our tour brings us to the Museum which contains items associated with the history of Charterhouse Having finished our tour … More

The RNLI houses its collection of Lifeboats within one of the sheds at Chatham Dockyard. The collection contains an … More

If we now return to the year two thousand and look at what was happening in the eastern arm of … More

Our tour next takes us to the Chapel. The current chapel occupies part of the original monastic chapterhouse and in … More

On our recent trip to East Anglia, I had the opportunity to explore Peterborough’s magnificent Cathedral. The first abbey … More

The Dockyard had an extensive railway network

My last offering on the history of the Fertile Crescent brought us to around 2100BCE with the fall of the … More

Returning to the main quadrangle we come to the Great Hall. The Great Hall dates from around 1540 and … More