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Dresden's post-office opened in 1854, [21]: 56 col.1 and the first permanent crossing over the Sydenham, a wooden swing-bridge, was erected in 1864. [7]: 11–12 By 1865, Dresden was starting to enlarge, with an estimated population of 500; [26] its principal business was the shipping of squared-up timber, staves, and cordwood. [27]
The Royal Canadian Air Force selected the community of St. Margarets for the location of a radar station in the early 1950s to close a key gap in air defence coverage. RCAF Station St. Margarets was constructed on what was then called the Old Yellow Road, today Highway 11, approximately 5 km (3.1 mi) northwest of the county line between Northumberland County and Kent County and approximately ...
The News moved to a nearby building at 12 New Road Avenue, Chatham. A Rochester branch office, in the High Street near the Cathedral Green, closed in the early 1960s; the Gillingham branch office shut two decades later. In summer 2008 it was announced the New Road Avenue office would shut and the News would move to Gillingham Business park ...
The vehicles were initially parked up next to the entrance into the Theatre Royal Cafe, a popular restaurant in the Chatham Town Hall, on Whiffens Avenue, and then started to travel along Military Road in Chatham, and onward to Rochester, Strood and Frindsbury, where sweets, chocolate, posters, badges, plastic hats, leaflets, stickers and T ...
On 28 February 1913, forty-six years to the day after the first recommendation to establish a military postal unit, the Army Post Office Corps and proposed Territorial Army Postal Service joining the Royal Engineers' Telegraphists when they were formed into the Royal Engineers, Special Reserve (Postal Section) and the Royal Engineers ...
The formal layout of the gardens reflected the need for military order, somewhat at odds with the fashion at the time of creating Capability Brown style landscapes. [1] On the 1909 O.S. map, it shows the name of the road from Gillingham to Chatham passing through Brompton and the Lines, named as 'Brompton Road'. [5]
The Royal Marine Barracks, Chatham was a military installation occupied by the Royal Marines and located at the Gun Wharf at Chatham in Kent. The barracks were situated immediately to the south of the Dockyard, just above the Ordnance Wharf. The barracks were closed in 1950 and demolished in 1960.
Both the School of Military Engineering and the School of Bomb Disposal returned to Chatham in 1949. [5] During the 1950s, Harper Barracks was the home of a Royal Signals training regiment. [6] In 1959, the barracks became the home of 38 Engineer Regiment, who would remain there for nearly half a century. [7]