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The Gillingham bus disaster occurred outside Chatham Dockyard, Kent [1] on the evening of 4 December 1951. A double-decker bus ploughed into a company of fifty-two young members of the Royal Marines Volunteer Cadet Corps , [ 2 ] aged between nine and thirteen.
Pages in category "1950s in Kent" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. ... Gillingham bus disaster; S. 1954 Swissair Convair CV-240 crash; T.
Centurion AVRE (Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers) The 'Ravelin Building', which was designed by Major E.C.S. Moore, Royal Engineers and was completed in 1905 at a cost £40,000, [1] was originally used as electrical engineers' school before becoming the home of the museum in 1987. [2]
Gillingham (/ ˈ dʒ ɪ l ɪ ŋ əm / ⓘ JIL-ing-əm) is a town in Kent, England, which forms a conurbation with neighbouring Chatham, Rochester, Strood and Rainham. It is the largest town in the borough of Medway and in 2020 had a population of 108,785.
July 11 – Gillingham Fair fire disaster, Kent, England, killed 15 when firefighting demonstration went wrong. September 20 – Study Club nightclub fire , Detroit, Michigan, killed 22. December 31 – Glen Cinema disaster , Paisley , Scotland, killed 71.
The University of Kent is a 'Lead Sponsor' of the Academy, because of its ability to help provide support for the Academy's science specialism. [7] Medway Council is the co-sponsor. [8] From 2017, Chatham Grammar School for Girls and Brompton Academy's sixth-forms have merged into one big sixth-form named the University of Kent Academies Trust ...
1918–1950: The Municipal Borough of Gillingham, part of the Municipal Borough of Rochester, and the Municipal Borough of Chatham ward of St Mary. 1950–1983: The Municipal Borough of Gillingham. 1983–1997: The Borough of Gillingham, and the Borough of Swale ward of Hartlip and Upchurch. 1997–2010: The Borough of Gillingham.
Gillingham Green was a small village; [1] eventually it, too, was swallowed up, and the name of the whole settlement changed to Gillingham. Officers' houses were built within the confines of the Barracks and at Brompton where Mansion Row, Prospect Row and Garden Street now form part of the Brompton-Lines conservation area.