Medway’s 19th Century Lady Swimmers
were they early ‘female emancipators’?
Nuthatch Nest
Busy Nuthatches – Knole Park, Sevenoaks It’s currently difficult to get out to watch birds raising their young – so I thought I would share the video I made early […]
Medway Epidemics
and how they helped evolve our ‘health services’ From Leper houses that ‘hid’ victims – Almshouses – Pest House – Quarantine ships – Infirmaries – to St Williams that was […]
Britain’s WW2 ‘secret weapon’!
Was a Rochester woman – Chrystabel Leighton-Porter of 115 City Way, Rochester, was the curvaceous model for ‘Jane’ who, during WW2, appeared six days a week in a strip cartoon […]
The First Children’s Home in Medway? 1615!
Under the 1601 Poor Law passed by Elizabeth I, local authorities were required to make provision for the bringing up of poor orphans of their parish, in some occupation or trade […]
Evelyn Dunbar 1906 – 1960. – artist and “insistent feminist”
This is an account of the ‘local-life’ of Evelyn Dunbar – an outstanding young woman artist / illustrator who lived and partly trained in Medway, and who documented through her art the […]
A dark period in the history of St. Barts that delivered a “burning injustice to women”
The following describes what, by today’s standards, was a very dark period in the history of St. Barts – part hospital, part ‘prison’ – but it may have also strengthen […]
