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 […]
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 […]
Armistice 1918, the Bells of Rochester Cathedral announce the Peace.
News of the Armistice reaches Medway – at 11:30 am on 11 November 1918, the Bells of Rochester Cathedral rung-out to announce Peace. The Armistice with Germany had been anticipated […]
La Providence – an account of the Huguenot’s arrival in Rochester
La Providence – The French Hospital The tranquillity of the picturesque French Hospital situated off Rochester High Street, belies a distant history of brutality that required French protestants to escape […]
1,000 Rochester women chase a bigamist out of the City.
Bigamist escapes with his life but is hounded out of the City
An amazing story of a first and lasting love.
Did a Rochester marriage help reform a slave trader? Marriage Announcement 12 February 1750 – Mr & Mrs George & Elizabeth Catlett are pleased to announce the marriage of their […]
Lady Jane Grey – beheaded 17 days after the fall of Rochester.
On 12 February 1554, Lady Jane Grey aged 16 or 17 was beheaded. Was her execution related to events that occurred 17 days earlier in Rochester – which could have […]
