If you get the chance with all the joviality going on, Rochester High St is worth a look and around the Castle. Lots of nice old pubs too. All just down the road from Chatham Dockyard.

Chatham area - What's worth a look?
 

Thanks for that. Very useful.

For any others of you who know the North Kent/Chatham area, perhaps you would be so kind as to suggest to us Northerners what's worth checking out in the area.

Rochester bridge itself is an historic landmark and worth a look, Chatham was an important naval base in that last war, and there is a Russian submarine moored in the middle of it.

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Love that black and white of the bridge. ..great photo. Steve

Fort Amherst
 

This is over the road from the Dockyard.

http://www.fortamherst.com

Or if JCB's are more your thing :-)

http://www.diggerland.com/days-out-in-kent/

Wow, I took the kids to diggerland some 16 years ago, my son is now 23, the step daughters, 24 and 22 :D

great fun for all the family.

Capt'n I think your going to need a few spare SD card's with you with all the potential clicking away going on. The Esplanade along Rochester Castle grounds & in front of the Cathedral might make a worthy back drop to a line up of XT's.

If you don't get your nautical fill at the Dockyard the I see the the rusty old wreck The Medway Queen that was, has had a major face lift and is moored up 5 minutes away. She was a big part of the 'Little Ships' evacuation from Dunkirk.

http://www.medwayqueen.co.uk

HMS Montgomery may still be laying in the Medway's estuary, that can be seen from the Strand when the tides out heavily laden with WW2 ammunition.

Problem is, I've just come out of hospital after 7 weeks non weight bearing, following treatment to an old injury, and I am pretty much static and can only walk short distances, up to last week, my presence at this party was hanging in the "maybe", now I know I can attend but I can only go where my car can reach and I am limited to very few places, hiking and climbing of stairs are out of the question for me for a long time.

We'll see what we can do on the day.

Cheers.

That's a real bu55er Capt'n, sorry to hear that. Perhaps an investment in one of those flying drones could help. Then the camera could do the leg work for you.
Take it easy mate.

A drone is in the pipeline but sad truth is you can't fly them close to a person and there are restriction in most public places.

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The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) sets the rules on drones in the UK under what is called an air navigation order.

An unmanned aircraft must never be flown beyond the normal unaided "line of sight" of the person operating it - this is generally measured as 500m (1,640ft)horizontally or 400ft (122m) vertically

An unmanned aircraft fitted with a camera must always be flown at least 50m (164ft) distance away from a person, vehicle, building or structure

An unmanned aircraft fitted with a camera must not be flown within 150m (492ft) of a congested area or large group of people, such as a sporting event or concert

For commercial purposes, operators must have permission to fly a drone from the CAA

This is more of a one stop link to whats around Chatham,

http://www.visitmedway.org/places-of-interest

Not sure if anyone has time but if you take the A229 to Maidstone, ( Bluebell Hill is rumoured to have a ghost at night that hitches a lift at the top, but your passenger will have vanished by the time you get to the bottom :eek: ). There is this to,

http://www.visitmaidstone.com/things-to-do

Captain, I know how you feel , I was so looking forward to this a while back but there's no way on earth I could get there because I'm still awaiting surgery so I'm relying on some lovely photos from you lot!..and I shall look forward to next year!...

If you happen to see this shady looking person lurking around the bikes, don't panic it's just my Dad having a squiz. Goes by the name Ken aswell.

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Might have to ask Ken senior about Ken junior (aka Desert Racer! ) Steve