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This is my Sheerness & Isle Of Sheppey Pictures and Postcards album. A BIG thanks goes to the people who have allowed me to use their pictures. If you want your old pictures posted get in touch via my guest book. Click the pictures to enter the galleries. Visit http://www.sheppeywebsite.co.uk/forum/index.php for the SheppeyWebsite forum and a chat.

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glenn houghton		04-Jun-2008 18:54
hi i love the pics of leysdown i used to go on holiday all the time when i was a child does anyone have any info on "the witches house" in leysdown my wife thinks im mad but im sure i didn't dream it. any info please contact me glenn.houghton73@virgin.net

Sandie Blacklidge		30-May-2008 16:43
Hi Trevor - I'm an Aussie whose Great Great Grandfather, William Howting, was born in Sheerness in 1847 and came to Australia sometime before 1870. I've just started doing family history research, which resulted in contact with another of William's descendants and she has kindly given me loads of information, including the fact that when she was growing up in Sheerness she was told that William's father, George, helped build the Ship on Shore, so I'm thrilled to have found your website with all the wonderful paintings and photos. To be honest, I knew nothing about Sheerness/Sheppey until very recently but now I'm eagerly checking out all I can find! Thank you so much for giving me the chance to see all these pictures of where one branch of my family came from. It's fantastic!! Best regards, Sandie Blacklidge - email: sb.moto@optusnet.com.au

Guest		21-May-2008 00:34
Trevor. I do have colour slides of boys tech school , and Hipperdrome before they were demolished.How can I transfer them to the web? Derek, camera475@yahoo.co.uk

n p bishop		12-May-2008 16:59
wot a souper site from an ex sheppeyite ex coppers son used to live in medway rd top end of course! in the 60s rose street school was the place about 58-62 but wot became off the old sea mine oppisite the railway station? thanks neville bishop

Kyle		16-Feb-2008 03:42
RE: info or pics of The Broadway, Minster for 1922 or thereabout RE: Bray name. Any info can be sent to kalalinakala@hotmail.com cheers again from Kyle in Canada

Kyle		16-Feb-2008 03:35
Hi all, Just a fantastic site & pics are great ! My grandfather was born in Minster(BRAY) - 1922, lived at ``The Bungalow on the Broadway`` this is only info I have & wish my grandfather was around for me to answer my questions. Anyone with info or pics of the Broadway, Minster for that time I would appreciate it. Cheers from Canada

Bernard Llawton		26-Jan-2008 20:05
What a fantastic site. Even for me who has never been to Sheppey - yet! I found it whilst searching for any information on Warden Bay in the 1960's. Apparently my late father ran a shop there (probably called Oasis stores?) from 1961 until about 1966. I would love to have any information about the people, the place etc at that time and particularly if anyone remembers William and Joyce Lawton.

sharon rickwood		24-Jan-2008 13:08
I was born and bred on the island and i,m stil living here. love this site brilliant to see sheppey,s history in pics

Cheryl Carrington		17-Jan-2008 16:04
I am trying to gain any information I can on a Marie Evelyn O'Dwyer who lived at 19 Noreen Avenue, Minster, Kent in 1948 (she would have been 18 at this time). Her Father was a Builder Edward O'Dwyer. Can anyone help?

Trevor Edwards		08-Oct-2007 18:13
Sure you can Kathy, you should have left an email address.

Guest		08-Oct-2007 13:00
Hi Trevor we have enjoyed looking at your photos and would like to use some of them in the hope street centre,if we have your permission we would of course acknowledge you by name and website, Kathy Gambell Chairman management commitee

kyn		30-Sep-2007 20:56
Hi, i have linked to your site from www.sheppeywebsite.co.uk. Hope you don't mind! Kyn

Richard		29-Sep-2007 05:56
What a great site to see old photos of sheppey.I was born and lived in Queenbourough untill 1971 when my family imigrated to Australia,I remember the steam trains, the horrible chemo smell in queenborough.Anyone remember the Sheldrick family.I have not been able to get back as yet but hope to soon.Keep up the good photos, as they have brought back quite a lot of memories.

Colin Ballard		14-Sep-2007 18:43
Hi Trevor Thank for signing my guest book on my site www.kentandsussexpics.co.uk have just been looking at your excellent site you have some great pictures Many Thanks Colin Ballard

David		27-Aug-2007 12:03
David It was good to see the things I had forgot about the Island. I was born there in 1951. I now live in Portugal and have been away for some 22 years now. Great pictures keep it up. .

Peter		02-Aug-2007 17:25
My aunt was the Methodist Minister at the church in Minster in the late fifties. I remember the old railway track leading out of town, just the stones roadbed no rails, must have gone when Beeching closed the railways. She lived in a rather gloomy victorian Manse nearby. My other aunt had a caravan at Eastchurch where we would stay during summer holidays, we'd walk along the cliff top to Leysdown stopping at a cottage for fizzy red pop with icecream in it. P.

PeterG Howard		31-Jul-2007 18:56
I can remember being taken on a school trip from the Sheerness Technical School for Boys when the prior ferry bridge was being built and writing my name in the wet cement of the left hand tower when coming onto the island. I can remember the one before that when it was hit by a boat and the island was cut of from the mainland for 3 days. PeterG Howard originally from Queenborough now in West Sussex

D. Faulkner		30-Jul-2007 19:35
Lyn, Good to see your memories of Sheppey. Although I came from Sheerness, my best friend through the 1960's was Terry Rawson, who lived next door to Hazel Green in Harps Avenue, so I spent a lot of time in Harps Ave, so probably crossed your path at sometime. I was born in 1947 and went to the Central School. Derek Faulkner

Lyn Kouramanis		28-Jul-2007 23:39
Thank you for this website, it is a lighted path into a past that has been dark for a very long time. Born at 63 Harps Avenue in Minster in 1948, and every day of my teenage life rode my bicycle from Minister through Halfway into Sheerness for school. I worked as most of us did, as a teenage waitress in Leysdown for many years. I earned enough to leave and at seventeen sailed away from London to New Zealand. Never far from a memory, my love for Sheppey has never faded. For better or for worse, everything I am today has it's roots in Sheppey. My ashes will be scattered there, for in the end I am Sheppey and Sheppey is who I am.

Graham		20-Jul-2007 23:06
This is a reply to David. If the days at Sheerness Technical School were the worst of your life, you must have had the pleasure of knowing the Headmaster Mr Barnett. I was at that school in the early to mid 60's. I had a dream to follow my grandfather to sea, and got an interview at a college in London to train. He forbade me to go, but I went anyway and got the place. Then the SOB expelled me in front of the whole school. It was the most traumatic experience of my young life. One of my greatest regrets is not realizing that I could leave anyway and telling him to stuff it! Never mind. It was a great school and there are good photos of it on this site. Graham

j.s.fox		18-Jul-2007 12:15
Trevor,I have now spent several days reviewingthe photographs of Sheppy.I wish to thank you most sincerely for giving me the opportunity of reliving vividly my childhood.I was born at 68 St Georges Ave in 1933 but lived at 105 Victoria Street until becoming an RAF Apprentice in1949.My parents remained until their passing during the Eighties.I have travelled around the world all my working career but revisited regularly whilst my parents were alive.This photogaphic gallery is so alive and I cannot emphasise strongly enough the privilage of reviewing ones early life.Thank you so much.

bill		11-Jul-2007 10:17
Hi, like your page really enjoyed it. One thing missing, I did national service in sheerness, two years and I loved it. I have tried many times to find a mention of the barracks and never have on any webb site. I find this unusual as my regiment must have been important for the economy.Anyway keep up the good work.

reece		27-Jun-2007 19:15
was the iland called devle islad if it was y was it

Tracy nee Shannon		29-May-2007 10:53
My Dad was born and bred on the Isle of Sheppey.He met my Mum there and married there and had my eldest brother there before moving to Australia. You could never get Sheppey out of his blood and his heart. I have visited there three times but it meant a lot more to me the last time I visited in 2006 when we scattered some of his ashes in the sea over there. It was like we were taking him home.

JACK PICKETT		23-May-2007 20:58
I REMEMBER IN THE LATE 60S EARLY 70S HANGING AROUND KS KASINO AND THE DOLFIN CAFE PAUL AND ENA THE OWNERS AT THE TIME WERE GREAT YOU COULD SIT IN THERE ALL DAY WITH A CUP OF TEA WITH FREINDS THEN IN THE EVENING WE WOULD ALL HANG ABOUT THE SHELTERS DOES ANYONE REMEMBER IF YOU REMEMBER ME JACK PICKETT DROP ME A LINE JACKO300@JACKO300.FSNET.CO.UK LOVE THE PICS BRING BACK FOND MEMORIES FOR ME I LEFT THE ISLAND IN 1979 NOW LIVE IN WELL THAY SAY SUNNY CORNWALL

Guest		15-May-2007 16:52
Brilliant site Trev. Did leave the Island for a couple of years, many years ago but, like everyone else - came back.I love looking at all the photos to see anyone I recognise. Keep up the great work, Angie Rogers(nee Washford)

sam		25-Apr-2007 00:48
hello all. i lived in sheppey for nearly 3 years in the late 80s, first in the song of the sea caravan park, bell farm lane minster., then i moved to noreen ave for a while. now im back in spain where i grew up although i was born in farnborough, kent. however id love to get in touch with the friends that i made whilst living there. my name is samantha ward. my friends were... carrol ??? & her 4 children her youngest sons name (peanut)reece thomas. also marion, chris & their 3 sons peter, troy & shane ??? bert, nikki, scott & joe vidler. pash penfold. reece thomas vidler. does any of you kind people know any of them ? muchas gracias for your time. sam.

Mark Goddard		22-Apr-2007 08:54
Congratulations on the site. I lived on Sheppey (Marian Avemue, Minster) from 1960 to 1977 and enclose some pictures that may be of interest to you. The three school photographs are my class at Halfway School in three succesive years 1964 to 1966. The picture of Marian Avenue looking towards Scrapsgate Road dates from around 1961. The picture of me on the bridge would be from around 1964 and shows the link from Marian Avenue to the footpath leading to Sheerness East. The Scrapsgate Road picture was taken on a short visit in 1981 and shows the open fields before the big house building project.

Bonnie Bailey		23-Mar-2007 13:14
I just received the address to your site from a very wonderful lady there in England. I live in Florida, USA and your site gave me my first chance to see where some of my LOFT ancestors were born and died. Thank you so much.

scot		19-Mar-2007 13:44
great site being an islander in m mi thirty's and just moved awayuto australia ,i was explaning to someone about the hollands fairground in sheerness when i was a kid the slide, ghost train and the funhouse inside with the new space-invader arcade machines ! great times have you or do you know of ant sites with any pictures from the 80s again love the site and hi to all the islanders out there . scot

peter tudor:nee ADAMS		18-Mar-2007 23:51
could any kind person on the isle of sheppey have any knowledge of my grandad and grandmum and auntie: job and emily louise adams and their daughter, brenda louise hope adams.? their sons were albert job and george harry adams. I live in Ashford,kent so am easy to get in contact with. thanks for reading this anyway.

Margaret		22-Jan-2007 10:18
Griffiths File. If I put a date on the cards I send to Trevor, it is the date of posting usually, so could be well earlier. Unless I know the date, mum aged 3 for example which would be 1911. Griffiths postcards were still in circulation after the war 1945 onwards.

DAVID MORGAN		15-Jan-2007 23:41
MY NAME IS DAVID MORGAN I LIVED ON THE ISLE OF SHEPPEY UP UNTIL THE YEAR 1981 I NOW LIVE IN HAYES MIDDLESEX I LIVED IN MAIN ROAD QUEENBOROUGH IM IMPRESSED WITH THE SITE I WILL BE LOOKING AT IT AGAIN I DO REMEMBER SOME PEOPLE ID LOVE TO GET IN CONTACT WITH THEM SO IF ANYONE REMEMBERS ME PLEASE CONTACT ME ON davmo33@aol.com LIKE I SAY THIS SITE IS GOOD AND IT IS WELL PUT TOGETHER BUT I LUV TO SEE MORE PICS OF MAIN ROAD ANYWAY KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK...

Fran		21-Dec-2006 11:59
I moved to Warden Bay in the 70's, then to Sheerness and all my kids went to school there. The Harty church, the kids on the beaches, all my friends, christmas, new years day at the clock, Woodys the nightclub, Warden bay hotel. I moved off the island in 1989 and the photos just remind me of the wonderful times from when I lived and worked on the island. I'm now thinking of moving back.

Guest		01-Dec-2006 12:14
WHAT A FANTASTIC SITE !ALLTHOUGH HARSH TIMES A GOOD REMINDER OF HOW VULNERABLE WE ARE ( FLOODS , SNOW ,MONTGOMERY & NAVAL FORTS ) . ARE THERE ANY PICTURES OF THE NORE FORTS , I KNOW THEY WERE DISMANTLED EARLY BECAUSE OF THE VISCINITY AND WERE REGULARY HIT BY SHIPPING .

David		21-Nov-2006 18:12
Sheppey was my home for 31 years: born in Denis Terrace Minster (opposite a tiny chapel I recall) and resident in Abbey View Drive till I married and moved away in 1978. Can anyone remember the Sheerness Technical High School for Boys - the worst days of my life looking back, but evenso what a super education we were given there. My Dad built many houses on the Island: the mist over the marshes can't erase completely such good memories of my childhood and early adult life.

J M Hull		16-Nov-2006 23:43
Interesting to go back in time in your old home town, especially when you now live in Auckland, New Zealand and everything is pretty modern here.

Ron Graham		26-Oct-2006 22:01
How did you come across a picture of my grandfather, Ernest Graham? This was the first time I'd ever seen him.

kelly		26-Oct-2006 15:28
Well I was supposed to be cleaning the house to day, but I stumbled upon this fantastic site and I have been rivieted to my seat all day, and I mean all day, I have looked at every picture they are fantastic keep it up, I wish I had some photos to offer you, I loved the leysdown photos and was surprised at there once being a picturdrome in queenborough, I would be curious to know who the people are in the little boat on the pleasure beach at leysdown, the man is wearing a white cap to one side of his head and they are in a boat marked number 2, as think these people are my grandparents, I also remember the stage 3 night club in leysdown and I also remember the bus station when it was converted into a pub, I wonder if there are any pictures of that about, and I would love to see a picture of the old cinama that was in wood street sheerness, I tried to find pictures before but have never had any joy. I have had a great mornig looking at all these great pictures and I will check back for any updates. Thankyou from Kelly.

Margaret		26-Oct-2006 07:37
Thank you once again for putting more of my grandfather's photo's on the John Griffiths site. i do hope lots of people see them ! Margaret

marion and trevor yorke		21-Sep-2006 03:44
hello there, love the site, i am after any photos of Broad Street (before the flats were built) i grew up there but have no photos.

wendy		24-Aug-2006 16:59
leysdown is a lovely easy family holiday and fits the pocket but i think the police station should be open 24 hrs a day because of growing crime and im afraid sadly is the norm in our scary society police presence would make people feel a bit more at ease do you agree?

Ann Jagger		21-Jul-2006 13:53
I was born at minster and moved north to yorkshire as a baby. My mum still lives there and will be 90 this august, I was looking for info for her year of birth and came across this site. the pictures bring back happy memories of all my holidays visiting grand parents aunts uncles and cousins, golden days on a truly golden isle.

Bob S mith		21-Jul-2006 05:14
HI Trevor Great photo and memories on sheppey,I got some photo of bell farm lane caravan site, I will send them to you. Bob

Guest		03-Jun-2006 17:18
Wonderful place ,,,thanks fer sharing.Truely enjoyed

Guest		23-May-2006 07:30
Well done for your interesting news article. Thank you for mentioning my grandfather John Griffiths. Still finding his cards! Margaret

paul dummott		13-Apr-2006 15:45
Ruth Thomas I have two newspapers (Sheerness Times Guardian)Feb 1953 which have pictures and articles. Let me know your email address and I will send e-mails to you

Ruth Thomas		27-Mar-2006 16:18
I was 11yrs old in 1953 and remember the flood as we had to live upstairs for a week. I am looking for photographs/newspaper cuttings anything so that I can make a book for my children to look through. My name is Ruth Thomas nee Desborough and used to live in Coronation Road.

Katie		13-Mar-2006 00:27
Hi Trevor, My Dad grew up on the Isle of Sheppey and I've visited there many times (we live in Los Angeles). I'm going there in a few weeks time to visit my grandparents and other relatives. I love it there! Katie

Angie		08-Mar-2006 22:09
Just visited the site for the first time,it's brilliant. Really interested in all the bridge pics old and new. Keep up the great work

kyn		12-Feb-2006 23:12
cool site, it's very good you haven't lost interest and update regularly. no pics of montgomerry though. any idea where sheerness pier started?

Bob Corke		10-Feb-2006 17:27
My mother was born in the area in 1916, her name was Louise Eldridge and attended the convent on the mainland. She was great friends with theJoan Ledger, a farmer's daughter. My mother will be 90 on 18th February. She had many cousins, uncles, and aunts. Her mother's maiden name was Dunford. I would be very interested in any information Yours Bob Corke

Guest		24-Jan-2006 23:44
Do you or anyone have photos (inside or out) of the Courthouse in Bluetown. Please contact me johnnyb1999@tiscali.co.uk

darren		11-Jan-2006 15:08
where the football

Dave Horney		02-Jan-2006 21:43
I bought my chalet in 1988 in Leysdown, and always consider it my second home. Seeing your pictures of the past makes it very interesting our Sheppey has changed over the years. Even in the short amount of time I have had the chalet, I have seen changes, including Leysdown church being pulled down, new houses and flats going up, new roads and bridge. So much changes over 17 years.

David		29-Dec-2005 18:14
Hi Trevor Edwards I would like to say Merry Christmas and also have very best New Year 2006 looking forward to see new updates pictures of Isle Of Sheppey :0) From David

Richard Shannon		17-Dec-2005 15:04
Hi Trevor, I have seen this site once before and felt that it was good, more so that like many other visitors, I am a ex Sheppeyite and escaped some 15 years ago, my parents are still there with tow of my family, one in Minster one in Sheerness. I like the prints of the old Dockyard as well as the old Sheppey Queen and Silver Star, brings back many memories - good ones, SBC and the politically correct gang have spoilt these areas Best wishes

John Cooper		10-Dec-2005 11:31
Message for kieran, pleese stop wrighting, it meens moore wreading.

David		06-Dec-2005 20:00
Hi Trevor I would like to know if you have any picture of old war building before the tesco build in I remember I used to hide there when I was young I would like to know if you have any picture of World War near the beach, just before the Tesco was build on top of it thank you for helping Kind Regards David

Nicholas Sands		26-Nov-2005 00:23
Hi there, i came across you're site some while ago. I'm born and bred a Swampie, but left the island some 12 and a half years ago once i'd finished at the Comp. Do you have any pictures of the Really nasty snow storm that hit in the mid-late 80's that caused the island to be snowed in and the army having to airlift food over the swale. And of the Hurricane that left a swathe of destruction through out most of kent.. I keep trying to tell people that the snow we get these days is nothing like when i was a kid and they dont believe me.

Trevor Edwards		25-Nov-2005 11:57
Well 'kieran', are you complaining because you can't understand it. Out of your three words, two are spelt wrong. Your "to much wrighting" should read "Too much writing". I'm sorry you don't like the comments people leave here, but many others find them informative and helpful. If you really don't like too many words, then please feel free, to not visit here anymore. Oh no! I've just realised, I've added more words. Sorry.

kieran		25-Nov-2005 10:31
to much wrighting

ken49		16-Nov-2005 22:34
I was brought up on Sheppey and some of these photos rekindle memories from I don't know where. The penny amusements, Burtons where I bought my first suit, Boots where I bought my first camera. I knew most of the pubs too.

Linda Allen		11-Nov-2005 15:05
Fantastic pictures, I was born in Minster hospital and lived there till I was 15, though I only moved to Maidstone which is 25 miles away! Some of my family still live on the island and my sister is buried at Half Way Cemetry, while my brother is buried in the old cemetry near the Abbey in Minster. I am now retraining and studying to teach English as a foreign language, and have been looking for a picture of my old school Holy Trinity in sheerness (the school has been demolished and is now a car park - though the church still stands). I went to school in about 1953, and then went onto the grammar school in Sittingbourne in 1964. Fantastic pictures, brings back wonderful memories - but life is not the same there now, most of the areas I played in have been built on though the 'Bunny bank' at the Glen is still there, and we still go blackberrying every autumn. Thanks very much for the memories! Linda Allen

marg		13-Oct-2005 01:18
Margaret Thomsen Thank you for your wonderful photos.my great great grandfather Thomas Malden was a guard on the railway and was killed in some sort of accident. He is buried in the Halfway Cemetry. As I live in Australia it was wonderful to see what the aera is like. We are coming over to the UK next year and will visit the area.

george		30-Sep-2005 15:40
hi you know the jetty at sheerness beach? when was that built and what for? if you know, i would be really grateful if you could tell me by email. thanks

Christine Mackinnon		10-Sep-2005 17:08
Looking at all these photos brought back so many memories of when I was a child spending my summer holidays at Leysdown.My parents took me there every year. We used to stay on Vanity Farm and my nan would come with us. I was about 5 years old when I first started going there.Thank you once again for bringing back such happy memories to me.

Trish Guglielmino		04-Sep-2005 23:12
Hello Susan Duff I am related to the a family from Kent. Alexander Duff originally came from York and was an Inspector of Fitters at the DockYard. He lived with wife Annie, children Thomas, James, Muriel, Jane, Adela and Cyril in Gillingham. He died in 1905 aged 55. His sisters Isabella and Eleanor Duff also moved to Gillingham and worked as dressmakers. Any connection? Trish Guglielmino, Melb. Australia

DAVID		02-Sep-2005 12:57
I WOULD LIKE TO PURCHASE PRINTS OF THE RAILWAY , ARE THEY FOR SALE?

hayley		30-Aug-2005 02:36
i live in minster. i was born in london. 1991. but moved here. i love it here. nice pics :-)

Carole		16-Aug-2005 13:00
Hi Trevor, I was born in Sheerness in 1943. I came across your great pictures while looking for some of the flood in 1952. I am writting stories of my childhood in Sheerness to be passed down to future generations by my Granddaughter Hannah Webb. I have not found pictures of the flood yet, but did find one of the old steam engins my family used to ride to Sittingbourne on. I have lived in the USA for 42 years now, and the last 32 in Ohio. I must record my memories so that future generations will know ' There once was an English woman' and will know how it was in post WWII in Sheerness. You must be my brothers age, his name is Malcolm Lobban. Thanks again for the pictures, Carole Schoonover,Stoutsville, Ohio, USA

Guest		13-Aug-2005 11:54
Hi,i live on the island in queenborough and if anybody in america wants to swap lives then just let me know

Bob White		29-Jun-2005 06:06
Hi Trever, When I was a boy I used to live accross the water, Southend and look over towards Sheerness and often wonder what it was like. Well now I know, great gallery and very nicely presented --- Well Done Bob

john pullen		15-Jun-2005 20:46
trev Not only the most original and interesting gallery on pbase, you really have an eye for a photo. From wildlife to people and scenery all superb.well done keep it up.

Sue		09-Jun-2005 05:08
Hi, I really like your photo's. I have lots of old ones stashed away somewhere. Must get them out and share them. I was born in Sheerness and came to Australia in 1962. I was 10 years old. My Dad used to work at the Sheerness Dockyards which I think is Bluetown. I lived in Halfway Road, Sheerness and was born in our house. My name is Susan (Duff). Would anyone have a picture of the Holy trinity School in Sheerness? It's not there anymore, just a big carpark now. It was right beside the Holy Trinity Church. My Mum often talks about the "Flood". I was just 2 years old at the time. I am so glad that the old "wreck" is still there. What would we do without it? Thankyou Ron Graham for posting me a link to this web site. I'll check back often.

Ron Graham		07-Jun-2005 22:51
Thank you for these photos, a wonderful trip down memory lane for me. Lived in Raneleigh Road in the early 50's before migrating to Australia. Can clearly remember the floods of 1953 although I was 6 years old.

samantha		01-Jun-2005 20:31
do you have anymore pictures of sheerness high street. especially around boots and the central pie shop etc .

Jeff		23-May-2005 22:25
Hello I'm french and one of my friends owns a boat called "Sheppey Queen" for 5 years. It must be about 60 years old. She's really in love with it and I think you couldn't make anybody happier than if you knew stories about its previous life.... And any old picture would be the greatest present. In the gallery: Isle of Sheppey Multi Cards, picture: Isle.of.Sheppey.1982, Graham's comment talks about a boat "Sheppey Queen"... Is it the same? If you know more about it, please send me an e-mail at jfoxx[at]club-internet.fr Thanks

David		21-May-2005 22:59
hi I am David Lister I used to live in Sheerness about 10 years ago my familys still live in sheerness well now I moved in Sunderland with my wife and I always goto Sheerness every two years summer see familys I see that everything changing in Isle of sheppey it look like the Isle of sheppey getting improvement I like your pictures it looook great excellent :) I am looking forward again to see Isle of Sheppey in 2006 NEW Bridge hope not too scary :(

helene		20-May-2005 10:02
Hello, I'm picture editor for the magazine Point de Vue and we would like to publish some of your pictures. Can you tell me if it's possible to get them and how? Thank you

joanne buck		20-May-2005 09:05
hi i am joanne buck i used to live here about 10 months ago and i miss it so much well i am so bored now i live in london and i have a boyfriend down sheerness so i am really happy i have loads of mates down there aswell i miss them loads....

margaret		08-May-2005 08:22
I like your new high-lighted background

Molly Underwood		21-Mar-2005 03:23
Ex Sheppeyite living in Victoria BC. Really enjoyed your gallery. Would be nice to see some more pictures of the High street and surrounding area if available. Left Sheerness in the mid seventees been back several times to see family still living there. After seeing your pictures might be time for another visit home. Brought back some wonderful memories. Keep the pictures coming! Molly Underwood nee Sellen.

Trevor Edwards		11-Feb-2005 16:42
This message moved from the old Sheppey gallery: From: Paul Cornelius(newcor@mail.dodo.net.au) Date: 18-Nov-2004 20:59 Hello Trevor, Thank you for putting these pictures together. I have really enjoyed looking at them. Although originally from South Wales, I lived in the Glen, Minster, before we emigrated to Australia in 1972. I was a schoolteacher at Borden Grammar School. I was sent the site address by Jean Utting of Sheppey, as I am a regular visiter to her site, neighboursreunite. Cheers Paul

samantha		10-Feb-2005 23:11
wow what wonderful pictures . i have only lived on the island for 3 years where as my partner has lived here all his life. i work in the high street and am so interested about the history of this island .thankyou so much.

Jim		27-Jan-2005 03:53
Wow, what a great gallery of photos. My great great grandfather, Thomas Gardler, left Minster in 1853 and came to the states by way of North Carolina, then on to Alabama and then to Mississippi where he enlisted in the Confederate Army and fought in the American Civil War. He was captured by the Union army on 29 April 1863 at a battle in Fredericksburg, Virginia. After he signed the oath of allegiance to the United States on May 3, 1863, he returned to Minster to live until September of 1870 when he departed again for the United States. This time to Philadlephia, Pennsylvania where he started a family. I have discovered so many things about my family history over the years but your pictures have given me a visual aspect of where my family were born and raised. Thanks for posting these pictures!!! Here is a link to Thomas Gardler within my family tree online. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jjflawless&id=I450

Al Wilkinson		19-Jan-2005 19:42
I know I've been in touch with you Trev but, having finally got through all those photos, it just makes me realise just how good Sheppey used to be. I was raised in the rough grounds of Blue Town and had an eventful childhood. I even remember managing to walk along Blue Town pier during the freeze of '63 after my mother forbid me to go out in the cold. The photos bring it all back. It brings me closer to home from my abode here in Bavaria. Thanks for a great site and lots of memories. Keep up the good work. Al Wilkinson

Guest		19-Jan-2005 02:31
I grew up in Sheerness in the late 70's/early 80's and even then it maintained some of its older character. I spent some of the best years of my life playing in the fairground and splashing around in the paddling pool. It is such a shame that Sheerness has lost its charm, many happy memories looking through the pictures though. Thanks for making these pictures available to see, my mum and my nan are going to have a field day looking through them. Thanks again!

Mauro DiCicco		10-Dec-2004 15:41
I want to thank you for posting these pictures on the web. I was born in Sheerness in 1972 and I moved to the states when I was 3 months old. I am now 32 and have traveled to Sheerness many times to visit my Nan and Aunts. My last trip was during Christmas 2004. I will be returning in 2005. Sheerness is my home away from home and it's the place I go to to get away from it all. Your pictures help with my "home sickness" in between trips. Thanks for making these pictures available on the web.

Paul Cornelius		18-Nov-2004 21:19
Thank you once again for being able to view these pictures. We lived in Minster and remember when the train didn't stop at the Sheerness station, and almost ended up on the beach.I looked for s picture of an old watering hole in Minster. The Kings Arms. I think I got pretty close when I looked at the picture of Minster Hill.

a local school		13-Oct-2004 07:55
I am writing to say thank you for such lovely memories of the Isle of Sheppey. Our school looks at their local area and as the children are only 6-7 years old photos are the easiest way for them to see the changes,many landmarks are still with us today,like the town clock,so the children are able to identify areas fairly quickly.Also I hope it will spark some of them to continue,maybe later in life,to delve into this islands colourful past.I myself have lived on the island nearly all my life and looking through the photos have brought back some happy memories,gosh I feel old!!

northstar37		29-Sep-2004 14:19
I worked on a ship with a man from Isle of Sheppey once. I always wondered what it looked like.

Guest		06-Sep-2004 21:05
What a clever idea for a gallery. A sort of social history of where you live.

Peter De Rycke		29-Aug-2004 13:56
Very original work Trevor .. i'm planning a postcard gallery too with the 40 cards i already have on Ostend .. just a starter collecting you see ;-)) Regards, Peter ( new: My Crete albums )

Dave		22-Aug-2004 17:18
Thank you very much for sharing your now huge collection of Sheppey pictures, what a treat for the ex-pats. Your first postcard of the old Hippodrome shows where I grew up No. 46 the Broadway. I was most interested to see the photos from the top of the clock. I hadn't realised that Sheerness was being gentrified. Sort of like putting lipstick on a pig but its a goog start. I'll have to find that book you mentioned, "Time on Sheppey". With your gallery and the IOS SC webcam I am really able to feel in touch. Once again thanks for sharing your collection.

R Betts		16-Aug-2004 20:29
A lot of old photos of the Island are entitled "An Unknown Paradise". How right they were. I've always said how great it would be to have a time machine just for Sheppey, I guess your site is as close to that as we can get. Thanks very much, it's brilliant.

Amanda		05-Aug-2004 16:29
I always thought Sheerness was a dump.

Steve C		02-Aug-2004 19:16
Can't believe I can sit in my office in North Carolina and look at so many pictures of my home town!!!!! I lived a few streets away from the seafront so many of these pics are of places I went routinely. Thanks so much.

D.Betts		31-Jul-2004 11:32
excellent, enjoyed it very much !

Margaret		30-Jun-2004 14:55
I was so pleased to see your Gallery. Both my grandparents lived in Sheerness, and I had so many trips and holidays there from 1935 onwards, from Gillingham. Once across the Bridge, or a voyage in the paddle steamer from Chatham, that was the way to freedom !!

Guest		24-Jun-2004 08:14
brill pic's of memorabilia (have to meet up some time)

bygaspo		27-May-2004 20:04
Great gallery that really captures the subject. Well done. Regards Bygaspo.

John Whitney		15-Feb-2004 17:01
Some nice shots that brought back some memories! I worked in Sheppey for over a year in 1980 when the new sea wall was built at Beach Road. This was just after some serious floods took place and was part of the raising of the Thames Flood Defences that took place all along the Essex, Kent coasts downstream of the Thames Barrier.

Claudia Almanza		08-Dec-2003 21:54
Hello everybody, I am a mexican who has been in Sheppey last October, my boyfriend has moved there lately and maybe I�ll move with him next year in Sheerness, I liked very much that place, even the weather is totally diferent that the one We have here in Mexico. One of the things I liked more was the town clock.. so see you soon in Sheerness!

John Reid		06-Nov-2003 18:08
Patrick put me onto your site as I am also an ex Sheppeyite now living in Toronto. Well done for some great shots of where we grew up.

Guest		06-Nov-2003 07:05
Nice one Trevor (and yes, I do believe you). Thanks for correcting it! I'm from Sheppey as you may have guessed and was baptised in that church so felt compelled to let you know its correct name. I moved to Los Angeles almost 14 years ago and did a quick search for the island on the web last night and was very pleased to see your great photos. Thanks again and all the best, Patrick

Trevor Edwards		05-Nov-2003 18:14
Cheers Patrick, you spotted my deliberate mistake then? I throw one in now and again to see if anyone notices ....... honest!

Patrick		05-Nov-2003 04:40
Hello, Thanks for posting these photos Trevor. Just one correction though, the image of Flood damage at Trinity Church should actually be titled "Flood damage at SS Henry & Elizabeth Church" (it's the Catholic Church on the seafront). Thanks again for posting these images. Regards, Patrick

karas hall		06-Sep-2003 15:27
I think your pictures are tremendous. Makes me want to hop on a plane and come to England this afternoon!

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