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Sheerness Dockyard

Including the piers and ships.

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Dockyard from upper deck of pier	T-Scan 038rs	UC5 Submarine 1	UC5 Submarine 2	Sheerness Pier
Train Station ?	Gunnery School	The Pier & Launch	Scan_066	Scan_065
Scan_064	Dockyard Church	Fishing off the pier	Olau Hollandia	Sheerness-03_b
Dockyard Fort	The pier sunset	Flood damage to Sheerness Blue Town pier 1897	Pier and Warships	Dockyard
Interior Dockyard Church	Gun Wharf & Fort	The Pier	Dockyard Church	Entrance to docks

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A. Carey		07-Feb-2012 15:15
Nice site, very interesting pictures: I am interested in any information regarding John Carey who married Mary Saunders in Sheerness and had a son called Charles Saunders Carey. Charles was baptised in 1796, am trying to find out where John came from and any other info. Many thanks

Guest		04-Jan-2012 14:45
Hi, Great site. Tracing my ancestors back. Have George Stockwell who entered shipyard 1744 as apprentice. 1751 finished shipwright apprenticeship. Later became a Quarter Man and Rounder! K

Guest		25-Dec-2011 22:53
Looking for relations of edvin victor young born 1898 in cross street sheerness any information would b greatful Thankyou. Sylvia Willson. ( nee young )

sheila Foakes		24-Sep-2011 13:43
Hi I am look for a William Herbert born 1832 married to Sarah and lived 24 clyde st, was a rigger at the docks and had 5 children, would be please if anyone has any information or how to look up who worked at the docks Thanks

Rob Watts		02-Aug-2011 15:10
Hi Trevor, What a great collection of pictures! I was wondering whether you might authorise the use of some of your pictures (from around the mid 1800s) for the BBC 2 television programme Coast as we are currently doing a piece on the scorpions down at the dockyards. They apparently settled there around this time after coming over on cargo ships. Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you, Rob Watts

Mike Lawson		01-Jun-2011 11:14
Thanks for the great images. My Gx4 grandfather Thomas Brightman was a labourer at His Majesty's Dockyard between 1798 & 1800 and a warden between 1800 and 1820.

P . Lawson		15-Jan-2011 13:39
The " Dockyard Rush " was an important weekday feature of Sheerness life. Do any photographs exist to remind me of my boyhood giggles at this phenomena ?

Ray Hammond		28-Dec-2010 20:10
Can you help please? Many of my Ancestors with the surname HAMMOND, were born and lived in the Minster, Sheerness area during the 1700 - 1800 perioud. Some were born in the Blue Houses. I would be very interested to know if there are any HAMMOND family surviving today who may be related. Many Thanks Ray Hammond

alan hammond		22-Jun-2010 00:30
hi trevor its me again, just to let you know my grandfather was bulldog hammond a school teacher at blue town school for over 30 years,he died in 1935,,,,alan hammond

Judy McCabe		09-May-2010 12:47
Just discovered my 3x gt grandfather John Miles was the pier master 1861 to 1886. He lived at 43 chapel st, blue town sheerness, so lovely to see pictures of the pier.

Virginia		19-Apr-2010 08:45
It would be great if people could hunt out their old photos which show our social history and allow the heritage centre to make copies so that they don't feel as if they have to donate their originals.I'm looking for images which can be used on cards to sell at the heritage centre. If we all do our little bit, as Jenny and Ian are doing, then our past will not be lost.

Alison		31-Mar-2010 21:56
Brilliant photos! My family were ship builders in the dockyard from about 1810 to 1900 and lived in Sheerness. My family name is Tull and i am really interested in seeing some of the early pictures and getting some idea of their life there

derrydale		09-Oct-2009 09:40
My name is Derek Way and I was born in East Lane Bluetown in 1950 although I was raised in Miletown. does anyone have any old photographs of East Lane especially containing nan BLACK who resided at No.5 and previously No.26? I am researching my family history and am interested in BLACK, RILEY, SHANAHAN, BULL and DULY. Best Wishes, Derek

Liz Wilson		08-Sep-2009 17:07
Re Brian Swinburne,We also lived in the Garrison from 1947 until 1953 and I remember him . We were the Logue Family. Love the site Trevor ,how great the Island used to be.

Robin Amos		08-Aug-2009 12:35
Hello, I am working as a volunteer at the Blue town heritage centre- and am currently looking for anything related to the dockyards (the focus of the centre is the dockyard). If it would be possible for anyone to provide memorabilia or stories about the dock to the heritage centre, please contact me at Robinamos@aol.com. I was also wondering whether it might be possible to authorise the use of some of these beautiful pictures- for the heritage centre. If possible it would also be great if anyone could suggest any socities or unions of dockyard workers who worked at Sheerness.

matthew		08-Jun-2009 14:27
wonder if you can help me i am the present owner of the duke of clareance trading estate do you have any photos of the estate before it was industrial units ?

chamberlain		22-May-2009 16:19
The site of the car wash was a pub called The Druids Arms until it was replaced in the early 70s by a new one called The Admirals Walk hope this some help

phil		16-May-2009 14:06
is the car wash in blue town using the exsisting pub building that was once there and if not is it on the exact place please help

Lesley Rea nee West		27-Apr-2009 06:20
Thanks for your pictures. My GG Grandfather was born in Bluetown Sheerness in about 1802 but left there about 1810. I have never seen anything about the place before. I believe that he was baptised in the Dockyard church but I am not sure if it was the one in the photos. Wow, if it was. His name was John West and his father came from Chatham with his family. John was the only member of his family born in Sheerness.

Trevor Howland		27-Feb-2009 16:20
My dad Robert Ernest Arthur Howland, was a chargehand shipwright on Admiralty Floating Dock (AFD) 22, Sheerness Dockyard. When the dockyard closed in 1959 AFD 22 was towed to Rosyth Scotland. My Dad went with it and family joined him later.

Eric Tilley		17-Jun-2008 12:58
Trevor, thank you for such an interesting site and for sharing those photos with us. My family originate from Sheerness and my father was an apprentice boilermaker in the dockyard,this must have been about 1918. We moved to London during the depression years but family visits brought us back during and just after WWII. I remember Navy Days at the dockyard,hard hat divers and rides out to sea on a fast patrol boat. Your site broughyt back many good memories

Keith Brennan		25-May-2008 08:05
Dear Trevor, These are really great photos as I only have distant memories of Sheerness from visits made as a boy. My recent visits have made me realise how much the place has changed. Would it be possible to copy a couple of photographs please (I have photographs of the chapel as it is now and I have never seen the inside)to accompany my own family history research. Kind regards. Keith

Brian Swinburne		04-Oct-2007 23:46
Very interesting collection of photographs. I lived in the Garrison in 1953 when the tidal surge broke through the sea wall and had to evacuate from my house and wade through the rising sea water along with my heavily pregnant mother, we were never able to return to our house and had to be rehoused but we did find our cat on the doorstep of our wrecked house a month later.

Derek Chamberlain		10-Mar-2007 08:42
Brian Douglas Brian probably a bit late getting to you but I think you are refferring to the coal hulk ex HMS Agincourt which was taken to london to be broken up, late 1950s or early 1960s sorry I cannot be more specific, I was involved in unmooring the vessel and the man in charge was Bill Payne of Paynes Marine transport Bill went to New Zealand in the 1970s but his family still work on the river now. Derek J Chamberlain

Ali Majdfar		14-Feb-2007 10:39
SPECTACULAR COLLECTION, GMV

David Mitchell		07-Aug-2006 08:58
I served my five year electrical fitter apprenticeship in the Dockyard from 1951 - 1956. The pictures brought back may memories. I remember going down below decks of the wooden hulks of old ships at low tide. These hulks supported the seaward side of the Basin. Also the time the gunnery school shot down a plane towing the gunnery school target. As an apprentice I had to help to pull out all the electrical equipment on board the submarine HMS Truculent after in was returned to the Dockyard and put into drydock. I now live in Sydney, Australia, but return to Kent and Sheppey every four years or so for a holiday.

Alan Locker		01-Jun-2006 13:46
Alan Locker-born and reared on Sheppey. Father, ex-RN, worked in Sheerness and Chatham dockyards, I now work in Dubai Drydocks - biggest in the world. Fabulous pictures of Sheerness docks, particularly old pier which stirs old memories of many happy hours of fishing - used to come home with a bag full of fish every trip then? Thank you

sharon		15-Jan-2006 20:27
really great pictures just moved here two years ago love the place,

brian douglas		09-Jan-2006 16:04
around 1950 i remember a dreadnought type hulk moored off sheerness . any info available ,i would be most interested thanks

John Simlett		09-Dec-2005 14:47
Wow! I grew up in Blue Town - these pictures took me back 55 years in a flash. Thank you ever so much for making them available

Dominic Goode		08-Nov-2005 12:54
An impressive collection of very interesting Sheerness images. I am currently researching the fortifications of Sheerness (I run a website on 17th century fortification at www.fortified-places.com/index.html), so of particular interest to me is the image entitled "Aerial View", which shows the remains of the 18th century bastioned trace around Blue Town in the foreground.

gregory motton		09-Oct-2005 01:20
May I copy some of your pictures for my own family history scrapbook, just for personal use, to show family and so on? (The pictures are great by the way)

Paul S Webber		13-May-2005 23:53
A real pleasure to look at,thank you.

Jacky Costi		06-May-2005 15:53
Interesting historical pictures. Thanks for sharing.

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