Chatham

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Born Milo Hanrahan, October 18th, 1984, in Chatham, Kent, England.

He's 41 years old now, guys, which is...

Oh my God, dude.

At his death it was bought by a gentleman named Lynn, and leased to a sporting clergyman of the Regency days named Townsend, who was succeeded in its occupancy by another clergyman, the Reverend Joseph Hindle, then and still rector of Higham, in which parish the house is situated.

Dickens bought the house towards the close of 1856, and obtained possession in the following March, becoming, as he wrote to Mr. Forster, the Kentish freeholder on his native heath, a description which, while it evinced the exuberance of feeling which he experienced on becoming the owner of a house on which he had long had a longing eye, was not quite accurate, as though he had been brought up at Chatham, he was a native of Portsmouth.

His first act of proprietorship was to hang upon the wall of the landing the following framed inscription, illuminated by Owen Jones.

This house, Gadd's Hill Place, stands on the summit of Shakespeare's Gadd's Hill, ever memorable for its association with Sir John Falstaff in his noble fancy.

The river, reflecting the clear blue of the sky, glistened and sparkled as it flowed noiselessly on, and the oars of the fishermen dipped into the water with a clear and liquid sound as the heavy but picturesque boats glided slowly down the stream.

Just as Mr. Pickwick saw it then, we saw it now, and the reflection occurred spontaneously that Dickens must often have leaned over the bridge as we were doing, and gazed upon the castle ruins and the sunlit stream which they were then overshadowing.

Mr. Forster relates that he met him here on his return from Broadstairs at the end of September 1841, and that they passed the day and night here, and we find them here again with the novelist's wife and Miss Hogarth and Macleans and Gerald four years later when they visited the castle and Watts's almshouse, and went over the fortifications of Chatham, having their quarters at the Bull Inn.

At a later period of his life, during his residence at Gad's Hill, Dickens often walked into Rochester, turning out of the High Street through the Vines.

Medway.

Medway, the North Kent marshes, a painter's paradise, a unitary authority, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham and Raynham, and a history stretching back to the Romans.

Charles Dickens lived there and Jules Holland still does.

If you want to know what the future funding of hospitals might look like, take a trip to Medway, but you'll have to hurry up.

Restricting the manufacture even of their own raw products by the colonies.

So strong was this feeling in England that even Lord Chatham declared in Parliament, The British colonies of North America have no right to manufacture even a nail or a horseshoe.

Most of these restrictions have been removed, though the result still remains.

The Phoenicians, Carthaginians, and Greeks had colonies on the Mediterranean.

It is Falth.

Strood, Radom, Gillingham, Chatham and Rochester are the Medway conurbation.

Of course.

Everyone knows that.

It is Folf.

That's in

Chatham.

Chatham.

They actually even shipped a whole ship.

So a complete frigate was built in Chatham in England, and the whole ship was broken into sections, shipped across the ocean and up the St. Lawrence River to Point Frederick.

It's almost like Ikea in

shipbuilding.

So it didn't appear in the versions before that, but it was added in 2024 and in this case, it's a proposal for 800 homes, uh, that was put forward together with a school and a local center.

And as I say, it was just outside the Medway conurbation, so that's the, the towns of Rochester and Gillingham, Chatham, and this scheme was proposed on agricultural land just outside that area.

And the scheme was refused by Medway Council, and the two main reasons were the reliance on private car journeys, hence affecting sustainability, landscape visual effects, and the inspector supported that conclusion and refused the appeal on those main grounds and he acknowledged, you know, the benefits of this very big scheme in the context of housing land supply shortfall, you know, provision of housing, affordable homes, and also care facilities.

So he acknowledged that it provided substantial benefits, but in the balance, he ruled that the substantial planning harm arising from the development significantly outweighed the benefits of the new housing, so it failed that tilted balance in his conclusion.

Your mum i- is Slovakian, your dad's Nigerian.

Um, you spent the very early part of your life in Slovakia, and then you joined the rest of your family in Chatham in Kent.

Uh, not a, a mile away, actually, not too far away from where I was brought up in, in East Sussex.

Um, how do you-

You yourself have talked about, "When my mum and dad separated, it was hard.

Mum had to say, 'I can't afford to take care of you.

You gotta live with your dad.' Samuel and I lived in the house on Luton Road in Chatham that my dad owned.

We had £7 a week to buy food." And I read that, and it really stood out for me, is one of the common themes of the greats of sport I've interviewed is that they all came from very little.

And it came as something close to humiliation for one side, and something close to legend for the other.

In June of 67, the Dutch executed a raid on the Medway, the river in Kent where the English fleet lay at anchor, in ordinary, behind a defensive chain stretched across the water at Chatham.

England was negotiating peace.

The fleet had been partially demobilized for reasons of economy.

The defenses were not as alert as they might have been, and a Reuter, with a boldness that is still striking three and a half centuries later, sent his fleet directly into the Thames estuary, broke the chain at Chatham, and proceeded to capture, burn, and tow away English warships from what was essentially their home port.

The flagship of the English fleet, the Royal Charles, one of the most powerful warships in the world, the vessel that had carried King Charles II home from exile at the Restoration, was taken as a prize and towed back to the Netherlands.

It never returned.