Menu

I found the following websites helpful and interesting while conducting my research.  If you have any suggestions for sites that could apppear here, please email them to: chathamdockyard@btinternet.com.

BBC Kent recollections of former workers inc. audio and video: http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/content/articles/2009/03/26/chatham_dockyard_workers_feature.shtml

Chatham Dockyard Revisited (recollections of former workers and John Knott about the closure, wastage and waiving the rules: http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/southeast/series8/week_eight.shtml

Edwin Matthews' appeal case  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1391321/Asbestos-victim-fights-to-the-last.html

Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre: http://cityark.medway.gov.uk/

Mavis Nye's blog concerning her fight against Mesothelioma - she is believed to have contracted the disease from asbestos dust on her husand's work clothes and in his hair: http://www.rayandmave.org.uk/html/maves_diary.html

Meso and Me - Raymond Nye's blog as carer to Mavis: http://mesoandme.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/mentioned-in-dispatches/

Ropemakers - trailer for the film by Journeyman.tv  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgwjev8xKVE&feature=colike

The Chatham Dockyard Historical Society: http://www.dockmus.btck.co.uk/

The Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust: http://www.thedockyard.co.uk/

The Naval Dockyards Society: http://navaldockyards.org/

Transcript of "The Price of Peace" http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/audio_video/programmes/panorama/transcripts/transcript_26_01_98.txt