Interesting,i live in Gillingham and your video was very informative, thanks for creating and posting!The last bit about chalk pit /rubbish pit- well this is good area to let your dog off and has a council funded bmx track.
Anglo saxon name Gillingham, translated House of the shouting Men, or latin, Domus Clamantuim. Anglo Saxons settled in Kent and they named their settlement Gillingham, one of the Anglo Saxon warriors carried a flag with a white horse on it (odin), Invicta means Unconquered, Even the buses use Invicta.
Most information sites claim the name Gillingham means that the Saxon Warrior that started his settlement was called Gylla, Gillingham = Gylla's Hamlet.
Thank you 🙏 for the historic lesson on Gillingham. I remember the date plates you referred to. I can’t believe I work for Portland Cable Trams. So I found the Tram history I appreciated 🙏that’s how I remember The Strand 🤣🤣🐨🐨🦘
I used to live there in the early/mid 1970’s and loved it.. I look back with many fond memories.. left when I was 14. Used to earn £1 a week doing a 7 day a week paper round.. Now on the other side of the world.
In the old picture I noticed the street light before you mentioned it. In Braintree and Bocking, there are a surprising number of Stanton 9 lampposts remaining on older residential roads. Almost all were "sleeved" in the late 80s. Most of them had the 9D bracket, and a few the 9A swan neck. If you look at Woodfield Road and St. Mary's Road, Braintree on Streetview, you can see a few Stanton lampposts with their original 9D brackets and GEC "fat Albert" lanterns. Eleco lampposts must be rare now. Most concrete Group Bs I see are CU.
Interesting video Beno. I don’t know if you know this but the National Library of Scotland (NLS) have a handy online tool I find quite interesting for comparing old maps to today’s roads and railways in Glasgow. It covers the UK and allows you to view an aligned overlay of old OS and Bartholomew maps as a transparency on top of modern day digital/satellite maps like Bing and others to compare them. You just adjust the slider to adjust transparency. The most detailed and interesting are the detailed ones like the 25” 1892-1914 and the 1:1250/2500 1944-69. Link: maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18.504311192281072&lat=51.38095&lon=0.53005&layers=170&b=4 I’ve zeroed it in on your favourite place - Chatham Tesco!
Interresting video, I often use these sort of maps to find out about the year of construction of buildings. In The Netherlands some of data is publicly available and is incorporated in certain GIS datasets. However, sometimes the data in the official BAG dataset is incorrect. But what happened with the audio? It was clipping in the beginning, it sounded like it was recorded with a too hot input signal.
Please more vids like this, and thanks for this cool map website, I know a place where they removed proper horse racetrack and now there are cool blocks, maybe you should check it out?
Please make more videos like this but in different areas Brno.
Interesting,i live in Gillingham and your video was very informative, thanks for creating and posting!The last bit about chalk pit /rubbish pit- well this is good area to let your dog off and has a council funded bmx track.
Anglo saxon name Gillingham, translated House of the shouting Men, or latin, Domus Clamantuim. Anglo Saxons settled in Kent and they named their settlement Gillingham, one of the Anglo Saxon warriors carried a flag with a white horse on it (odin), Invicta means Unconquered, Even the buses use Invicta.
Most information sites claim the name Gillingham means that the Saxon Warrior that started his settlement was called Gylla, Gillingham = Gylla's Hamlet.
Thank you 🙏 for the historic lesson on Gillingham. I remember the date plates you referred to. I can’t believe I work for Portland Cable Trams. So I found the Tram history I appreciated 🙏that’s how I remember The Strand 🤣🤣🐨🐨🦘
Amazing job! Nicely done!
I used to live there in the early/mid 1970’s and loved it.. I look back with many fond memories.. left when I was 14. Used to earn £1 a week doing a 7 day a week paper round.. Now on the other side of the world.
We have similar memories. I was also 14 when we moved to Australia 🇦🇺. I used to work at Maidstone Market on Saturday’s. Where did you move to ❓🐨🦘
Amazing. Waghorn's statue with no traffic cone on it.
Loved every second of it thankyou sir
8:47 just made me laugh the way you said it😂
Eitienytie
I live in rochester (wainscott specifically) its a really nice place
In the old picture I noticed the street light before you mentioned it. In Braintree and Bocking, there are a surprising number of Stanton 9 lampposts remaining on older residential roads. Almost all were "sleeved" in the late 80s. Most of them had the 9D bracket, and a few the 9A swan neck. If you look at Woodfield Road and St. Mary's Road, Braintree on Streetview, you can see a few Stanton lampposts with their original 9D brackets and GEC "fat Albert" lanterns. Eleco lampposts must be rare now. Most concrete Group Bs I see are CU.
Thats an Interesting video!
24:33 Glagsow's Duke of Wellington statue is better. It always has multiple cones on it so much so that it's an icon
Well Fkuc me I love your use of the local vernacular had me in stitches much obliged,
A tramway like Cologne Bonn should come to Medway, the towns are a good distance apart and they would work well as they are faster than buses
Very interesting
Interesting video Beno. I don’t know if you know this but the National Library of Scotland (NLS) have a handy online tool I find quite interesting for comparing old maps to today’s roads and railways in Glasgow. It covers the UK and allows you to view an aligned overlay of old OS and Bartholomew maps as a transparency on top of modern day digital/satellite maps like Bing and others to compare them. You just adjust the slider to adjust transparency. The most detailed and interesting are the detailed ones like the 25” 1892-1914 and the 1:1250/2500 1944-69. Link: maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18.504311192281072&lat=51.38095&lon=0.53005&layers=170&b=4 I’ve zeroed it in on your favourite place - Chatham Tesco!
Interresting video, I often use these sort of maps to find out about the year of construction of buildings. In The Netherlands some of data is publicly available and is incorporated in certain GIS datasets. However, sometimes the data in the official BAG dataset is incorrect. But what happened with the audio? It was clipping in the beginning, it sounded like it was recorded with a too hot input signal.
me:*YOU DIRTY HISTORY KILLER*
4:57 there's a platform lift there too
Which website do you use to see the historical maps? I would like to see if there were trams in my local area.
Ow my ears
yeah, quite a lot of clipping
Same
Please more vids like this, and thanks for this cool map website, I know a place where they removed proper horse racetrack and now there are cool blocks, maybe you should check it out?
Good video, I love stuff like this very interesting
im using this website on my phone, do i need a laptop so i can look at the old photos because i dont know how? can you help?🙏
@@NCHLT cheers mate👌
Does anyone know what website was used for the maps?
Cheers ben
There an empty Debenhams in Chatham to explore
Indeed. Shame that Debenhams is fading away. All because of the bloody Coronavirus that came from China.
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