Terry Lewis (top left), Eileen Griffin (centre) and Alex Routen (bottom) have fond memories of the dockyard The closure of Chatham Dockyard on 31 March 1984 brought to an end more than 400 years of ...
The reverberations from the closure of one of the UK's last royal shipyards 40 years ago are still being felt. On 31 March 1984 more than 7,000 skilled workers at Chatham Dockyard lost their jobs, as ...
Rare naval treasures on show for a short time only at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard this summer ...
It was a dark day 60 years ago when the gates of Sheerness Naval Dockyard on the Isle of Sheppey slammed shut for the last time. More than 2,500 skilled workers, many who had been apprenticed there, ...