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A Hidden Treasure

It nestles at the mouth of the River Medway facing the remains of the old Chatham Dockyard and the new Chatham Industrial and housing estate. It has offered protection to the Medway towns since it was commissioned in Elizabethan times.

In 1667 it played a vital role in defending the Medway from the Dutch invasion of England. Now it is almost a forgotten castle, not many people, even locals, know of its existence.

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I took this last week in Scotland at Aberdour Castle.

What is it?

Clues I am inside looking up. It is a few hundred years old.

BB no help please as you know what it is.

The joys of Christmas in Orpington High Street.

The shops were bursting at the seems with our local Neanderthals fighting to get to the check out. Their large shovel like paws grasping firmly onto their shopping trolleys piled high with loaves of sliced white styro foam that passes for bread around these parts. Obviously no body has told them that Christ, allegedly, fed 5,000 people on five loaves and two fishes, yet here they are with enough bread to feed 5,000 without the proverbial miracle.… Continue