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A Hidden Treasure

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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Added by ricks rants on July 3, 2009 at 3:33am — 3 Comments

A bit of a quiz

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.

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Added by ricks rants on June 14, 2009 at 3:33am — 9 Comments

The joys of Christmas

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

Added by ricks rants on December 24, 2008 at 11:37am — 6 Comments

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Susan, I went up on my butt...on the right side, 2 steps higher than the guy with the red back pack...
18 minutes ago
Nice shot of the two of you. Coincidentally, I just finished watching Jeopardy which I had recorded earlier. I was especially curious after Jenterline had asked about the NYC librarian.
26 minutes ago
awesome geometry Jill!!
38 minutes ago
same here Susan... posted some of mine for Jill....I had one regret and that was not having a 2nd camera when I was up top....now I'll never get the chance!
39 minutes ago
you've said it all Susan!! nice to see both of you together!
49 minutes ago
it was such an amazing place!
49 minutes ago
ha, I see others coming down the way I had to! Now I don't feel so bad!
50 minutes ago
ah, how well I remember this!
51 minutes ago
GTO added 6 photos
55 minutes ago
wow, I guess it's a good thing I did this 20 years ago! Even with extreme vertigo, it was an experience to remember!
1 hour ago
I climbed those millions of stairs too - about 20 years ago - and experienced such vertigo at the top that I was afraid I wasn't going to be able to get down! Eventually I went down on my butt, step by step.....!
1 hour ago
and no, I don't know the NYC librarian who was on Jeopardy - you are the second person to ask me that :)
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