We have ,for our usage a section on dockyards,a lot of Medway towns people worked in the yard at one time or another,so there must be a load of stories concerning the yard out there ,plus tales of the people who worked therein,funny tragic,sad,stories,let's get them on record via this fourum because very soon there won't be many ex 'yard Maties' left to tell the tails,it would be a shame to loose the very essence of yard life, plus it can only improve the fourum as a repository of local information ,.
I was a radiation monitor ,worked up Untill closure clearing up the radio logical implications of the refueling complex,allso worked at Lodge Hill RNAD as a boy ,after the closure I was approached by a young lady doing her thesis on the nuclear complex and its reprocusons on those who were radiation workers, learnt a lot from that?so come on you yard gals &guys lets lay the ghost of the lazy Maties for ever,