Gillingham, Kent Walk: Town Centre【4K】
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- čas přidán 6. 08. 2024
- Located in the county of Kent, and around 30 miles east, and slightly south, of central London, is the town of Gillingham (not to be confused with the town of Gillingham in Dorset, which is pronounced with a hard "g", unlike here where the "g" is soft. English pronunciation - gotta love it!).
The name 'Gillingham' breaks down to 'Gylla', 'ingas' and 'ham', literally meaning 'home of Gylla's (a Saxon personal name) family/followers'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 it is recorded as 'Gelingeham', at which point it was a tiny hamlet.
During the mid-16th century, Chatham Dockyard was established along the River Medway in the neighbouring town of Chatham, and subsequently expanded into Gillingham. It was founded by Queen Elizabeth I, who established it as a royal dockyard. In 1667 it was subject to a raid from a Dutch fleet who sailed up the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. The Dutch scored a successful attack on the English warships in what was one of the worst defeats in the history of the Royal Navy.
In 1756 the Seven Years' War began. The Chatham Lines of Defence were built to defend the dockyard in 1758, and stretched for over a mile between Chatham at one end and Gillingham at the other. The war ended in Anglo-Prussian coalition victory after, well, seven years. Additionally, HMS Victory was constructed at Chatham Dockyard during the war, and first launched in 1765. The ship would later see action, perhaps most famously in 1805 at the Battle of Trafalgar.
At the time of the first census of 1801 the population of Gillingham was a little over 4,000. This would expand tenfold to over 40,000 a century later. In 1858 the railway arrived at Gillingham, originally named New Brompton in reference to the historic planned village of Brompton which originated in the late 17th century to aid with the construction of the dockyard, and later split into Old Brompton and New Brompton. Today the railway station has connections to London to the west and the Kent coast to the east. Among its services are high speed trains direct to St Pancras Station, known as Class 395 Javelins, which are built in Japan by Hitachi.
In 1984 Chatham Dockyard closed. In 1987 the Royal Engineers Museum opened in Gillingham. This museum and library tells the story of the Corps of Royal Engineers who to this day are garrisoned in neighbouring Chatham.
Gillingham is represented in sport by Gillingham Football Club. Founded in 1893, originally as New Brompton, they are nicknamed 'the Gills' and play their home games at Priestfield Stadium just east of the town centre.
Gillingham is the birthplace of William Adams, an Elizabethan seafarer who, in 1600, was the first Englishman to reach Japan. Also, Jack Hues of Wang Chung comes from Gillingham (one for the '80s music fanatics).
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Filmed: 10th March 2022
Link to the walk on Google Maps: goo.gl/maps/F3kvRAnkPNGwP33Q9
Filmed on a Sony FDR-AX700 with a Zhiyun Crane 2 and a Sony ECM-XYST1M Stereo Microphone.
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Canterbury Street
4:02 St Mark's Church
4:11 Canterbury Street
4:47 High Street
8:51 Gillingham Station
8:58 High Street
10:52 Sappers Walk
11:52 High Street
17:18 Mill Road
17:39 Gillingham War Memorial
17:44 Mill Road
It's a tip really. Spent a fortnight there earlier this year. Every second shop is a barber, the rest are mostly cheap general stores. Terraced houses with front areas littered with rubbish and broken stuff they put outside for people to take if they want but clearly don't so they just leave it there piled up instead of dumping it. No pride at all.
I feel like I've seen something new every time I am watching your videos. It's always an eye-opener. Thank you! : )
Thanks for stopping by!
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Hey, thanks for stopping by!
Nice town walk. St. Marks churchs structure is very good. Thank you for the visit. And yes 47 views within an hour means people wait for your walking tours. Cheers.
That's very kind of you to say, thanks!
Love those archway buildings.
Great video. Thanks for making it. Got to see my girlfriend's home town.
You should see Chatham town centre. It's England's prettiest town! 👍
I think people from Rochester might have something to say about that!
Is that sarcasm ?
Looks like somewhere in South Africa now. I now live in Vicarage Road where the shop Londis is at the start, I have lived in Gillingham for 60 years it is now a dump.
Beautiful town
Thank you for the video. I'm planning to visit Gillingham in August.
Come and see me
@@emmanuelbabatunde7765 where are you
@@emmanuelbabatunde7765 I visited Chatham, walked over the great lines then down to the Strand. Along the seawall to Rainham then turned back. Had a pint of water and cider in the Three Mariners pub. Then walked back along the sea wall back to the Strand. Up church Street and visit St Mary's then along to Gillingham station. I'm glad I caught a earlier train since I was already exhausted. Got home before 8pm.
@@LordRaphaelBouchier nice hope you had a nice one.
Did you visit in August ❓ if so, what did you think ❓🤔🐨🐨🦘
I was here 5:51 In 2016 when I was 12, it looked magical 😂😂 Alot of time went by yet things are most likely the same especially that vegetable store.
It was more of an adventure for me, good memories.
At 15:21 I used to get my hair cut at TBW at that time, nice lady.
Thanks for this, grew up here and left in the early 90s so great to see it again :)
Ah cheers!
Where did you go to school and which years❓ I recognise the name for some reason 🤔🐨🐨🦘
MY good friend , Brian Day was from Gillingham . He died in 1996 , few months before princes Diana , and I remember him telling me at the time , that he would be not surprised if she would end up in some kind of a nasty accident... He was right, but none of us knew that he would succumb to a nasty form of cancer before her....He was a musician, we played together and spent a lot of time reminiscing of Europe and the life in it. He was a quiet man, ununassuming , and since he didn't have any family here in Australia, he was almost daily visitor in our house. I am so glad to see where he came from and sorry that he never saw my town, since this kind of technology did not exist at the time.... He is still greatly missed in my family and is often remembered in conversations with those who knew him. Seing streets of Gillingham where Brian grew up, triggered lots of memories of our time spent together. Gillingham, I salute you from, and both both of us !!!❤❤
Thats Canterbury st
I can’t believe this was only ONE Year ago. Completely different now. Majority of businesses are closed 😢🐨🐨🦘
Is the train station far from the High Street?
You can see it from the High Street, so not far at all!
Thank you
Sappers Walk - Lest we Forget.
There is a chapter dedicated to each of the people displayed in Sappers Walk in 'The Medway And The Military' by Mel Swain.
What about the football team
Love Gillingham.
Hi Claire.
It looks OK. Is it a nice place to live. ?
no
@@angelikapati1215 lol
is gillingham a safe place to live?
No
NO
Yes
not really. had bad experience living there. 2 years living there🥲
My cousin was mugged & Beaton up after getting off the Gillingham train after work from London walking home. He’s had several eye surgery procedures since. He has since moved away & purchased a house in Nottinghamshire 🐨🐨🦘
It just looks so dismal now, compared to the way I remember it from the 1970s, when it was full of really good shops, and thriving. Now just a sad mess of a virtually dead town centre.
It isn’t looking great, but comparing it to a lot of towns I’ve seen tours of on youtube, it could be worse.
What a dump.😂😂😂