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The Gillingham bus disaster occurred outside Chatham Dockyard, Kent [1] on the evening of 4 December 1951. A double-decker bus ploughed into a company of fifty-two young members of the Royal Marines Volunteer Cadet Corps , [ 2 ] aged between nine and thirteen.
Centurion AVRE (Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers) The 'Ravelin Building', which was designed by Major E.C.S. Moore, Royal Engineers and was completed in 1905 at a cost £40,000, [1] was originally used as electrical engineers' school before becoming the home of the museum in 1987. [2]
A fire rescue demonstration structure, Gillingham Park (undated) Each summer in the 1920s, a fair was organized in Gillingham Park to raise funds for the local St Bartholomew's Hospital. The traditional highlight of the event, which took place at the end of the festivities, was a demonstration of firefighting and rescue by the Gillingham Fire ...
July 11 – Gillingham Fair fire disaster, Kent, England, killed 15 when firefighting demonstration went wrong. September 20 – Study Club nightclub fire , Detroit, Michigan, killed 22. December 31 – Glen Cinema disaster , Paisley , Scotland, killed 71.
Garrison Ground 2 was a cricket ground in Gillingham, Kent.The ground, which has also been known as the Royal Engineers Sports Ground and simply the Garrison Ground, was used by Kent County Cricket Club for first-class and List A cricket between 1937 and 1972 and was the home ground of the Royal Engineers Cricket Club until 1961.
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The University of Kent is a 'Lead Sponsor' of the Academy, because of its ability to help provide support for the Academy's science specialism. [7] Medway Council is the co-sponsor. [8] From 2017, Chatham Grammar School for Girls and Brompton Academy's sixth-forms have merged into one big sixth-form named the University of Kent Academies Trust ...
Gillingham (/ ˈ dʒ ɪ l ɪ ŋ əm / ⓘ JIL-ing-əm) is a town in the unitary authority area of Medway, in the ceremonial county of Kent, England. The town forms a conurbation with neighbouring towns Chatham , Rochester , Strood and Rainham .