Talk:Chatham Dockyard

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Find map showing River Medway and Dockyard (contour lines?) Find map showing defences (Great Lines, etc) Tweak material about Forts so ties in with each Fort's own article (where exists). Create articles about Forts where don't exist? Tie all to List of Castles (& Thames forts?)

[edit] Wikilinking the people in the end of the article

Someone asked if the people near the end of the article (Sir Edward Gregory, Captain Charles Cunningham, Captain J M Lewes, Sir Charles Bullen) should really be wikilinked. I'm not sure if they do or not, I don't know much about the topic. I wikilinked them because I assumed some of them might already have articles on them (as other's I linked did). The questioner said that Sir Charles Bullen has a good biography findable via Google. I consider that suggests he is probably worth an article in Wikipedia. The questioner considered the presence of the information findable via google as a reason not to make a wikipedia article, but Wikipedia is more accessable and permanant(due to it's free content nature) so even making use of the site to create a wikipedia article would be worthwhile. I guess my general opinion is to leave the links in, as we are not running out of space yet. ;-) JesseW 02:52, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Expanding this article

This could do with expansion, especially about the dockyard at the time of the Napoleonic wars. Marc Isambard Brunel built steam-powered sawmills, parts of which survive. Indeed all the articles about the British Naval Dockyards could do with expansion for this period. See Portsmouth Block Mills for what might be possible. When I get a minute I will add something. Apwoolrich 08:48, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Chatham Dockyard Oral History Project

I am currently conducting an oral history study of Chatham Dockyard and have set up my own website. I wonder if it would be suitable for inclusion on this part of Wikipedia? http://chathamdockyard.net.

Thanks

Chatham Dockyard Oral History Project 12:22, 2 January 2007 (UTC)