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[edit] channel tunnel rail link

do u think we should make a mention of the channel tunnel rail link passing by strood and the new bridge across the medway?

[edit] new houses

also i may add something about the new houses they r building around the Chalk Pit between cuxton road and sycamore road/ rushdean road. ill need to do more research but i have seen it and it looks like a big project. they have already completely changed the landscape there and r starting inside the pit i think. more research needed.

Pratj 00:40, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The pictures

I have added some images, but believe that it is impossible to take one picture that is representative of Strood.

  • Anything photogenic is actually in Frindsbury.
  • Anything photogenic has already been
    • demolished
    • burnt down
    • built over
  • Anything that exists is in a backwater no-one ever visits so won't recognise
  • Or is too small to have significance

Feel free to improve on anything I have provided.ClemRutter 21:59, 7 December 2006 (UTC)


Can someone please change the picture in this article, it's a picture of northern ireland...not strood.

It has been zapped ClemRutter 21:59, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gedas?

"The model and television presenter Kelly Brook is also from this Kentish town and Gedas."

Doesn't make sense to me so snipping the last two words. Sharm 22:47, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] reorganisation

this page badly needs reorganisation. make it more similar to the medway article i have been working on.

Pratj 18:22, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

i hope to have a major revision ready shortly- I have taken a copy of the existing text offline and am working on it now ClemRutter 19:19, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

OK. I have posted my changes, so it all looks a bit different now. All the original comments have been retained, and marked (No attribute). Three sentences went as they were unbalanced and couldn't be attributed. I have left wikifying to the experts-particularly the references. There is more to be done on the Mills, I have the source material but ran out of time. I also have photographs that will add later when I have classified them

Enjoy.

ClemRutter 18:31, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

well done. much, much , much better Pratj 19:28, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CHURCHGREEN

How come Church Green has not been mentioned in Frindsbury as it has a good historic back ground and that local legend has it that where the park is there used to be a coal power station. And an old chalk pit just beside the Frindsbury hill, with an old barn beside the other side of the chalk pit that boast's a lot of history. CAN ANYONE HELP

well, i live in strood and have never heard that rumour. im sure there would be documents on it if there was a power station their but i cannot find any. ill ask around to see if any1 can remember. Pratj 20:11, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

The "chalk pit" is still there: it created the chalk cliff below Church Green. In old photos, the grassy slope runs all the way down to water level. And the "power station" may possibly have been the pumping station associated with the canal, or for drinking water, but I'm just guessing here. JackyR | Talk 21:20, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
good theory there jacky. the chalk pit can still be seen but there has been no coal fired power station that i can find on the internet.
The history of Church Green is well documented. There was scheme to demolish the church so they could get at the chalk beneath-this was dropped. There was a conflict between industrial use and housing- neither progressed. There is no record of a power station, though the sidings alongside the strood basin were used for coal twice- once for the engines, and then later to take coal by barge to Kingsnorth Power Station (until 15th January 1986) ref para 52 Southern Main Lines, Darford to Sittingbourne, Middleton Press.ClemRutter 22:13, 7 December 2006 (UTC)


Heh heh. Take a look at what Clem (an off-wiki pal) is cooking up in his sandbox! Some work needed before this becomes Frindsbury, but I've promised him I'll do some over the next few days. JackyR | Talk 23:00, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Do see Frindsbury. ClemRutter 22:13, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

this article is a million times better than what it was a month ago, well done.

can i just ask where are u getting those old maps from? Pratj 13:12, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

The maps are stored at the Local Studies Centre, Civic Centre Strood. They will do a A3 photocopy for 50p. I use Reeves watercolour tubes to shade (Ultramarine, Ochre, Crimson.) These are then scanned in using a Epson 1650. I then use Photoshop Elements to stitch them together and reduce the resolution, a bit more shading, and add the captions-- I would have been so much easier if the OS in 1863 had just used jpegs! ClemRutter 10:41, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kelly Brooks Saga

The model and television presenter Kelly Brook is also from this Kentish town.[citation needed]-

ClemRutter removed the above line wiht html coment tags
IIRC she went Thomas Aveling, making her from Rochester/Chatham, see http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0111639/bio Pickle UK then made the above coment in the article
I can't recall meeting her Does anyone recall her. Unfortunately, that she went to Thomas Aveling, doesn't mean that she wasn't born here.
  • Her parents could have moved.
  • But Thomas Aveling what the nearest mixed Secondary Modern, when Rede Court was closed- and many Strood kids did cross the bridge.
Until we have a citation, I suggest we leave it commented out. ClemRutter 22:03, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
The brief dig about by me, and from what i do recall (Medway News probably, where as 'local girl made good' she occasional features) is it has always been said she was from Rochester - thus i would normally attribute her to being from Rochester, rather than Strood, but people have been known to say Strood is in Rochester... Thus i'ld strike her from the Strood page as she is more than likely to be from Rochester, although its quiet possible she is actually from Strood. Pickle 23:09, 15 May 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Political Representation

The following was posted:

  • My comments in italics.


Political representation in Strood at a local government level is spread across three wards, specifically Strood North, Strood South and Strood Rural. These wards are represented on Medway Council which is a unitary authority established in 1998.

No- Strood is not in Rural in the same way that Strood was in Rochester and never in Strood Rural District Council- read the references below.

The latest political composition can be found on the Medway Local Election 2007 website

If you want to post the Strood info- please extract it and format it in a table. That detail neds to go in the Medway item

Strood is traditionally represented by all three major parties at local government.

Wrong. Strood has not been represented by a Liberal Democrat or Independant Liberal Democrat in the last 30 years. It has been Tory, and Labour.
This is not a link farm- this is a form of political spam
I have served on the council with Geoff, and he is a welcome guest any time he wishes to knock on my door- but he is a Gillingham member- no connection with Strood at a LG level. The LibDems do not have any organisation on the Strood side of the river.

Strood is part of the Medway Constituency and is represented by Labour MP, Bob Marshall-Andrews

Unless this becomes wiki policy to plug the MP for each neighbourhood then this is out of place
In doing this edit, reference to Strood Rural District council was erased.
In signing this edit, as a former elected member I declare an interest as an active member of one of the political parties mentioned.ClemRutter 22:05, 27 October 2007 (UTC)