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As always, it would be nice to include geographical and demographic data to match entries on US towns, assuming anyone can find it....
is Luton, Walderslade, Lordswoods, etc not part of Chatham? (as ME5, not just ME4)
is Wayfield not part of Chatham either (again ME5) -- C18 16:41, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
I have omitted the third of the "famous people" - Jonathon R Thompson - since I cannot find him in Google and there is no article about him. Of course Percy Whitlock doesn't have one either, but I have said that he was a composer ... Peter Shearan 07:09, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
From 1832 to 1918 Chatham was represented by a Member of Parliament; after the latter date the constituency was subsumed into one, for the Medway Towns. ***NEEDS CHECKING****
In 1999 *needs checking* Chatham, along with the other Medway Towns, broke away from the control of Kent County Council and is now run by Medway Council. Gary Kirk
I removed this as unverified facts do not belong in any article MRSC 15:42, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
Fort Borstal has not been demolished. It is, however, being converted into a home -- Cunningham 15:28, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
Mention? Link? 85.227.226.168 08:00, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Yes, the Catti, sometimes also historically known as the Chatti or Khatti, were Aryans who established colonies in Chatham as well as Chattenden in the Medway, North Kent. The book entitled "The Phoenician Origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons by Lawrence A. Waddell, mentions the Catti in Britain. My grandfather was an avid historian, and would tell the family in detail all about British place names and tribal groups.
Done
I've been playing around with this article in an unsuccessful attempt to remove the grossly excessive amount of white space caused by the positioning of the images. Nothing seems to work, and I suspect the infobox and its images may be the cause. Can someone do something about this? Emeraude ( talk) 10:02, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Apparently not. Emeraude ( talk) 19:35, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
I see my name is mentioned by Clem Ritter above! I had not before now been looking at this article, having been Wiki-busy elsewhere, but now that I have, and as I see it, its main fault is its overwhelming desire to put the now-defunct dockyard as its most important part, when there is a perfectly good and detailed article on that establishment. I remember taking a year group of school children there a generation ago, and thinking, even then, that what we were looking at was all in the past: unkempt buildings and huge areas of open space. Now it has all been Disneyfied, as so often happens with heritage sites, but even so the sheer activity which took place when it was a going concern cannot be replicated. Merely repeating what is in the Dockyard article (but with far less detail) is not telling readers about Chatham as it is.
What I am saying is that we should be looking at this place - as with every other - as it is today; of course there should be some reference to its past, but not to this extent. A glance at the Gillingham, Kent article, which after all had twice as much of the Dockyard as did Chatham, will show what I mean. Using the Wiki preferred headings for this article will open it up much more for entries about the place in 2008. And a further question - isn't Brompton today (not in ecclesiastical terms) part of what was the Borough of Gillingham? That puts the RE barracks ouside Chatham.
As to the history paragraph:
One day I might have a go at it, if no-one else does in the meantime! Peter Shearan ( talk) 09:21, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
The day came and I have had a go at it!! It is laid out as per Wiki geography settlements: I am quite happy to explain why some of the things written before have been left out, but mostly it was (as with Chatham Dockyard and railway station for example) because the original article on both those contained the infrmation and there didn't seem any reason to repeat it. Peter Shearan ( talk) 15:26, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
The article says "After the Norman invasion the manor of Chatham, originally Saxon, was given by William the Conqueror to Earl Godwin." Earl Godwin was the Earl of Wessex, the father of King Harold Godwinson who William killed when invading England, and dead before the Norman Conquest even happened. QiZhe ( talk) 04:03, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
What is this bit saying? "Abolished"? As far as I am aware the church is still there; it ceased use in 2001 according to http://www.chathamvines.com/home.html.
"St John's was built in 1821, but remodelled in 1869, and abolished in 1964." MarkyMarkD ( talk) 19:55, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
I have edited the etymology. Of the three suggested etymologies, only the first is supported by the standard modern authorities (one of which I've added to the refs).
The reasons to delete the other two are:
-- Pfold ( talk) 10:24, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
This paragraph discribing the Luton Village with reference to the photo 3 does not in fact show Luton Village at all nor victorian terraced houses. This photo does show the Daisy and Coney Banks the Wayfield and Downsview Areas the golf driving range and the bottom of Hopewell Drive Fort Luton is in the area top right. This this area was built in the 20th century beyond the original Luton Village. These houses do not follow the contour lines either many of the roads are hilly . The former Village of Luton with its distinct victorian terrraced housing is beyond the bottom right of this view if not obscured by trees.The vista shown is taken at a point where the Luton Valley splits into a series of valleys entering the north downs and is a mixture of 20th Century housing developments and conserved green areas. Tophouseman ( talk) 09:26, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
There appears to be much in the article about chatham's road problems but not much about the history of its rail links and nothing at all about its former tram systems. Tophouseman ( talk) 09:39, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
Can anyone back up the claim that Great White Shark have been spotted at Chatham? I do not recall reading any such news at the time (and I think there would have been) and a quick browse on google leads me to suspect the sharks were visiting Chatham in Massachusetts USA not Medway UK. I've deleted this section for the time being. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.127.96.6 ( talk) 17:13, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
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