August 1966 - Policeman on duty outside the Main Gate, Chatham Dockyard.
Dockyard Days - Tourist takeover at the first Steam Rally 1984
February 1958 - Sailors leaving the naval base
June 1933 King's Birthday celebrations, Royal Navy Barracks at HMS Pembroke
June 1971 - Chatham Dockyard Navy Days - opens to the public for displays and tours
March 3 1961 - Gun Wharf, Chatham Dockyard,
October 1962 - HMS Ocelot, Submarine being launched at Chatham Dockyard.
October 1981 - Chatham Dockyard workers campaigning against plans for its closure.
RNAD staff on shift at Chatham Dockyard.
Some of the people who visited Chatham Dockyard on August Bank holiday 1931
The Flag at Chatham Dockyard is lowered for the last time before its1984 closure, ending 400 years of links between the Medway Towns and the Royal Navy. The closure cost 8,000 jobs.
The Queen's Silver Jubilee celebration. Jean Headgecock of Chatham and Millie Snell of Gillingham were cock-a-hoop after winning a fancy hat competition at a Jubilee tea party at Chatham's naval base.
The site of the dock where Nelson's Victory was built in Chatham Dockyard.
Thousands of jobs were lost when Chatham Dockyard closed in 1984. Only in recent years has the economy of the Medway Towns begun to recover.
These pictures, taken from the Medway Messenger archive, show the former naval base in its 20th century prime and in its latter years as hundreds of years of ship building tradition slipped into history.
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