Deadmans Island in the Medway

[oldgit]

courtesy of MSBA website.
Don’t miss Deadman’s Island on TV, Mon 30 Jan

Posted on 29th January 2017 by admiral
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Deadman’s Island will be featured on BBC1 South East’s Inside Out on Monday 30 Jan at 7.30pm. The island near Queenborough contains many graves of those who died on the prison hulks and quarantined ships in Stangate Creek.We make a macabre discovery on a remote island off Kent, when the tide goes out it reveals long-forgotten secrets from its chilling past.

This makes a change to to normal media tales about scorpions in Sheerness docks and the Montgomery.

 

[xyachtdave]

courtesy of MSBA website.
Don’t miss Deadman’s Island on TV, Mon 30 Jan

Posted on 29th January 2017 by admiral
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Deadman’s Island will be featured on BBC1 South East’s Inside Out on Monday 30 Jan at 7.30pm. The island near Queenborough contains many graves of those who died on the prison hulks and quarantined ships in Stangate Creek.We make a macabre discovery on a remote island off Kent, when the tide goes out it reveals long-forgotten secrets from its chilling past.

This makes a change to to normal media tales about scorpions in Sheerness docks and the Montgomery.

Sorry cocked me previous up......managed to copy and paste some work stuff in by mistake!

Thanks for sharing, 'Deadman's Island' - that's got Hollywood written all over it!

 

[oldgit]

The local scuttlebutt is that bones are still being exposed by erosion.

Watched to programme last night, short but interesting,weeny bit over the top regards approach ,but presume thats whats needed today keep people watching anything not involving cooking cakes and eating worms somewhere warm while dancing.
Interesting little vignette recorded in the pub at the end of the slipway at Queenborough presumably filmed towards closing time.
Knew the islands local reputation but not really aware of just how many remains are coming to the surface.
Actually landed on the island many years ago to help recover some empty LASH barges which had broken adrift in a gale and had gone aground on a spring tide.
They had to be recovered the next day or there they would stay for some while .