A meeting is taking place on Monday 7 February to discuss planning issues affecting the Hoo Peninsula. It is part of Medway Council’s consul...

The Kent Wildlife Trust is working hard to protect local wildlife by preserving and protecting our environment. Paul Pearce, who co-ordina...

I’ve been contacted this week by a lady living in Australia, called Margaret Somers. Margaret, who lives near Brisbane, is researching her H...

ScottishPower this week received government consent to construct a new 1000MW gas-fired power station next to their existing Damhead Creek s...

Yesterday’s announcement about plans for a new gas-fired power station at Damhead Creek reminded me of a booklet I was shown recently about ...

Since launching this site last May, I have been contacted by many people with a connection to the Hoo Peninsula – people living here now, th...

I went to Lower Stoke last week to take at look at the E.ON public exhibition about their pipeline proposals on the Hoo Peninsula. This exhi...

Join a guided walk at RSPB Northward Hill, with a Reserve Warden, to the Heronry viewpoint to watch the stunning sight of thousands of rooks...

Residents on the Hoo Peninsula recently received a newsletter from E.ON. This gave details of their consultation into proposals for a Carbon...

Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre (MALSC) has increased the number of photographs viewable online. The site now boasts 2,000 images o...

I recently bought this old postcard (series no 5396), entitled ‘On the Medway’, showing the Church of St. Peter & St. Paul in Upper Stok...

I sometimes manage to find old postcards and photographs of the area. This one shows the United Methodist Church at Lower Stoke and was publ...

Many family mysteries are best left unsolved, but when the mystery relates to people long since gone, there really shouldn’t be a danger of ...

My father recently found his old bat and ball (pictured below) which I remember using when playing Bat and Trap at his pub near Canterbury. ...

Hoo St. Werburgh Parish Church present their Spring Concert on Saturday 5 March at 7.30pm. The concert includes international soprano Christ...

On New Year’s Day, I headed for another RSPB Nature Reserve, this time at Cliffe Pools. I started out from Cliffe village on Pond Hill and t...

As a member of Kent Wildlife Trust, it’s excellent to read in their latest magazine (Wild Kent) that they have been awarded £35,000 by Medwa...

On New Year’s Eve, I went to RSPB Northward Hill, between Cooling and High Halstow, to explore some of their trails. After checking the deta...