On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 08:11:34 UTC, Bob Martin
wrote:

in 711199 20080306 163229 "Bob Eager" wrote:
On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 09:51:19 UTC, Bob Martin
wrote:

in 710952 20080305 220553 "Bob Eager" wrote:

(spent 2 hours getting home from Pembroke tonight - usually takes 40
mins. Bloody French.)

Pembroke to Canterbury via France in 40 minutes?
I thought Concorde had been retired?

You have to know the geography! 'Pembroke' is the old naval base in
Chatham, 30 miles from home. The Sea France strike caused the M20 to be
closed, other roads to become clogged and the M2 (my route home) to come
to a standstill!

I grew up in Sittingbourne so knew HMS Pembroke was at Chatham(*) but I thought
everything naval had gone from Chatham and Sheerness many moons ago.
What's there now?

Universities at Medway! A shared campus with secondary campus for
University of Kent (me), also Greenwich and Christ Church Canterbury.
Greenwich use the old buildings mainly, Kent have two new ones, and
Christchurch have a big new building.

The Drill Hall is now a library (longest one in Europe apparently) and
the mess hall (I think) is now - a mess hall! These are shared.

I find it weird working there as my father, before he died, was involved
for many years regionally with Sea Cadets and Marine cadets, and I keep
thinking that he's seen all these places many times in the base's
previous incarnation.
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