A report on River Medway, Upnor and Chatham Dockyard

Arethusa Venture Centre, with figure-head, Lower Upnor.
Chatham Dockyard in 1790 (by Nicholas Pocock)
Dusk at Lower Upnor on the Medway Estuary
The Older London Stone standing in front of the fence of the Arethusa Venture Centre.
The Dockyard as depicted by Robert Dodd in 1789
Frindsbury Church above the former entrance to the Thames and Medway Canal
A Thames Barge sails past the depot: Upnor Castle (left), 'B' Magazine (centre), No. 5 Shell Store (right).
Engraving of "Chatham Dockyard from Fort Pitt" from Ireland's History of Kent, Vol. 4, 1831. Facing p. 349. Drawn by G. Sheppard, engraved by R. Roffe.
Lower Saxony arms coat of arms
RE assault boat training at Upper Upnor
17th-century painting of naval vessels moored on the River Medway, viewed from Chatham with Rochester Bridge in the background.
The Medway flows through Tonbridge in many channels. The South Eastern Main Line crosses the Medway.
Former 'B' Magazine (1857) undergoing refurbishment.
Dutch Attack on the Medway, June 1667 by Pieter Cornelisz van Soest, painted c. 1667. The captured ship is right of centre.
The Botany stream forms another channel in Tonbridge.
Former Dry Guncotton Store (right, 1895)
1884 map, showing the 'Royal Dock Yard' (centre) with the river to the west, new extension to the north, barracks and fortifications to the east.
Tonbridge Castle, a motte-and-bailey castle from 1066.
Left to right: former No 3 Shell Store (1883), Mine Testing Room (1905) and Wet Guncotton Store (1895)
Armour plating being fitted to HMS Royal Oak at Chatham, c. 1862.
The River Medway passes Tonbridge Castle and passes under Big Bridge.
Left to right: Main entrance, former Filled Mine Store (1904), former Filled Shell Store (1904)
HMS Empress of India in No 8 Dock, with No 1 Boiler Shop in the background, c. 1897.
Oak Weir Lock
Plate-bending roller, installed in No 5 Machine Shop in 1913 and now preserved at the Historic Dockyard.
River Bourne enters the Medway
The Dockyard extension viewed from Upnor, c.1910.
Sluice Weir, on the right is the lock
Navy Day at HMNB Chatham, c.1977
The sluice at Yalding
Rennie's No 3 Dock of 1816–21; today it contains HMS Ocelot, the last Royal Navy vessel built at Chatham.
Hampstead Lane Lock, Yalding
at Chatham Historic Dockyard
Bow Bridge, Wateringbury
The topsail schooner Julia visiting the middle basin in 2006; behind her is the St Mary's Island housing estate
Teston Lock
Police Section House, one of the Dockyard's many listed buildings
Upstream from Teston Bridge
The Commissioner's House (1704), was built for Captain George St Lo, who found the previous house unsuitable. It remains the oldest surviving naval building in England.
Barges moored on the Medway at Aylesford
The Ordnance Storekeeper's house at the heart of the former Gun Wharf
Medieval bridge at Aylesford
The Gun Wharf, c.1890: the 1717 Grand Store can be seen left of centre (with the Dockyard's Anchor Wharf storehouse in the distance beyond). The surviving carpenters' shop and machine shop are on the right.
Grain and Thamesport, from Horrid Hill, Gillingham.
The Library (former machine shop)
The Grain Tower at low tide.
Surviving 1757 block from the original Infantry Barracks
The mouth of the Medway, looking from Grain to Sheerness.
Kitchener Barracks (1950s extension, demolished in 2017).
And into the Thames, youngsters at Grain with Southend beyond.
The Royal Marine Barracks in the Second World War.
M2 crossing the Medway.
Royal School of Military Engineering (1872) and Boer War Memorial Arch (1902) at Brompton Barracks.
Isle of Grain and the Medway Estuary from the air
The Garrison Church of St Barbara in Maxwell Road continues to serve Brompton Barracks.
Allington Lock and Sluice gates
HMS Pembroke: former officers' quarters
The Clocktower Building
Sail and Colour Loft
Masthouses and Mould Loft
Timber Seasoning sheds
Wheelwrights' shop
Joiners' Shop
Brunel Sawmill
Lower Boat House and North Mast Pond
No 3 Covered Slip
No 3 Covered Slip (interior)
Nos 4-6 Covered Slips
No 6 Covered Slip (interior)
No 7 Covered Slip
No 7 Covered Slip (interior)
Slip covers viewed from the river
No 2 Dry Dock
No 3 Dry Dock
No 4 Dry Dock
South Dock pumping station
Commissioner's House
The Commissioner's House (garden view)
The entrance to the Ice House
The Edwardian conservatory
Officers' Terrace
The Officers' Stables
The Main Gate from outside
The Main Gate from inside
The bell mast
The Guardhouse
The Cashier's Office
Assistant Queen's Harbourmaster's Office
Dockyard Church
Dockyard Church (interior)
The Admiral's Office
The Captain of the Dockyard's House and flagstaff
Anchor Wharf Store Houses
Hemp Houses and Hatchelling House
Hemp Houses and Double Ropewalk
Double Ropewalk and Black Yarn House to right
Laying the Rope
Looking at the Traveller
Tops
The Traveller
No 1 Smithery
Lead and Paint Mill
Iron Foundry (left)
No 1 Machine Shop
Galvanising Shop
Chain Cable Shed
Expanse of water in No 2 Basin
View down the length of the former No 7 Dock towards No 1 Basin (now Chatham Marina)
Remains of No 8 Machine Shop with No 1 Boiler Shop behind it
Dock pumping station (its 80 ft chimney, formerly on the plinth to the right, has been removed)
Bell Mast on Leviathan Way
Combined Ship Trade Office
Former No 1 Boiler Shop (with clock)
Former No 1 Boiler Shop (interior)
Former central offices

Chatham Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent.

- Chatham Dockyard

They are in the parish of Frindsbury Extra on the western bank of the River Medway.

- Upnor

Upnor Castle was built as an artillery fort between 1559 and 1567 in order to protect Chatham Dockyard and the associated naval anchorage.

- Upnor

The illustrations include the castles at Queenborough, Upnor, Leybourne, Tonbridge and Hever; Penshurst Place; and the bridges at Teston, Maidstone, Aylesford, East Farleigh, Barming, Branbridges and Tonbridge.

- River Medway

For the 1999 film The Mummy the river was filmed at Chatham Dockyard, in an imitation of a "port at Cairo".

- River Medway

The oldest surviving barracks in the Chatham area is in Upnor; dating from 1718, it housed the detachment of 64 men responsible for guarding the gunpowder store in Upnor Castle.

- Chatham Dockyard

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