A report on Upnor

Arethusa Venture Centre, with figure-head, Lower Upnor.
The Older London Stone standing in front of the fence of the Arethusa Venture Centre.
A Thames Barge sails past the depot: Upnor Castle (left), 'B' Magazine (centre), No. 5 Shell Store (right).
RE assault boat training at Upper Upnor
Former 'B' Magazine (1857) undergoing refurbishment.
Former Dry Guncotton Store (right, 1895)
Left to right: former No 3 Shell Store (1883), Mine Testing Room (1905) and Wet Guncotton Store (1895)
Left to right: Main entrance, former Filled Mine Store (1904), former Filled Shell Store (1904)

Lower Upnor and Upper Upnor are two small villages in Medway, Kent, England.

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Arethusa Venture Centre, with figure-head, Lower Upnor.

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Chatham Dockyard in 1790 (by Nicholas Pocock)

Chatham Dockyard

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Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent.

Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent.

Chatham Dockyard in 1790 (by Nicholas Pocock)
The Dockyard as depicted by Robert Dodd in 1789
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.
17th-century painting of naval vessels moored on the River Medway, viewed from Chatham with Rochester Bridge in the background.
Dutch Attack on the Medway, June 1667 by Pieter Cornelisz van Soest, painted c. 1667. The captured ship is right of centre.
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.
Armour plating being fitted to HMS Royal Oak at Chatham, c. 1862.
HMS Empress of India in No 8 Dock, with No 1 Boiler Shop in the background, c. 1897.
Plate-bending roller, installed in No 5 Machine Shop in 1913 and now preserved at the Historic Dockyard.
The Dockyard extension viewed from Upnor, c.1910.
Navy Day at HMNB Chatham, c.1977
Rennie's No 3 Dock of 1816–21; today it contains HMS Ocelot, the last Royal Navy vessel built at Chatham.
at Chatham Historic Dockyard
The topsail schooner Julia visiting the middle basin in 2006; behind her is the St Mary's Island housing estate
Police Section House, one of the Dockyard's many listed buildings
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.
The Ordnance Storekeeper's house at the heart of the former Gun Wharf
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.
The Library (former machine shop)
Surviving 1757 block from the original Infantry Barracks
Kitchener Barracks (1950s extension, demolished in 2017).
The Royal Marine Barracks in the Second World War.
Royal School of Military Engineering (1872) and Boer War Memorial Arch (1902) at Brompton Barracks.
The Garrison Church of St Barbara in Maxwell Road continues to serve Brompton Barracks.
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

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.

Peking (ship)

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Steel-hulled four-masted barque.

Steel-hulled four-masted barque.

In July 1933, she was moved to a new permanent mooring off Upnor on the River Medway, where she served as a children's home and training school.

Straight-tusked elephant

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Extinct species of elephant that inhabited Europe and Western Asia during the Middle and Late Pleistocene (781,000–30,000 years before present).

Extinct species of elephant that inhabited Europe and Western Asia during the Middle and Late Pleistocene (781,000–30,000 years before present).

Complete skeleton in Rome.
Life restoration
Skeleton in Naturkunde Museum, Berlin
Illustration from 1916
Full-size reconstruction in the Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon
Replica of a P. antiquus on the edge of the Elm forest at Schöningen
Models

Two sites were found in the Lower Thames basin, one at Upnor, Kent and one at Aveley, Essex.

Preserved Arethusa figurehead in Upnor on the River Medway

HMS Arethusa (1849)

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50-gun fourth-rate sailing frigate of the Royal Navy, was launched in 1849 from the Pembroke Dockyard and served in the Crimean War.

50-gun fourth-rate sailing frigate of the Royal Navy, was launched in 1849 from the Pembroke Dockyard and served in the Crimean War.

Preserved Arethusa figurehead in Upnor on the River Medway
HMS St George and Arethusa on the Hamoaze near Bull Point in 1860, by Edward Snell (engineer)
Arethusa at the Bombardment of Odessa by the English and French Steam Squadron in 1854
An invite from Mrs Norton Disney to watch trainees from the Arethusa and learn about the training ship

In 1933 the wooden frigate was no longer viable, and was replaced by the steel-hulled ship Peking, which was moored at Upnor on the Medway, and renamed Arethusa.

The London or 'Crow' Stone at Chalkwell, Southend, which formerly marked the seaward limit of the authority of the City of London.

London Stone (riparian)

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Name given to a number of boundary stones that stand beside the rivers Thames and Medway, which formerly marked the limits of jurisdiction of the City of London.

Name given to a number of boundary stones that stand beside the rivers Thames and Medway, which formerly marked the limits of jurisdiction of the City of London.

The London or 'Crow' Stone at Chalkwell, Southend, which formerly marked the seaward limit of the authority of the City of London.
Plaque on the Crow Stone, Chalkwell
London Stone, Staines-upon-Thames
London Stone, Yantlet Creek
The original Crow Stone from 1775, removed in 1837. It now stands in front of Prittlewell Priory in Southend-on-Sea, a few miles inland from its original location
London Stones, Lower Upnor, Kent

Two London Stones stand at, between the Arethusa Venture Centre and the River Medway in Lower Upnor, Kent.