Author | Extract |
| Cobbett William | Due to a misunderstanding he enlisted in a foot regiment instead... |
| Dickens Charles | Childhood in Chatham... |
| Dickens Charles | Memories of Chatham Some of Dickens’s most vivid memories of the town must have been of the dockyard area where his father worked in the Naval Pay Office... |
| Dickens Charles | 3... |
| Kipling Rudyard | Throughout his life, Kipling retained a fascination with the sea and ships... |
| Pepys Samuel | Despite the air of levity and occasional coarseness to be found in his famous diary, Pepys was one of the most hard-working members of the Navy Board; his trips to Chatham encompassed a busy schedule of meetings with Commissioner Petts in charge of the dockyard, inspection of new ships, a visit to the newly built Rope House in 1665 and a critical eye on the dockyard expansion... |
| Waugh Evelyn | When war broke out in September 1939, Waugh was 37 and like Guy Crouchback, the hero of his trilogy, he had to make several attempts before he was accepted for active service... |
| Wells H. G. | The early years of his own life were marked by poverty, poorly paid toil and an awareness of the rigid nature of the class system... |
