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unusual facts about Gillingham, Medway



1985–86 Huddersfield Town F.C. season

He was top scorer with 12 goals, even though he was on loan at Gillingham in the latter part of the season, before moving to Lokeren in Belgium at the end of the season.

2000–01 Gillingham F.C. season

Former Gillingham captain Andy Hessenthaler was appointed player-manager, having previously served as player-coach and led the club to a satisfying 13th place finish in the Gills' first ever season in Division One.

Alan Wiley

Also in April 2010, he was criticised after mysteriously awarding a penalty to Leeds United after striker Jermaine Beckford tripped over his own shoelace outside the area in a match against Gillingham

Aulus Plautius

However, Plautius defeated first Caratacus, then Togodumnus, on the rivers Medway and Thames.

Bobby Folds

Bedford manager Basil Hayward took over as manager of Gillingham of the Football League Third Division in 1966 and recruited a number of players from his former club, including Folds, who joined the "Gills" as the club's first ever apprentice-professional.

Dale Tempest

Born in England but spent much of his youth in Peebles, Scotland, Tempest had played for several English teams including Fulham, Huddersfield Town, Gillingham and Colchester United before arriving in Hong Kong.

Dick Tydeman

In 1976 Tydeman followed his former manager Andy Nelson to Charlton Athletic for a fee of £70,000 and stayed with the Addicks for five years before returning to Gillingham as one of new manager Keith Peacock's first signings.

Donata Rimšaitė

She got a Silver at the Women’s Final of the Modern Pentathlon World Cup 2010, held in Medway.

Edward D'Avenant

According to John Walker in Sufferings of the Clergy, Davenant suffered sequestration at Gillingham during the First English Civil War, when his family numbered seven sons and five daughters, being replaced by Thomas Andrews.

Frank Gillingham

Born in Tokyo to a J. Gillingham, he was educated at Dulwich College and Durham University.

Geoff Wiles

He joined the local branch of the Youth Hostels Association and rode with enthusiasts there until a colleague at work at the BP refinery on the Isle of Grain in Kent, south-east England, persuaded him to join the Medway Road Club.

Geography of Kent

the low lying London Clay marshlands along the Thames/Medway estuaries and along the North Kent coast;

George Burley

He played for Gillingham in the 1988–89 season, but was unable to prevent them from being relegated to the Fourth Division.

Gillingham bus disaster

An inquest was held on 14 December 1951 at the Royal Naval Hospital, Gillingham, where many of the injured were being treated, before the North-East Kent Coroner.

In the film Shadowlands, which is set in the 1950s, C. S. Lewis (played by Anthony Hopkins) refers to the Gillingham bus disaster in a lecture on theology as a conspicuous example of terrible and tragic events which happen in the world and which God "allows to happen", and then goes on to explain his opinion on why God behaves that way.

Gillingham, Norfolk

First Eastern Counties run the X2 through the village, which gives access to Beccles, Loddon, Norwich and Lowestoft as well as the smaller surrounding villages and Anglian Bus run the 580 to Beccles, Bungay, Harleston and Diss and the connecting 581 to Beccles and Great Yarmouth and the 146 which runs between Norwich and Lowestoft via Loddon and Beccles.

Halling

Halling railway station, a railway station in the southeastern United Kingdom, on the Medway Valley Line

Hempstead, Kent

It is located on the southern edge of the borough of Medway adjacent to Wigmore and Lordswood and linked to Gillingham and the M2 by the A278 trunk road.

HMS Medway Prize

Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Medway Prize, the name being given to ships that had been captured and taken as prizes by one of the Royal Navy ships named HMS Medway.

Hollingbourne Rural District

Bredhurst (part transferred to Gillingham Borough Council in 1933)

J. W. Tristram

Born at Gillingham, Kent, England, Tristram was the first of eight children to his parents Samuel Herbert Tristram and Hannah Thompson.

Jacob Erskine

Erskine made his Football League debut as a late substitute in Gillingham's opening game of the 2009–10 season on 8 August against Swindon Town, replacing Mark Bentley in a 5–0 win.

Jimmy Boswell

Gillingham manager Archie Clark also signed four other players who had served with Boswell at Barton Stacey and played alongside him in the unit football team, namely Jackie Briggs, George Forrester, Hughie Russell and Vic Hole.

John Hamer

Despite having always been trained by Gary Jones in Gillingham, Hamer has worked with numerous international coaches, including Michael Jiranek and Rinata Jiranek (2005), Tatiana Tarasova (2006) and Texas-based Lorraine Boreman (2006).

John Lankester Parker

In memory of his long association with the Medway area, a road in Rochester, Kent was named after him.

KMFM Medway

In 2004, KMFM Medway was relocated from premises on Rochester High Street to Medway House on Medway City Estate in Strood, where it shares an office with the KM-owned Medway Messenger.

Mangotsfield United F.C.

Darren Carr Mangotsfield United, Bristol Rovers, Newport County, Sheffield United, Crewe Alexandra, Chesterfield, Gillingham, Brighton & Hove Albion.

Maria Stepanova

These players such as Margo Dydek, at 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m), Heidi Gillingham at 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m), and Allyssa DeHaan at 6 ft 9 inches (2.06m) are taller than her.

Medway School of Pharmacy

The Medway School of Pharmacy is a school of pharmacy in South East England.

Medway, Massachusetts

Dennis Crowley, Creator of the iPod application "Foursquare" and a member of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2010.

Milford on Sea

David Peach (Gillingham, Southampton (FA Cup Final 1976), Swindon Town, Orient and England u/23 footballer).

Municipal Council of Penang Island

However, as George Town no longer exists as a legal entity, it appears that George Town's city status has gone the way of the city of Rochester-upon-Medway in England.

Noreuil

A Distinguished Service Order (and his first of two) was awarded to then-Major Noel Medway LOUTIT, an original ANZAC, who 'relieved the pressure' during these operations by working his way partly around the enemy flank and inflicting significant effective opposition.

Pamphill

It was built through the will of Roger Gillingham of the Middle Temple, who left property in Bedfordshire, Hackney and Stepney to trustees, in assurance that they would raise £400 for a close next to Pamphill Green.

Parliamentary train

Gillingham at 0456 to Sheerness, Mondays to Fridays only (return at 2132), using the Sittingbourne West curve.

Pat Gavin

Gavin started out playing for non-league Hanwell Town whilst working as a postman (earning him the nickname "Postman Pat") before he was signed on a short-term contract by Third Division Gillingham towards the end of the 1988-89 season.

Paul Shinners

Shinners made just four appearances for Gillingham in the 1984–85 season, starting just one game.

Prentice School

An adaptation of the Orton-Gillingham method, the Slingerland Approach takes on the three major learning pathways – visual, auditory and kinesthetic (the memory of sequential movement in writing and speech).

Quaife

Based near Sevenoaks, Kent they have two sites, one in Sevenoaks and the other, their OEM production facility, in Gillingham.

Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School

Another house, Tower — named after Jezreel's tower in Gillingham and intended for boys from that borough — was disbanded between the wars.

Steve Banks

During his second run with Gillingham he appeared in the film Green Street.

The Sunmachine and the Ocean

"The Sunmachine And The Ocean" is the first official release from Scottish post-hardcore band The Ocean Fracture, and was produced by Ben Phillips at City Of Dis studios in Gillingham, Kent.

Universities at Medway

The Universities at Medway is a tri-partite collaboration of the University of Greenwich, the University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University on a single campus in Chatham, Medway, South East England.

Violet Vanbrugh

In 1889 she joined the Kendals at the Royal Court Theatre as Lady Gillingham in The Weaker Sex, and at the end of the year travelled with them to the U.S., where she played Lady Ingram in the comedy A Scrap of Paper and in dramas such as The Iron Master, Impulse and A White Lie and comedies such The Weaker Sex.

William Groombridge

William Ironside Groombridge, secretary of English football club Gillingham/New Brompton

William Ironside Groombridge

William Ironside Groombridge was secretary of English football club Gillingham (known for much of his tenure as New Brompton F.C.) from 1896 until 1923.

William Lansdowne

William Lansdowne, Jr., better known as Billy Lansdowne, English former professional footballer who played for West Ham United, Charlton Athletic, Gillingham and Kalmar


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