Contents: Rochester & Strood

* The windmill among the Delce's back gardens

* Fort Clarence, the Medway's guardian

* Purple Haze in Free School Lane  

* The other school in Free School Lane  

* Common place for seedy pubs 

* Prize day out for gentle giants 

* Alternative school song horrified head  

* The redoubtable dame of Watts Avenue  

* The do-good Duguids' hazy surgery

* Royal intrigue on our manor  

* One rail on the towpath ... and one over the canal  

* The PC's son and the brain drain   

* Houdini's escape from Rochester constabulary  

* Two proud schools in the heart of the city   

* Crazy name ... great MP and mourned admiral

* On the Square: a village in the city's heart   

* Ghost image revealed building's past 

* Pitiful shade foretells death on the ward

* Love Lane haunted by half a ghost   

* A rose among the stem shop thorns

* Testing time for Victorian scholars  

* Birthday tragedy under medieval bridge  

* Matthews' shop: a village emporium of delight   

* Starvation in Strood: how workhouse let man die   

* Our sainted city: martyrs who made money for city fathers 

* Bring Dickens's body back to the castle moat!  

* Halcyon days at Brambletree cricket ground  

* When our city brimmed with pride   

* Market hucksters and higlers beware   

* Canal Road, gritty industry zone 

* Strood's lemonade springs  

* Garden memorial to one of the good and great 

* Precipitous mansion sacrificed to industry

 
 
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