History Pages Updated • Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
We have now updated our History pages to include the second half of 2012. Click here to read. Once again we acknowledge the work of Peter Wood in compiling this information. Peter Wood
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Exciting! • Wednesday, September 26th, 2012
One regular reader from New Zealand finds our building redevelopment exciting and has sent us a lengthy comment on a recent post (Built on site of Brewery). We thought his comment so interesting that we have copied it to this post to make it easier for readers to access. Andrew Smith-Wellington City Corps
Time Capsule prepared • Tuesday, September 4th, 2012
The time capsule to be placed in the new building at Church Street has been assembled. Adrian Horwood tells us that over 50 items were received from members of the corps in response to his recent request for contributions. The items displayed
Memories 7 • Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
Not long to go now – we’re in the 1990s. All the pictures are from the production of ‘Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat’.
Memories 6 • Tuesday, August 14th, 2012
Photos of the children during the 1980s
Memories 4 • Wednesday, August 8th, 2012
Following yesterday’s photos of the building progress let’s look back once again, this time to the 1960s
Memories 3 • Thursday, July 26th, 2012
Pictures of the corps during the 1950s The Guides at camp at Sunbury Court – 1950-51
History update • Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
We have updated our History page to include the first 6 months of 2012. Click here to read. not to mention computers
Memories 2 • Wednesday, July 4th, 2012
Here are some pictures of the Young People’s Corps from the 1930s and 40s 1933
Memories • Thursday, June 28th, 2012
Regular readers will remember that in May we celebrated 100 years in our secondary hall where our Sunday School has met consistently for all of that time. Red brick building to the right of main hall
A nostalgic evening • Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
Last Saturday evening was spent enjoying some great memories from former years and saw the return of a number of those who were ‘juniors’ or workers here to join in the celebrations. They were all young once!
YP Corps Centenary • Sunday, April 15th, 2012
Click here to register your memories of Chatham YP Corps so that they can be shared on the week-end of 19/20th May when its centenary will be celebrated. Contributions are welcome from all sources, including overseas, so rack your brains and let us know all that you can remember from the past 100 years.
History Update • Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
Our Corps History page has been updated to include a summary of the last six months of 2011. Click here to read. Once again we acknowledge the work done by Peter Wood in drafting this update. Peter Wood
History update • Friday, July 8th, 2011
This week we have updated our history pages to include the first half of 2011. Once again we are indebted to Peter Wood for the basic material input. Peter Wood
130 Years of witness • Friday, April 1st, 2011
The War Cry of 10 March 1881 announced the procurement of a hall in New Brompton for the purpose of extending the influence of the Chatham Salvation Army corps, then just 8 years old. This was the beginning of the Gillingham corps which has now achieved 130 years of ministry to the people of that [...]