 green bins at blue town, sheerness, isle of sheppey, kent, england April 29, 2008 I'm afraid my latest competition, Guess the Name of the Reclining Naked Lady Competition, has attracted a very low number of entries. That's bad news for me and my popularity as a game show host, but good news for the punters. Lower entry numbers equal a higher chance to win for each contestant. Enter now. Click the button. Do it. I should have realised my competitions were on the slippery slope after the very poorly received Guess the Winner Between Dorking United and Colliers Wood Utd Competition. Entries were sparse and the eventual winner, PJ, hasn't been seen or heard from since I offered him the choice of a print from the Plasticfantastic archives. There's no pleasing some. If he could see the bovine-sized Cow Tuesday Number 1 print I had framed and placed at the top of our stairway, I'm sure he'd come out of hiding. Very nice it looks too. Some interesting stuff I nicked from somewhere else: The first building in Sheerness was a fort built by King Henry VIII of England to prevent enemy ships entering the River Medway and attacking the naval dockyard at Chatham. In 1666, building commenced to replace it with a modern fort, however, this fort was destroyed a year later during the Dutch Raid on the Medway. The Secretary of the Admiralty, Samuel Pepys, subsequently ordered a naval dockyard to be built at Sheerness as an extension to the Chatham dockyard. At the dockyard naval ships would be built, maintained and repaired. The first houses in the town were built by the workmen constructing the dockyard, using materials they were allowed to take from the yard. The grey-blue naval paint they used to paint the houses led to the area becoming known as Blue Houses. This name eventually corrupted to Blue Town, the present name for the northwest area of Sheerness. Holga CGFN + Fujifilm Superia 400 © James Arnold 2008 Comment (8) | Permalink |
