The Memories
This page has been added to collate stories, memories and anecdotes
I’ll use this page to collect everyones stories and memories, whether fact or fiction, family myth of just funny memories of the past until there is enough content to form a dedicated page.
Did you know ?
Uncle Bill never was from Brierley Hill!
Do you remember?
Who said ‘Oops, pardon, Mrs Arden, there’s a pig in your garden! ‘
Do you remember?
Who said ‘If things don’t be altered they’ll stop as they are ‘
Im memory of Thomas Bennett
HMS Martin – M-class destroyer
HMS Martin was an M-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, launched at the Tyneside yard of Vickers-Armstrongs on 12 December 1940. She had a busy but brief wartime career, being sunk by the German submarine U-431 on 10 November 1942 off Algiers. Tom Bennett was one of the young sailors who perished when HMS Martin was torpedoed.
A memorial to the memory of Uncle Tom lives on at the Chatham Naval Memorial, with an inscription of his name on Panel 57, Column 1
Chatham Naval Memorial is a large obelisk situated in the town of Chatham, Kent, which is in the Medway Towns. The memorial is a feature of the Great Lines Heritage Park. The huge expanse of the Great Lines was in its own right a layer of defence to protect Chatham Dockyard from attack.
