Talk:Strood

message: also i may add something about the new houses they r building around the Chalk Pit between cuxton road and sycamore road/ rushdean road. ill need to do more research but i have seen it and it looks like a big project. they have already completely changed the landscape there and r starting inside the pit i think. more research needed.
Pratj 00:40, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  new houses 

message: I have added some images, but believe that it is impossible to take one picture that is representative of Strood.
* Anything photogenic is actually in Frindsbury.
* Anything photogenic has already been 
** demolished
** burnt down
** built over
* Anything that exists is in a backwater no-one ever visits so won't recognise
* Or is too small to have significance
Feel free to improve on anything I have provided.ClemRutter 21:59, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The pictures 

message: "The model and television presenter Kelly Brook is also from this Kentish town and Gedas."
Doesn't make sense to me so snipping the last two words. Sharm 22:47, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gedas? 

message: this page badly needs reorganisation. make it more similar to the medway article i have been working on.
Pratj 18:22, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  reorganisation 

message: The model and television presenter Kelly Brook is also from this Kentish town.- 
:ClemRutter removed the above line wiht html coment tags
::IIRC she went Thomas Aveling, making her from Rochester/Chatham, see http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0111639/bio Pickle UK then made the above coment in the article
:::I can't recall meeting her Does anyone recall her. Unfortunately, that she went to Thomas Aveling, doesn't mean that she wasn't born here. 
:::*Her parents could have moved. 
:::*But Thomas Aveling what the nearest mixed Secondary Modern, when Rede Court was closed- and many Strood kids did cross the bridge. 
::: Until we have a citation, I  suggest we leave it commented out. ClemRutter 22:03, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  The brief dig about by me, and from what i do recall (Medway News probably, where as 'local girl made good' she occasional features) is it has always been said she was from Rochester - thus i would normally attribute her to being from Rochester, rather than Strood, but people have been known to say Strood is in Rochester... Thus i'ld strike her from the Strood page as she is more than likely to be from Rochester, although its quiet possible she is actually from Strood. Pickle 23:09, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Kelly Brooks Saga 

message: The following was posted: 
*My comments in italics.
Political representation in Strood at a local government level is spread across three wards, specifically Strood North, Strood South and Strood Rural. These wards are represented on Medway Council which is a unitary authority established in 1998.
:No- Strood is not in Rural in the same way that Strood was in Rochester and never in Strood Rural District Council- read the references below.
The latest political composition can be found on the Medway Local Election 2007 website
:If you want to post the Strood info- please extract it and format it in a table. That detail neds to go in the Medway item
Strood is traditionally represented by all three major parties at local government. 
:Wrong. Strood has not been represented by a Liberal Democrat or Independant Liberal Democrat in the last 30 years. It has been Tory, and Labour.
*Strood Conservatives
*Strood Labour
:This is not a link farm- this is a form of political spam
*Medway Liberal Democrats
:I have served on the council with Geoff, and he is a welcome guest any time he wishes to knock on my door- but he is a Gillingham member- no connection with Strood at a LG level. The LibDems do not have any organisation on the Strood side of the river. 
Strood is part of the Medway Constituency and is represented by Labour MP, Bob Marshall-Andrews
:Unless this becomes wiki policy to plug the MP for each neighbourhood then this is out of place
:In doing this edit, reference to Strood Rural District council was erased.
:In signing this edit, as a former elected member I declare an interest as an active member of one of the political parties mentioned.ClemRutter 22:05, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I am disappointed with the user above, as I am for my extreme boldness in removing dumbing-down as it currently reads, completely (or trying to!).  I will concede I drifted off topic in how in Kent a Liberal Democrat or other "third party" not in the "major two parties" has basically a gnat's chance in hell of getting elected as MP (for any seat). However the other points of non dumbing-down, such as what's national, what's local stand.  Got it?- Adam37 Talk 12:22, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Political Representation

message: I presume the reference to Hogarth's 1772 visit means William Hogarth - but that's impossible as he died in 1764. What's the source for that statement? Colonies Chris (talk) 22:09, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hogarth 

message: What's happening?  Edits by the above user have been identified as vandalism by ClueBot NG and by Callenecc but instead of being reverted seem to have been deleted.  Is this new policy, and if so how does anyone check that the bot has got it right? Martin of Sheffield (talk) 15:25, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Harrybobthetod 

message: In a bid to sound errudite I was Googling for Bourne flood strood- and I came up with this:
Natural solution-caves in the chalk, in contrast, are rare. Some small ones, which can be explored by those happy to wriggle through small holes underground, are known in the cliffs at Beachy Head, some way above the beach, where marine erosion has exposed them. These are genuine groundwater solution caves, now accessible as a result of the cliff receding as the sea has undercut its base; they are quite distinct from the much more common wave-eroded caves at beach level. The largest recorded natural chalk cave in Britain was discovered, at a depth of 120 feet underground, during the construction of the waterworks at Strood (Kent). This chamber is 'over 17 feet high, of considerable width and length, and from this ... [there is] ... a natural adit through which a person can walk for about 60 feet.' William Coles-Finch(1908), the resident engineer, published plans, sections, and several photographs taken inside this remarkable cavity.
http://www.bournesociety.org.uk/bournesoc/a-celebration-of-the-bourne/88-the-east-surrey-bournes-a-19th-century-scientific-detective-story.html  — Preceding unsigned comment added by ClemRutter (talk • contribs) 19:40, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Strood caves

message: The citations and references for this are a bit of a mix, and many are poorly done.  Unless anyone objects in the next week, I'll have a go at tidying them.  I'll use Harvard style with bibliographic information in the references section and  style citations linked to them. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 17:39, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I accept total credit for the appalling state of the references-- shall I say that I was young and foolish then.  And Wikipedia was at its toddler stage of development. IMHO- go for s. -- Clem Rutter (talk) 18:30, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  Martin of Sheffield (talk) 23:06, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

text: Deep respect- but I think that there is a lot of work to do first on getting the facts sorted. We must sort out what we mean by Strood. What I call Strood has been officially Rochester since about 1300. Strood rural district council never included Strood. I sacrificed a few commas after making the conscious decision that the surrounding prose was too wobbly to save. Sorry to offend. Are you still on board to attempt a GA on this one- love to learn your technique. -- Clem Rutter (talk) 19:49, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, I understand. My intentions were to get this to GA, but on second thought, this does need a lot of work and discussion. --AmaryllisGardener  talk 19:56, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: If no one objects sometime next week I'll be converting all this "SFN" crap to actual references - I admit it looks nice however when it comes to citing this page it's a pain in the arse to have to try and cite anything and it probably explains why no newbies cite this page because no one really knows how too,
FWIW I've never seen an article use :Template:SFN and so as it's very uncommon way of citing I don't see why we should use it either especially when it's not the easiest way of doing things either,
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replies: text: *I disagree - Infact it's the hardest way of citing it and no other pages use this format so therefore I see no valid reason as to why we should continue using sfn, Don't get me wrong I can use it as I have done plenty of times on this article however out of the 5 million articles on this site as far as I can see this is the only article that uses it throughout, We're meant to make citing easier not harder. –Davey2010Talk 23:31, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: *Nevermind this template is actually used alot ... just I've never noticed before, Still don't like the template however there's not much one can do about it, Ah well thanks anyway, –Davey2010Talk 23:40, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  SFN Refs 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: A step too far. This is unreferenced and an essay- misrepresenting the facts. There are two electoral registers, local government open to all EC citizens and the limited one for parliament and referenda. There is a big debate over the parliamentary boundaries and the former Strood RDC boundaries. Kent in the last few calculations has always needed a fractional number of MPs on numbers- which resulted in the anomaly of Chatham and Aylesford being allowed. You also have the question of why North Kent (Medway) became unitary and North West Kent (Dartford/Gravesend) didn't? Why also didn't Higham return to Medway. The boundary commission couldn't resolve the matter to their satisfaction- but made the exception. There is a big story here far bigger than faraway Pratts Bottom. I think you need to make a site visit- I'll put on the coffee.--ClemRutter (talk) 12:31, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Being slightly too bold 

message: Among its broadest named neighbourhoods are the "Earl estate" and Marlowe Park...
:What does this mean? Valetude (talk) 02:07, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarify, please 

message: Which county is Strood in? — GhostInTheMachine talk to me 18:27, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: GhostInTheMachine - Kent .... –Davey2010Talk 18:30, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  County?