The Kentish Lady Promotional Film
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This is a promotional film we made for 'The Kentish Lady' which is based in Maidstone.
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Take a day cruise on the River Medway by hopping on board the delightful Kentish Lady experience in Maidstone, Kent.
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Allington Castle Wedding Venue in Maidstone Kent
Allington Castle weddings promise a very special day for your and your guests. Based in Maidstone, Kent on the river Medway makes it possible to arrive by the Kentish Lady riverboat too!
River Medway through Maidstone town centre.
Filmed on board the Kentish Lady (kentishlady.co.uk)
Baby Blue in Maidstone
Here is a short film made for those who may want to see the Millenium Bridge in Madstone, Kent, which was erected in 2000 (you don't say). It starts with a view over the River Medway with The Kentish Lady floating in to moor up at the river's edge....and it continues with footage walking over the Millenium Bridge...with views of All Saints Church and the riverside view of The Archbishop's Palace. It is lovely down by the river and Maidstone Borough Council must be praised, I guess, for making it such an attractive spot.
The music is Baby Blue by Maidstone-based band Unlucky Fried Kitten featuring Andy Fraser (Andy Export) and Rio Fraser...vocals and keyboards respectively.
Maidstone is the county town of Kent, England, 32 miles (51 km) south-east of London. The River Medway runs through the centre of the town linking Maidstone to Rochester and the Thames Estuary. Historically, the river was a source and route for much of the town's trade. Maidstone was the centre of the agricultural county of Kent, known as the Garden of England. There is evidence of a settlement in the area dating back to beyond the Stone Age.
The town is within the borough of Maidstone. In 2001, the town had a population of 75,000.
Maidstone's economy has changed over the years from being involved in much heavy industry: now light industry predominates; and to more service industries.
Unlucky Fried Kitten are a pop band from Maidstone in Kent....in the South Eastern part of the glorious land of England in the United Kingdom.
Unlucky Fried Kitten ( a pop band) were formed in 1995 by Andy Export (aka Andy Fraser) and they have played all over the South East and beyond. Their brand of indie-pop-punk can be heard on many studio and live albums.
Current Line-Up as at August 2008:
Justin Older...guitar
Rio Fraser....keyboards
Andy Export....singing and guitar
Albums = Wheeling The Old Metal Chair Towards Me, Unlucky Fried Kitten Present Loserville.com, Strategies of the Sub-Class, Burial Ground Lane, Monsters From Space.
Singles= Speed Camera, Loserville.com, News of the World, Baby Blue, Kitten On Your Doorstep, I Am A Robot, Shooting Star.
Unlucky Fried Kitten's influences include Sparks, Ian Dury, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Adam Ant, Gary Numan, The Ramones, the Buzzcocks, Bolan, Bowie, Queen, Generation X, Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, Robyn Hitchcock, The Only Ones, The Perfect Disaster, Nirvana, The Pixies, Bongwater, David Essex, Slik, Sweet, Slade, The Stranglers, The Cure, The Smiths, The Manic Street Preachers, Morrissey, The Polecats, Pizt, The Meteors, Demented Are Go, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, The Legendary Pink Dots.
Andy Export in the Media
Previous appearances and references have included Sky TV, Jonathan Ross Radio Show, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps sit-com, Robert Elms Show on Radio London, Invicta Radio, Kent Rocks on Radio kent (various times) Bruno brookes Show on radio 1, London Weekend Television, Nuthurst FM (with the legendary Nick The DJ)
Unlucky Fried Kitten videos can be found on YouTube, Blip-tv, vimeo, trueview, revver, grouper, msn soapbox, nme.com, nme tv, myspace tv, ifilm, indie charts, motionbox, metacafe, dailymotion...and more.
Unlucky Fried Kitten have a group on Facebook.....dedicated to Unlucky Fried Kitten (a pop band)
Unlucky Fried Kitten can also be found on LastFM and ReverbNation.
Easy on the Medway
Short video of trip up the river Medway to Wateringbury to the little boat Easy's new mooring place.
Christchurch Harbour
The view out over Christchurch harbour whilst I was eating my fish and chips
Maidstone Floods - River Medway - Christmas Day Before And After Comparisons
This is a short film about the Christmas day floods in and around Maidstone 2013. It shows a comparison of water levels during and after the flooding. The flood footage was filmed on Christmas day and the normal water levels were filmed two days later when the water had returned to a more normal level.
The opening scene is filmed at The Mallows housing estate in Springfield, Kent.
Making our way towards Maidstone town centre, we pass Maidstone Rowing Club and see the signpost on the towpath awash and looking over to LA Fitness we see the gym is also flooding. The town houses by Maidstone East Railway bridge are close to flooding. And boats moored by the railway bridge are well above their normal level. The high views above the river are taken from Maidstone East Railway footbridge and is a good comparison for how much the River Medway has swollen.
The A229 is closed by police to road traffic and the Fremlin Walk Shopping Centre car park and surrounding area is also flooded. We then moved up to the old St Peters Wharf and you can see more of the Fremlin Shopping centre and a comparison of St Peters Bridge built in 1977, which normally has a headroom clearance of 3.7 metres. On Christmas day clearance is reduced to less than a metre. The older Maidstone Town Bridge built in 1879 and designed by Sir Joseph Basalgette, famed for designing London's Thames Embankment and the Victorian sewer system, which still serves London to this day.
Maidstone Town Bridge is 3.7 metres above the normal water level at the peak of the centre arch and can normally allows boats of 2.55 metres air draft to pass safely. The Town bridge at the height of the flood has about 50cm clear at the centre arch and is holding back some of the water from flooding lower downstream.
We now look further upstream towards the Archbishop's Palace which was built in the 14th century and would have seen the river flood here many times in it's almost 700-year history. The subways under Maidstone's busy roads are completely submerged and pedestrians are left to dodge the traffic in the one-way system overground. The pigeon that appears to look at the footpath closed sign before stopping made me laugh.
In the second half of the film we head downstream to the normally idyllic location of Allington Lock, the tidal limit of the River Medway. The lock is well under water and a good comparison of water levels can been seen.
The Malta Inn, originally built in 1784 to serve the sailors and bargemen bringing goods to Chatham Dockyard from the garden of England, was one of four such pubs named after oversea territories. The former Gibraltar Inn is located slightly further up stream and is now a private residence.
The Malta Inn, currently part of the Beefeater group, has an upstairs kitchen and restaurant with views over the river. This allowed them to stay open and provide Christmas dinners, much to the relief of it's customers who had probably booked well in advance.
Next we look at Allington sluice gate, which was commissioned in 1937 after severe flooding on the Medway in 1925, 1926 & 1927. There are marks by the doorway of the Environmental Agency (EA) office, carved into the stone showing previous floodwater levels. The EA manage the non-tidal Medway navigation. This flood was about the same height as the 1911 flood and it's interesting to note that the floods of 1927 are another 50cm higher.
There is some lovely old achive film from Pathe News, which shows the opening of Allington sluice gate and can been seen on their website.
The moored boats at Allington lock can been seen with mooring lines straining from the increased water level. One motor boat has broken it's mooring further upstream and has been washed up against the sluice gate buoys and eventually comes to rest below the gates in a capsized position. The former lifeboat, Dowager of London (previously named Rosa Woodd & Phylliss) is a Dunkirk Little ship veteran and has experienced far more hostile waters in her life, both at the hell of Dunkirk, where she made three return trips, and also during her 30 years service as a RNLI lifeboat, where she is credited with saving 143 lives.
Further upstream, another motor boat cruiser can been seen flooded and wrecked, the owners will surely be heartbroken when they see their sunken dream. The llamas at Allington Castle are oblivious to the carnage on the river below and are enjoying the luscious grass that the rain has provided. The final view of a rainbow reminds us that even though nature can be a cruel mistress, she can also be beautiful. Thanks for watching
Music is from the album 'Breaking Out' by Mick Nolan.
Track 1. Red Moon Blue Sun
Track 2. When I Close My Eyes
The Small House at Allington 17 - Courcy Castle
Blowing up the London Eye - FXGuru
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Canterbury /ˈkæntərb(ə)ri, -bɛr-/ is an historic English cathedral city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, which lies at the heart of the City of Canterbury, a local government district of Kent in South East England. It lies on the River Stour.
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(new)A-Class driving school, for driving lessons in Gillingham, Medway and now covering all of Kent.
A-Class driving school, for driving lessons in Gillingham, Medway and now covering all of Kent.
The Old Barn Bed & Breakfast Bethersden Ashford
Stay and enjoy bed and breakfast in a converted 18th century listed Kentish Barn with exposed beamed bedrooms and mouth watering breakfasts. The Old Barn is situated in the heart of the Darling buds of May country, and is a good central base for visiting all the local sights. This hotel provides a central base for visiting all the local sights, Canterbury, Dixter, Pluckley, Rye, Sissinghurst, Smarden, Tenterden and The Marsh. The hotel is situated mid way between Ashford and Tenterden just on the edge of Bethersden village.