• Home
  • MQPS
    • About MQPS
    • Wish_List
    • Support Us
    • Volunteers
    • The Team
    • Talks and Presentations
    • Medway Queen - West
  • Visit and Contact
    • Medway Queen Events
  • History
  • Shopping
    • Online Shop
    • MQ Models
    • Railway Wagons - 00 Gauge
    • Railway Wagons - N Gauge
  • News
Medway Queen Preservation Society
  • Home
  • MQPS
    • About MQPS
    • Wish_List
    • Support Us
    • Volunteers
    • The Team
    • Talks and Presentations
    • Medway Queen - West
  • Visit and Contact
    • Medway Queen Events
  • History
  • Shopping
    • Online Shop
    • MQ Models
    • Railway Wagons - 00 Gauge
    • Railway Wagons - N Gauge
  • News

Thank you Co-op

27/11/2018

 
​On Saturday 24th November, John Kempton (Chairman of MQPS) was invited to the Co-op store in Chatham Maritime to receive a donation from the store’s Local Community Fund.

As can be seen from the photograph, this amounted to an amazing £3033.69; a great boost to funding for restoration of the upper aft saloon. This branch of the Co-op had raised £9519.17 for distribution on Saturday – a fantastic achievement.

​Our thanks go to the Co-op management and staff and, of course, to all their customers who raised this money towards the restoration of Medway Queen.
Picture
Above: John Kempton accepts the donation cheque from store manager, Katie Charles. Courtesy of Chatham Maritime Co-op Store
Picture
Co-op’s overall score of £9519.17
Courtesy of Chatham Maritime
​Co-op Store
Every time a Co-op member shops at Co-op, 1% of their spending on selected own-brand products and services goes to the local community fund. The money raised by all the members in the community, together with money from shopping bag sales, helps to fund local projects in the area.

Members can choose which cause they want their own 1% to go to. Please register for the scheme if you use the Co-op and select New Medway Steam Packet Co. to help us restore this famous old ship. Any money raised by Co-op members who don’t select a cause is added to the money raised from shopping bag sales and shared equally between the causes in their local area.

The restoration project’s focus is very much on the aft saloon at present with a view to having it up and running as an event venue as quickly as possible. This requires a sympathetic restoration of this compartment, the largest on the ship, together with the forward saloon and its attendant galley to enable hot drinks and light refreshments to be served. The major part of this project is electrical and safety installations together with a need for appropriate upholstery of the bench seating that runs down either side of the saloon. More information and details of how you can help at:
​ www.medwayqueen.co.uk/wish_list
Come and see what we are doing for yourselves. Our last Fun, Food and Craft Day of 2018 on Gillingham Pier will be on Saturday 1st December from 10am until 4pm. Santa will be there and he has promised to switch on Medway Queen’s Christmas Lights during the afternoon.
Picture
Medway Queen’s wake. Courtesy PSPS Collection.

Remembrance

1/11/2018

 
Picture
One of our volunteers has created this remembrance display on board Medway Queen to mark the end of the First World War. HMS Medway Queen did not of course serve in that war but played an active part in the 1939-45 conflict. Her fleet sisters, Queen of Kent and Queen of Thanet, were built as minesweepers for WWI and also served in WWII.

Thanks to Layla Wiseman for creating the display and knitting the poppies and to Judith Maguire for the photograph.

Medway Queen's Christmas List

25/10/2018

 
Picture
We are all familiar with the concept of the “Christmas List”; not quite blackmail but a heavier hint than is otherwise acceptable.... 

Medway Queen now has such a list, dominated at present by the aft saloon and associated works, to make the ship more visitor friendly. Please take a look and contribute where you can.

If it’s after Christmas by the time you get round to it; Medway Queen has a birthday in April and it won’t take us long to change the page title on the website in the New Year! 
Click for Wish List

Medway Queen Christmas Cards Update

19/10/2018

 
Update December 10th. - Despite being a spur of the moment test run with little publicity the Christmas cards have sold well with around 80% gone. There are just 2 packs left in the Visitor Centre and a few available direct from Richard Halton, details  below. Pay by Paypal and I will post them to you FIRST CLASS the following day (time is short). The VC will be open on Saturday 15th December so first come first served!
Picture
New from Reading Support Group
In a trial run to gauge demand, Reading Support Group have produced a design of Christmas cards in support of PS Medway Queen. The cards are approximately 6 inches square and printed on 350gsm card. 40 packs of 10 cards to a single design have been produced to test the market but if demand warrants it a further supply can be obtained very quickly – thanks to online printing!

​The message inside is "Merry Christmas"

The cards will be available to purchase at the AGM on Saturday 27th October but if you can’t get there this year you can order them now from Richard Halton by cheque or PayPal. Packs of 10 cards cost £6 each, plus £1-50 UK P&P (first class) per pack. All proceeds will be passed to MQPS via Reading Support Group.

The cards are also available as a Birthday or Greetings card. These have the same  image but with no text (or holly) and blank inside. The greetings cards are priced and packed individually at £1-80 each.
By PayPal:   richardhalton1502@gmail.com
By post/cheque from Richard Halton,  2 Drury Close, Hook, Royal Wootton Basset, SN4 8EL.
(Cheque payable to “R Halton” please.)

​For all inquiries including overseas postage please email Richard at 
richardhalton1502@gmail.com

Caulking the upper deck

10/9/2018

 
As members will read in the Autumn 2018 issue of Full Ahead (about to be sent out) we have had continual problems with water getting in through the promenade deck. This makes work on the ship more difficult and damages what has previously been done. In one or two sensitive areas such as the electricity distribution board it poses a very real problem. Over the past years we have tried many solutions with varying degrees of success and yet another try is now in hand.
Picture
Picture
Picture
Mick A organised the troops - Ron L, Ron V,  Bob D, William E & Phil J - and, making use of the dry weather today, they meticulously cleaned each length of deck-timber from the aft plated section to the Captain's Cabin.  Once this has been completed they will begin the process of applying the new caulking material which is a rubber-like compound.  You may be thinking this a deja vu moment.  Well, yes, in a way.  We have indeed discussed and attempted re-caulking with the material that came from Bristol and yes we found a number of problems when using it.  However, the new material we are using is a rubbery compound and is applied differently, and more importantly, is in date!  

​The guys are very hopeful this new product will do the job and they'll be monitoring it over the next 12 months. 

Judith Maguire
<<Previous
Forward>>

    Archives

    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    August 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    November 2015
    October 2015
    July 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013

    RSS Feed

Medway Queen Preservation Society
Gillingham Pier
Pier Approach Road
Gillingham, Kent
ME7 1RX
Tel: 44 (0) 1634 575717

Links
Our Sponsors
Privacy Notice
Terms and Conditions

.
Picture
Picture
New Medway Steam Packet Company Ltd    Registered Company No. 2100358      Charity No. 296236   
  • Home
  • MQPS
    • About MQPS
    • Wish_List
    • Support Us
    • Volunteers
    • The Team
    • Talks and Presentations
    • Medway Queen - West
  • Visit and Contact
    • Medway Queen Events
  • History
  • Shopping
    • Online Shop
    • MQ Models
    • Railway Wagons - 00 Gauge
    • Railway Wagons - N Gauge
  • News