Postponed: The Medway Muddies, Adam Taylor

Unfortunately, this lecture is now postponed as the speaker is unable to attend. An alternative date in the spring lecture series will be arranged if possible and advised in due course.

For almost a century, gangs of men called Muddies sailed Thames barges to the remote salt marshes of the Medway estuary, to dig tons of mud to satisfy the relentless demands of the cement industry. They worked hard, drank hard, got into fights, and changed the tidal flow of a river, forever. An entertaining journey through an almost forgotten piece of unique history.

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