Chatham Dockyard: Reinvention of site 40 years after closure
The repercussions of the closure of one of the UK's last royal shipyards 40 years ago are still being felt.
On 31 March 1984 more than 7,000 skilled workers at Chatham Dockyard lost their jobs as well as another 10,000 people in supporting industries.
With them went the Kent town's long history of building, repairing and supplying ships for the Royal Navy.
Historian Richard Holdsworth said: "It was a naval town. And the navy left. Chatham was in shock for a very long time."
