Sheerness Dockyard — Attraction in Borough of Swale

Peel Ports are not an enterprise which invests in the vicinity, instead taking as much money as they can away with them to Manchester. This has resulted in a Blue Town which in sixty years has never stopped getting more & more run down, to the point where it is exploring new realms of decay. Information boards on the dockyard wall speak of restored tram stop name boards affixed to the wall, originally to let workers know what was on the other side of the wall so they knew which stop to get off at for the specific factory they worked in. I did indeed notice some wooden boards, but any text had long since faded. The plaques also spoke of the remains of a gas outlet installed to enable workers to smoke, as ignition sources were banned inside the dockyard. Despite much searching, I could find no trace of it; perhaps it has been stolen for scrap. At one point, I found a gap in the wall to look through; what I saw on the other side, while more modern, was no less disheartening. It was acres & acres of concrete with the odd boarded-up former administrative building. The plaques finally said that for more information, I could pick up a leaflet at a local heritage information centre, but I found no such place. Only 2 buildings in Blue Town were open to the public at the time of my summer Saturday visit, one being a pub & the other a mason's yard. It seems like even 10 years ago, Blue Town was a place where the odd curious tourist might come for a wander, but today it is not even that. It is lucky not to have been pulled down & concreted over to provide more room for imported cars in the...

Very interesting but public not allowed upstairs. A lot of wasted space downstairs. Cafe very good. Overall it was a bit disappointing and in our opinion the £9.5m restoration grant would have been better spent on renovating some of the Island, to helpit to be a more attractive place especially for tourists . This would then have enabled the island to generate a large income to further better it. Sheerness high street could also have been renovated in order to make it an attractive seaside town which which would also have generated a good income....

The Dockyard Church is a great venue. Certainly not to be confused as dingy as described. It's an award winning restoration, open to the public with a great little coffee shop. The co working facilities are available to hire, even on a daily basis if necessary. I am not sure where some of these reviews originate, but I do wish that were...