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All Friends Together

Pilgrims from the Friends of the River Medway passing through a wheat field

Friends can achieve great things together, so we're delighted to join forces with the Friends of the River Medway once again, during their visit to Rochester as part of their annual pilgrimage from the source to the sea.

The Great Get Together 2026

On Saturday 20th June, communities around the UK will be celebrating everything that connects our communities as part of The Great Get Together weekend, and naturally that includes our shared green spaces too!

Featured Articles

A Hero Remembered: Percy Gordon and Rochester’s Tribute of 1912

A bronze plaque adorned with angels and reading "TO THE GLORY OF GOD - THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY LOCAL PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION TO RECORD THE HEROISM OF PERCY HENRY GORDON OF BERMONDSEY, LONDON, WHO WHILE VISITING THIS CITY ON GOOD FRIDAY APRIL 5th 1912 LOST HIS LIFE IN BRAVELY RESCUING A LITTLE GIRL FROM DROWNING - GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS"

On Good Friday of 1912, an act of heroism took place on the waterfront which would touch the hearts of thousands of people. In our first ever Features article, our reporter Natalia takes a look at the event which would come to be known as the Good Friday Tragedy.