Peter Jordan Q & A

Peter Jordan

Peter Jordan is another Medway figure who has featured in many bands over the years. I caught up with him during a recording session. There's no need to furnish you with a pre-Q&A biography...because he does the job superbly in his first answer:

1) Please tell us a little about yourself and about how long you've been associated with the Medway Towns?

A) I grew up in Medway, born in Chatham in 1964, but spent most of my childhood in Rochester. An obsession with The Beatles from the age of 13 led to me taking up the bass. I'd had piano lessons at the age of 9 when my dad said that if I learn how to play the piano, he'd buy me a keyboard that made the weeeeeeeehah weeeeeeeehah sound on Crazy Horses by The Osmonds. He didn't, he lied, and I gave up. I was playing bass, in a band, with schoolfriends. I still have tapes. We were really sh*t, but I thought we were going to be pop stars, of course. It wasn't until I met Glenn Prangnell in 1983 and joined his band, The Offbeats, that I did anything worthwhile.  I used to see Glenn at Second Sounds record shop in Chatham. The guy who ran the shop, Gary Harries, said Glenn was looking for a bass player, so I said I'd give it a go. I went to his house, where he introduced me to Martin Adams, who was going to be the guitarist. As soon as I heard Glenn's songs I knew it would be a good thing to do. I said I knew a really good drummer and I called Ian Harris, there and then. We had a band. Glenn's songs were very Beatle-y, not a very hip thing to like in those days. We were together for about 4 years and released an album, In Rhythm Offbeat, in 1984. Sometimes we played to an empty room (East End, Chatham) and sometimes to a packed pub (Nag's Head, Rochester)  After that I was in Ignorance Is Bliss for a while, with Peter Cook (better known then as Piggy) which was a lot more experimental than anything I'd done before. I'd liked his previous band, The Blood Junkies, with Dennis Pearce, a band that seemed to divide opinion (as did Ignorance Is Bliss) 
Then I met Nick Hughes (ex-Cenet Rox) and was in various bands with him for a few years, best of which was probably Choc-a-Bloc. I always felt that Nick was the man most likely to make it, I think a lot of people did at the time, be he always seemed to f*ck it up somehow. Still, we had a lot of fun along the way.  After that I decided to front bands for the first time, which, after a few false starts, led to the Reg Varney Trio in 1993, with Sean Stevens and Marcus Moir.  They'd been my dream band for a while. I'd always admired their playing abilities, from their time working together in The Round. Sean had played in a couple of bands with me before, one with Piggy and one with Nick.  Marcus had retired from drumming, but we managed to convince him to pick up the sticks again. My girlfriend, at the time, even bought him a drum-kit. We played loadsa gigs in the area, even ventured further afield on occasion, and had quite a reputation as a powerful 3-piece, mainly due to Sean's phenomenal guitar sound. Sometimes we were due to support someone and the headline act would change the playing order, so they didn't have to go on after us. Both Marcus and I moved to London in 1996.  Sean moved to Portsmouth, so that was effectively the end of the band. We did re-unite for the occasional gig in Medway when asked, but eventually stopped for good in 1997. It's a shame, because I think, as a band, we were getting better and better. 

Peter aged 14...on the road to infamy

2) What's your favourite memory of Medway ?

A) It's difficult to pick just one. I always look back on working with Nick Hughes in Slam It as a great period. It wasn't the best thing, musically, but it was a lot of fun. That band never really played a normal gig, except Maidstone River Festival. We used to play at parties in a big house in Somerfield Road, Maidstone. 

3) What's your favourite Medway building ?

A) Boring answer, but I like the Rochester view of the castle and the cathedral. To me, it's the first thing I think of when showing people around the area

4) Where's your parish ?  Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham, elsewhere?

A) I was brought up in Rochester, but moved around a lot over the years, between there, Chatham, Gillingham and Rainham. By the time I left for London I felt very much aligned to Gillingham. 

5) Have you some favourite bands or solo acts from past or present ? (Medway acts)

A) I liked the early Dentists era and used to go to most of their Medway gigs. Swinging Time were my favourite band of all though. I think that Gary Robertson has an amazing voice and they were really loud and intense. Being away from the towns, I'm not that up on the present scene. I think that Ben Jones is a serious talent and I like what I've heard from Frau Pouch

6) Any great memories of wild nights out to share?

A)  How do you pick one...from many years of hedonism ?  The most outrageous ones, I keep to myself until I know people better. I guess one I could share is the first time The Offbeats had a night out together...as a band. I managed to get everyone banned from the pub. It ended with me flooding the toilets and throwing my pint over the head of the poor unfortunate landlord. 

7) What's your favourite pub? (clubs and bars do count)

I don't know the modern area, but I used to like the Nag's Head in Rochester. Earlier than that I liked the King's Head, also in Rochester. Many a mad time had there

8) If you were to show a visitor around Medway for a day...where would you take them?

A) see answer 3

9) Is there a landmark that you instantly think of for the towns ?

A) see answer 3

10) If you could live in any building in Medway...where would you choose ?

A) TOYS R US (editor's note...possibly the best answer I've ever had on that one)

Peter as an unidentified flying ramone

11) Any particular shops that you think are worth a mention ?

A) Only from the past. That would be Second Sounds, the second-hand record shop where I met Glenn. It shaped my taste(s) in music. I spent a ridiculous amount of time in there...listening to records...many times when I should have been at college

12) Which famous people...real or fictional....do you immediately associate with the Medway Towns?

A)  John Wilmot and Billy Childish

13) What's your very earliest memory of being  here in these towns?

A)  Crashing my tricycle into the bollards at the entrance to Troy Town swings. I do remember something earlier but no-one believes me, so we'll leave it at that

14) Any sad memories of Medway ?

A) The death of my mother on April 29th 1982. Less significant, but nevertheless something that affected a lot of people, the closure of the King's Head Real Ale Bar, Rochester, in 1983 (probably) My daily routine taken away. Many good memories from there. 

15)  What's your favourite local music venue...past or present ?

A) Probably the Nag's Head or The Crown...both in Rochester

16) Do you enjoy the current Medway music scene ?

A)  I don't really know it, having lived in London for 17 years. I do hear things that I like from time to time. Ben Jones is obviously a huge talent.  Bear vs Manero, I saw recently in London.  Sadly, I missed Frau Pouch's set, cos I like what I've heard from them thus far. Then there's a lot of the old 'uns who still make great music. It seems the scene is still thriving and evolving

17)  Do you think the towns will change drastically...on the entertainment front...over the next 20 years ?

A)  It doesn't look like that's going to happen, does it ?

18)  What would you change about Medway...if you had the chance ?

A)   I'd move it closer to London

That concludes the Q & A with Peter Jordan. It's been fun...thank you x

Peter..with The Offbeats

Peter Cook Q & A

Peter Cook leads Human Dynamics and The Academy of Rock,

a creativity and innovation management consultancy, blending

leading edge ideas from the world’s business schools with the

power of music, be it rock, jazz or classical.

 He has delivered

conference keynotes and longer masterclasses to some of the

world’s top businesses and organisations. 

Amongst other things

Peter has also been flaying his exotic instrument (oo er missus) on stages across Medway for...ooh...THIS long. 

Oh well....let's hear some reflections from the man himself

(photo Dean Campbell)

1) Please tell us a little about yourself and about how long you've been associated with the Medway Towns?
I’ve lived here all my life, save for a few years in Gravesend and a lot of travel around the world.
2) What's your favorite memory of Medway?
Leaving it.
3) What's your favourite Medway building?
Rochester Castle
4) Where's your parish? Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham? Elsewhere?
Gillingham
5) Have you some favourite bands or solo acts from past and/or present? (Medway Acts)
The Warm Jets (not strictly Medway) but they spent a lot of time here
Cenet Rox, both before I joined them and during
6) Any great memories of wild nights out to share?
I met an indian chap who was down on his luck at 1 am on Chatham station with my girlfriend. He was trying to get to Faversham, but had missed the train. I offered to let him stay at my house overnight. On arrival and to make him feel welcome I cooked some papadams and put some raga music on (he actually sounded like he was from Clapham, but I was pissed, so overdid the “ethnic charm”). My girlfriend went up to bed and we sat on the sofa for a bit chatting, until he asked if I wanted to “make a fuck”. I politely declined and gave him a sleeping bag. My gay friend Brain later said “Well Piggy, what did you think he was hanging round on Chatham station for?”
There were many other, better, wild nights, but I cannot share them!
7) What's your favorite pub? (clubs and bars do count)
The Tam O’Shanter holds special memories for me. Now demolished.

(with a reformed Cenet Rox...frontman Nick Hughes)

8 ) If you were to show a visitor around Medway for a day...where would you take them?
To the dockyard, where my Dad worked tirelessly for more than 50 years in an age where people did not become bored of their job or place. There’s a lesson in that for all of us.
9) Is there a landmark that you instantly think of for the towns?
The Castle.
10) If you could live in any building in Medway where would you choose?
The Kings School has some nice old houses around it. I wouldn’t mind one of them.
11) Any particular shops that you think are worth a mention?
Mid Air Music in Chatham
I loved Barnaby Recordings, the record shop in Gillingham – spent a lot of time there.
12) Which famous people...real or fictional...do you immediately associate with Medway?
Dickens
13) What's your very earliest memory of being here in these towns?
Playing a guitar on the doorstep of School Avenue. Later on singing so loud to ‘Twist and Shout” that I blew one of my ear drums out, going slightly deaf.
14) Any sad memories of Medway?
When my mum and dad died, rather too early for my liking. I was 21 when my dad died and 32 when my mum died. Lots of questions and conversations that I’d liked to have had.
15) What's your favourite local music venue...past or present?
The Woodlands Tavern has to be the best venue – really grungy and lovely. Plus the lovely Lyn who ran it.
16) Do you enjoy the current Medway Music Scene?
Yes, especially the work of Crybaby Special who have the opportunity of making it big in my opinion. Ben Jones also has a rare songwriting talent and deserves much better attention.

(dressing up with Unlucky Fried Kitten)

17) Do you think the towns will change drastically...on the entertainment front...over the next 20 years?
Yes, I think much live entertainment will be replaced by a generation of people watching things and participating online.
18) What would you change about Medway if you had the chance?
The politicians, who seem to only be driven by their own personal ambitions rather than any sense of doing things that might be good for the area.
19) If you were asked to design a snappy logo for the Medway Towns....perhaps for an ultra-modern coat of arms...what item or items would you have on it?
It would simply point out that it's a route to other places, with very little industry or culture holding it together.
20) Lastly...on the tail of the last question...what would be a great SLOGAN for The Medway Towns?
The last of the international playboys

(book launch)

Medway Mortal Musings - Twydall Tea

Tonight the Curator ushers a fresh face into the Medway Music Museum. The man known as Twydall Tea has burst out of the UFK Dollshouse and is here tonight to give his unexpurgated views on the Medway Towns. Watch out for Twydall in a pub near you in 2010...he's quite an act. Twydall provided support to Unlucky Fried Kitten at the recent Time For Change roadshow in Maidstone....but the shadowlands of Twydall(Medway) are his roots. Ladies and gents...here...in completely unedited flow...is Twydall Tea.

1) Please tell us a little about yourself and about how long you've been associated with the Medway Towns?
ello ello ello, my name's Peter, A.K.A Twydall, i'm a punk/performance poet based in medway and maidstone, most of my family live in twydall and i'm a medway lad through and through.

2) What's your favorite memory of Medway?
getting banned from camping international on the top road for playing cricket down the aisles and for hiding in the sleeping bags.

3) What's your favourite Medway building?
my nans house, bacon sandwich and a cup of tea at any time of the day

4) Where's your parish? Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham? Elsewhere?
Twydall!

5) Have you some favourite bands or solo acts from past and/or present? (Medway Acts)
Pete Molinari at the barge, classic

6) Any great memories of wild nights out to share?
how fucking long we got?

7) What's your favorite pub? (clubs and bars do count)
Flowerpot in maidstone

8) If you were to show a visitor around Medway for a day...where would you take them?
to the hospital

9) Is there a landmark that you instantly think of for the towns?
great lines, many a night have i ended up asleep on those fields.

10) If you could live in any building in Medway where would you choose?
i'd live in the theatre.

11) Any particular shops that you think are worth a mention?
Dark times in the inn shops, rizla, bongs, roach.... you get the idea.

12) Which famous people...real or fictional...do you immediately associate with Medway?
billy fucking childish and tracy fucking emin

13) What's your very earliest memory of being here in these towns?
probably a fireworks display on the great lines.

14) Any sad memories of Medway?
too many

15) What's your favourite local music venue...past or present?
maybe the beacon court or the billabong in rochester.

16) Do you enjoy the current Medway Music Scene?
most of it is all good. i'm not too sure about those unlucky fried kitten geezers though, they seem a little crazy.

17) Do you think the towns will change drastically...on the entertainment front...over the next 20 years?
Medway never changes.

18) What would you change about Medway if you had the chance?
i would make the pigeons wear hats.

19) If you were asked to design a snappy logo for the Medway Towns....perhaps for an ultra-modern coat of arms...what items or items would you have on it?
a flick knife and some burberry

20) Lastly...on the tail of the last question...what would be a great SLOGAN for The Medway Towns?

Medway - because there's nothing else to do.

Medway Mortal Musings - Alex Turner

Alex Turner is a much-respected lensman of the Medway Towns...a fellow with a fine eye for detail and for observation and capture of the ironic side of culture. His photographic work can be seen on Flickr under the moniker of MONAXLE.
Today he shares some of his wonderful thoughts with us:


1) Please tell us a little about yourself and about how long you've been associated with the Medway Towns?
My roots are in Faversham and Canterbury. 15 years in and around London. I've lived in Medway since 2001.

2) What's your favorite memory of Medway?
My three youngest being born at Medway Hospital. Amazing stuff.

3) What's your favourite Medway building?
I like that old warehouse in Gillingham, near the railway line, where they sell the mobility aids and such like.

4) Where's your parish? Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham? Elsewhere?
Chatham

5) Have you some favourite bands or solo acts from past and/or present? (Medway Acts)
Archie Wah Wahs, Lupen Crook, The Singing Loins. The Deccas.

6) Any great memories of wild nights out to share?
It got a bit loopy in The General at Sea a little while ago. Lucky to get out unscathed I was!

7) What's your favorite pub? (clubs and bars do count)
The Brittania

8) If you were to show a visitor around Medway for a day...where would you take them?
Out to Cliffe on a bike. Out on the river in a canoe.

9) Is there a landmark that you instantly think of for the towns?
Rochester railway bridge as seen and heard from the inside of a train carrige.

10) If you could live in any building in Medway where would you choose?
The Command House

11) Any particular shops that you think are worth a mention?
Nah.

12) Which famous people...real or fictional...do you immediately associate with Medway?
Zandra Rhodes

13) What's your very earliest memory of being here in these towns?
Driving past Rod Hulls old house in Rochester back in the seventies. Queueing up in traffic for Chatham Navy Day. Again back in the seventees.

14) Any sad memories of Medway?
No.

15) What's your favourite local music venue...past or present?
The Barge.

16) Do you enjoy the current Medway Music Scene?
Love it. I think Medway musicians and creatives are all brilliant.

17) Do you think the towns will change drastically...on the entertainment front...over the next 20 years?
Yes. For the good and the bad.

18) What would you change about Medway if you had the chance?
Remove the hills. At least the ones that go up.

19) If you were asked to design a snappy logo for the Medway Towns....perhaps for an ultra-modern coat of arms...what items or items would you have on it?
A guitar, a camera, some paintbrushes and a microphone.

20) Lastly...on the tail of the last question...what would be a great SLOGAN for The Medway Towns?
Medway Moves You

Medway Mortal Musings- Phil Dillon

Phil Dillon....photographer/occasional musician/ex-Matador/stylish geezer (one of those is not true) has grasped the biro-baton and crystallized his thoughts on Medway for us.
Phil has been a regular on the local scene playing in bands and organising various events...particularly with the Medway Eyes group. Here..we crack open his mind with a crowbar from B&Q:

1) Please tell us a little about yourself and about how long you've been associated with the Medway Towns? I was born in All Saints Hospital in Chatham and I've lived in Medway all my life.

2) What's your favorite memory of Medway? Man and Boy, a model shop in Chatham High Street. Going to the cinema in Chatham and calling into Pat's for sweets first. Pat looked a bit like Peter Sellers. Haircuts in Long John's. My Nan's shop - Jaydee Newsagents on the corner of Wyles Road and Dale Street.

3) What's your favourite Medway building? Chatham Town Hall, now known as the Brook Theatre. The day the Council threatens that one is the day I raise a people's army.

4) Where's your parish? Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham? Elsewhere? Chatham.

5) Have you some favourite bands or solo acts from past and/or present? (Medway Acts)? Too many. From the past, The Claim, The Dentists, Swinging Time, Men From Memphis. In the present, Didi Bergman, Lupen Crook, The Lovedays and anything Chris Austin does. And the Singing Loins.

6) Any great memories of wild nights out to share? I fell in a ditch at one of Judith Mullarkey's parties once. And there was the night in 1987ish when The Drunken Popes played at the Blue Lagoon and some twats came in and started a fight. The bouncers were crap, but our bass player Sean wasn't. He threw all of them out in seconds flat. The police were called after they smashed the window, and Sean had to go with them to identify the aforementioned twats. The Dentists were there, minus Mick, and played an impromptu covers set until Sean got back and the popes could play. Bob broke most of my strings, but it was a great set.

7) What's your favorite pub? (clubs and bars do count)? The Barge, The Nag's Head and The Britannia. I used to love the Command House too, when it was a pub.

8) If you were to show a visitor around Medway for a day...where would you take them? Casa Lina in Rochester, circa 1997, and then a few architecturally or historically interesting pubs.

9) Is there a landmark that you instantly think of for the towns? Well, you see the castle and cathedral as the train pulls round the bend towards Rochester, so it's them I suppose.

10) If you could live in any building in Medway where would you choose? A renovated Spemco building on Desolation Row.

11) Any particular shops that you think are worth a mention? Sound and Vision (Sounds Perfect) in Chatham is a proper old fashioned record shop, and I enjoy a rummage in Baggins Book Bazaar from time to time. I quite like the Tulip shop in Chatham for pickled things and flatbreads too.

12) Which famous people...real or fictional...do you immediately associate with Medway? Rod Hull.

13) What's your very earliest memory of being here in these towns? Being in my mum's pale green Austin 1100, being taken to play school. I used to sing Gary Glitter songs into a hairbrush there, and I once got into trouble for poking a cake. (Curator's Note: Haven't we all?)

14) Any sad memories of Medway? The day they took the snail thingy out of the Pentagon. The bulldozers destroying the Theatre Royal.

15) What's your favourite local music venue...past or present? The Barge and the Nag's Head. I thought the Underground was a cracking venue, but it didn't last for long.

16) Do you enjoy the current Medway Music Scene? I do, and I always have. Medway has always had more than its fair share of talent. It's the water.

17) Do you think the towns will change drastically...on the entertainment front...over the next 20 years? In terms of the areas I'm involved in, I hope not. Some of us have been doing our thing for over twenty years, and it's still as fulfilling now as it was when we started.

18) What would you change about Medway if you had the chance? It would be responsibly and democratically run by people who put the interests of the towns and their populace before their own, and PCSOs would receive adequate training.

19) If you were asked to design a snappy logo for the Medway Towns....perhaps for an ultra-modern coat of arms...what items or items would you have on it? A crack whore in Dickensian costume in a large brown envelope.

20) Lastly...on the tail of the last question...what would be a great SLOGAN for The Medway Towns? Local Towns For Local People.

Medway Mortal Musings...Reavsey

Here comes Reavsey....prolific Urban Punk Folkist...with his musings on the Medway Delta.
Tonight, Reavsey wears a cropped satin Care Bears T-Shirt with Cheesecloth trousers and winkle-pickers....he dreams of World Peace..and would love to work with animals.

1) Please tell us a little about yourself and about how long you've been associated with the Medway Towns?

I have been in the Medway towns since mid 1990’s

2) What's your favourite memory of Medway?

Not one in particular..always look forward to coming back over Rochester bridge when away.

3) What's your favourite Medway building?

Not really a building, Rochester High Street late at night/early hours when all is quiet. I still have the ability to see past the commercialisation which on occasions casts a shadow on the beauty of this area. There are still times when you can appreciate the atmosphere of the old place and sense the ghosts from times past.

4) Where's your parish? Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham? Elsewhere?

Rainham

5) Have you some favourite bands or solo acts from past and/or present? (Medway Acts)

There are many great bands past and present of course but The Singing Loins are my fave

6) Any great memories of wild nights out to share?

Probably a party the night I bit my cousins dog (It was only a playful nip) it’s a long story...that and the many nights watching bands of course.

7) What's your favourite pub? (clubs and bars do count)

The Barge

8) If you were to show a visitor around Medway for a day...where would you take them?

Rochester High Street and then some of the Music Venues in the area. Around the many nice river walks etc

9) Is there a landmark that you instantly think of for the towns?

Rochester Castle/The Naval War Memorial – Chatham/Rochester Bridge

10) If you could live in any building in Medway where would you choose?

Eastgate House - Rochester...or many of the old buildings in the historic area or Rochester or some of the old buildings in Chatham Historic Dockyard.....

11) Any particular shops that you think are worth a mention?

The Candy Bar Rochester High Street..if you like quality sweets etc (curator's note: I hope that's not a dig at my rotundity)

12) Which famous people...real or fictional...do you immediately associate with Medway?

Dickens and his creations

13) What's your very earliest memory of being here in these towns?

Coming from London originally the greenness, the laid back atmosphere and the lovely people ;o)

14) Any sad memories of Medway?

Spending so much time in Medway Maritime hospital due to illness and of course some of the old Medway that has been destroyed to make way for some town planner’s vision.

15) What's your favourite local music venue...past or present?

The Barge

16) Do you enjoy the current Medway Music Scene?

Yes a great deal

17) Do you think the towns will change drastically...on the entertainment front...over the next 20 years?

Yes there will be less individual places/venues/pubs with character which will be replaced by bland multi outlet establishments appealing to the lowest common denominator. I believe...The shopping Mallisation of Medway will then be complete probably full of mass market outlets like the wonderful and interesting "Dockside" we all flock to of course...

18) What would you change about Medway if you had the chance?

Stop adding new white elephants; concentrate on the gems that are here instead of destroying them.

19) If you were asked to design a snappy logo for the Medway Towns....perhaps for an ultra-modern coat of arms...what items or items would you have on it?

The Naval Memorial/The Castle - Rochester/and a Burberry Cap on top of a Silver Cross Buggy


20) Lastly...on the tail of the last question...what would be a great SLOGAN for The Medway Towns?

Medway, it’s the bollocks!

Hope you don’t mind this addition

21) What is your favourite place in Medway?

The marshes in and around Rainham where I walk my dog...especially in bad weather you can walk for ages without seeing another person, the harsher the weather the better...makes you feel alive...LOL


Cheers

Medway Mortal Musings...Simon Bunyan

Simon Bunyan, frontman for 80's bands 'Men From Memphis' and the deliciously named 'Robert Underwater' is our first Medway Mortal to Muse for the Medway Music Museum. Thanks to Simon for helping to keep some of the Medway memories alive:

1) Please tell us a little about yourself and tell us how long you've been associated with the Medway Towns? -
Simon Bunyan, 44, sagitarius, 31 years

2) What's your favorite memory of Medway? - Gillingham's play off win 2000

3) What's your favourite Medway building? - Marconi House

4) Where's your parish? Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham? Elsewhere? - Rochester

5) Have you some favourite bands or solo acts from past and/or present? (Medway Acts) - The Claim, Swinging Time, LP3, Vandebilts, Kris Dollimore

6) Any great memories of wild nights out to share? - ???

7) What's your favorite pub? (clubs and bars do count) - The Nags Head, Rochester

8) If you were to show a visitor around Medway for a day...where would you take them? - The Dockyard

9) Is there a landmark that you instantly think of for the towns? - Rochester Castle

10) If you could live in any building in Medway where would you choose? - Troy (art deco house bottom of City Way)

11) Any particular shops that you think are worth a mention? - 99p land

12) Which famous people...real or fictional...do you immediately associate with Medway? - Lortd Haw Haw, Oz Clarke

13) What's your very earliest memory of being here in these towns? - the Green Sheild Stamps shop on New Road

14) Any sad memories of Medway? - no

15) What's your favourite local music venue...past or present? , The Nags

16) Do you enjoy the current Medway Music Scene? - yes i do

17) Do you think the towns will change drastically...on the entertainment front...over the next 20 years? - No, the sixties will never end here !

18) What would you change about Medway if you had the chance? - the date

19) If you were asked to design a snappy logo for the Medway Towns....perhaps for an ultra-modern coat of arms...what items or items would you have on it? - The Victory,, a traffic light, a high speed train, and Primark

20) Lastly...on the tail of the last question...what would be a great SLOGAN for The Medway Towns? - "wake up"