The Grove History Project

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Jeremy Clarke takes the group to Rochester castle

Rochester castle and the Guildhall Museum

The second of the Grove history project's trips took place beginning with Rochester castle

Rochester is in Medway in Kent. It is close to where the Grove History project is based, in Gravesend.
As well as the castle there is a cathedral and the Guildhall museum.
Jeremy Clarke who is the education officer at the Guildhall museum took the group around the castle and the museum.
He then provided the group with artifacts that they could handle and discussed with them how they had been used in the past.

And so one day a retired police constable decided to take up the challenge. But, he decided to stay in the wrong part of the caves. He decided to stay at the shallow lake. You see it was the site of one of the cave's most gruesome murders in the caves history. A jealous husband battered his wife around the head with a rock and then drowned her in the shallow lake.

But, the police constable did not know this. So, he was down there for a few hours and then suddenly he must have seen something, because, he lept from his position and ran about a hundred yards before running head first into the cave wall and knocking himself out.

When the caretaker found him in the morning he was still out like a light. But, when he came around he went white as a sheet and wouldn't stop babbling on about what he saw. But, he never stayed down there again