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St Mary's Island-Chatham Kent.

'St Mary's Island was originally a marshy area to the north of Chatham Dockyard.

It had many uses over the years: brickfields,prison,a place to bury the bodies of the prisoners of war held captive on the prison hulks in the River Medway, a place to change the reactor cores of the Royal Navy's submarines,a nuclear waste dump and now,after removing 1,300,000 tonnes of contaminated soil,a housing estate.

In the early years of the twentieth century there were plans to expand the dockyard to include St Mary's Island.

The bodies of the prisoners were exhumed, and re-interred in the grounds of St George's Church,now the St George's Centre.'

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