Sheerness Heritage Centre Trust thanks all those named below and any we have missed for permission to use their photos and memorabilia and information willingly given and obtained for us and in some cases hard work        

          Gaynor Akehurst for all her hard work looking after the Heritage Centre and keeping it spic and span, Ron Angel SS Richard Montgomery, Dr T Benton, Sue Bidgood, Margaret Bowker (Griffiths pictures),Tony Boyce , a distant relative in Australia, Ivor Buckingham, Jo Buckley Leics County,John Butler, Phillip Bye East Sussex CC, Carillion, Michael Carter Kent County Archivist, John Chambers, Cheshire County Archives, Graham Church, John Clancy, Nick Darkens, Royal Dockyard Chatham, Paul Dummott, T P Edwards,Stuart Fell, Mervyn Gould,  C.D. Graham, Roberta Grieve, Colin Harvey, Gavin Holman (ibew.co.uk) James Hooper,  The late Howard Greenlees,David Higgins Cranston Fine Arts, the late Mrs Hobday,  David T Hughes,  Jean Insley, IOS Sailing Club, John Janman, Mike Jackson,Marcel Kroon Maritime Museum Rotterdam, Shaun Mccann, Medway Pilots, Maria Clarke Medway Ports Authority, Mercia Film Society, Norman Long, National Philatelic Soc., Paddle Steamer Preservation Society, Betty Oldmeadow,Mrs. P. Pegg Peter F. Penney, Colin Penney, Jeremy Pfeffer,Israel, Lois Pratt and staff of Sheerness library,Prof. C. Riordan Newcastle on Tyne University, Chris Roberts, George Rotherham, Sheerness RC Church ,  Sheerness Times Guardian, Sheppey Gazette,  Sheppey Little Theatre,Southampton University, Barry Stewart, Alec Stevens, the late Alec Stride, Harry Summerton, All the staff at Swale Borough Council, (especially Jan West, Christine Heathfield,Lyn Newton, Frances Woolley et al), Graham Thurston (executor of his father's estate) Charles Tubb, United Masonic Club, Underground Kent Roger Vaughan, Vintage MC Club,Dr. Adrian Waller, L G Welland,  John Wilson Grimsby Archives,Roy Woolley, Bob Walker Nelson Society, John Watson, Alan Wilkinson,  Prof. R W Williams Swansea University, and many others