Love these little clips and that presenter is hilarious.

My mums in this , she's the best!

Here we are once again !

Spent almost a year in GravesEnd 1978. Loved it !

We've got a Gravesend in Brooklyn in New York City. Big Italian neighborhood

It was Gravesham from the Domesday book.

The town of Gravesend is listed in the Domesday Book (1076) as Gravesham. This pre-dates the plague by 600 years so it has nothing to do with graves. The name 'Gravesham' has two possible origins. The first one being 'Hamlet at the end of the Grove' and the other being the area under the authority of a 'Reeve'. As far as I am aware neither can be proved conclusively. The town is called 'Gravesend' and the area is known as 'Gravesham'', hence 'Gravesham Borough Council'.

Graaf (Grave) is Dutch for count and Eend is Dutch for duck. So it's the Count's Duck (pond).

That person behind him on the right in the first clip, my god 👹🧛🏻‍♀️

I am from Essex across the estuary and have been to Gravesend hundreds of times, my understanding is that when people died during the plaque of london, they kept burrying the dead on the southern shore and they burrials got further and further away from london until the last one was buried at gravesend which is how it got its name.

The TV presenter was Montague "Monty" Modlyn, We were taught that during the Great Plague of London that the dead were brought down river from London to the opposite shore, that was named Tilbury, the story went that the dead were offloaded at Tilbury and thats how Tilbury aquired its name, the deceased were then brought over to Gravesend to be buried hence its name. Seems likely

Those days people had some good and valid 🧠 brains and knowledgeable

I was born the year this was filmed.

It’s where my family is from, still our last name! They came to America aboard the George Bonaventure during the great migration

People were better spoken back then. Innit?

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Some very interesting theories, but I do admire the last young fella's story, about it being the last place they buried you, *before* you went to sea. Well, otherwise they might have called the place "Gravestay". No bones about it, that's a clever boy.

Just get the beers in never mind 🍺

The boy at the start got it right. Good lad.

I understood it was where the Romans used to haul their ships out of the water hence Gravesend

I was told this was the last place of the people who died from the plague in London hence this is where the graves ended.......

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One thing for sure it’s a place with no soft toilet paper

The first lad got it right......

So how did Gravesend get its name????

In an age of instant information this conjecture wouldn't be countenanced by today's kids. A shame, in some respects.

The children then seemed far more intelligent than those of today.

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Didn't know Pocahontas died here