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Dockside Outlet Centre at Chatham Maritime in the heart of the Thames Gateway features more than 80 shops and restaurants. High Street names including Pilot, Thornton’s, Cadbury’s, Antler, Mexx and Clarks are just some of the stores that can be found here. The Centre is located in the former Boiler Shop, where boilers were originally made ready to be installed in the ships being built at Chatham Dockyard. Many of the building’s original features have been retained, including the iconic clock tower.
Chatham Maritime – Dockside Outlet Centre
The £63 million Dockside Outlet Centre is a Grade ll Listed Building and was originally constructed at Woolwich Dockyard in about 1847, but was dismantled and re-erected in Chatham Dockyard in around 1876. The building is historically important, as an early example of the use of cast and wrought iron, most of which can still be viewed.
The Outlet Centre itself is built around a magnificent Grade II star listed building of cast and wrought iron built by the Royal Navy in Woolwich Dockyard in 1847 and later re-erected in Chatham between 1865-69. The original designers went on to build the Crystal Palace.
When visiting the Outlet Centre, experience fantastic shopping by the water’s edge seven days a week, with discounted stores selling famous leading brands. Whilst you’re there enjoy a quick coffee or a full meal from a great range of restaurants and cafés in an iconic Grade II listed Victorian building.
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