Guess the Place

[John Walker]

Anything to do with animals - tannery etc.

[johnfilmer]

Remote Control for the mobility scooter?   😀😀

[Stewie]

Looks like a flint knife or blade.

[MartinR]

In a sense, yes.

[John Walker]

No idea where this carving is so far.

Is it a tool in the fist?

[MartinR]

Right, where's this fist and what is it holding?

[johnfilmer]

I have spent many an hour lurking by this, waiting for the then manual crossing gates to open.

At one time a friend and his wife lived on an old Broads Cruiser moored just along from this, always interesting, building.

[Beachbum]

You have it MartinR. So the Chimney was an Obelisk. The Maidstone Waterworks was built in 1860 and the Chimney removed around 1900

[MartinR]

Former pumping station at East Farleigh.  Location:

• Nat Grid:                  TQ7345453552
• Nearest Post Code:  ME16 9NB
• Co-ords (WGS84):   51°15'17"N,000°29'03"E or 51.254751,0.484270

Here's an illustration of it with its missing "unusual feature", in reality a stack: https://s3.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/lbimg/101/263/788/101263788-135544-800.jpg

It's grade II listed, official listing here: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1263788?section=official-list-entry and a more detailed description here: https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/photos/item/IOE01/04236/26

A further Historic England entry adds the following:

The waterworks was built in 1860 in an Egyptian style. It provided water to Maidstone which, in 1897, suffered one of the worst outbreaks of typhoid in the country. Polluted spring water entered the waterworks which failed to filter out the bacteria and the supply was not turned off soon enough. It was later used as a coachworks and joinery.

[johnfilmer]

You need to power a pumping station, so a chimney?

[MartinR]

River: Medway?
Influence: Egyptian?

[Beachbum]

The Buttresses appear to be part of the design influence (overseas) and in keeping with the missing feature

[Beachbum]

Beside a well known River..........

[Beachbum]

It is indeed an Old Pumping Station johnfilmer. Not in the Thanet Area, and not a pitched roof.

[John Walker]

Somewhere in Thanet?