Guess the Place

[Local Hiker]

It is pump house number 5 at Chatham Dockyard, used to empty and top up the basins and dry docks.
As you say, it is now a distlllery, not just gin. It also houses a cafe, with some of the original equipment on show.
The distillery was using otherwise waste Shepherd Neame beer to make hand gel for the Metropolitan Police last year.

And the railway.... see photo

[Stewie]

The former pump house building now the Copper Rivet Gin distillery in Chatham (ex dockyard)?

[Local Hiker]

A long-gone railway ran past this building.

[Local Hiker]

I always check out French Ebay sites when playing Guess The Place. I am sure that we all do.
https://www.befr.ebay.be/itm/Badlesmere-Post-Office-E-H-Pearson-Shop-by-A-H-DeAth-Faversham/352196343449?hash=item520089b699:g:R6UAAOSwDEtZ5df~


Anyway, next from when I was out and about last year.

[DaveTheTrain]

very good Local Hiker!  I like your style. 


It is indeed Badlesmere.  That did not last long.  Over to you.
DTT

[Local Hiker]

There seems to be a little smudge on your photo. I have sorted it out in this copy for you. It might help people guess more easily.

[Local Hiker]

Thanks Stewie.
DaveTheTrain, well done and over to you.


For the record, the building is Sheerness Pier toll booth and Pier Master's house.
The ramp and steps around it are the access from the road up onto the pier. The black metal railings are the gate onto the pier.
The railway immediately to the west side is the tramway into Sheerness Docks.
Not only is the pier no longer there, neither is the water it straddled, because the sea has been reclaimed as land within Sheerness Docks.
There are more historic (and not historic) photos around the area from my day out here...  https://www.facebook.com/Spilt0Milk/posts/960495491145035

[DaveTheTrain]

Thanks Chaps,  that is very generous of you.


I recognised the location of the Bluetown photo as i occasionally visit to collect metal work from a supplier.


Anyway, where is this?  It is on a main road, opposite a pub.  It is no longer a PO.


DTT

[Stewie]

Not a problem, I think after this week I am happy to let some one else have a go! I only said Sheerness because of the 'industrial' background but could not say where it was with out further research!
Happy for Dave the Train to play 

[Local Hiker]

Oh, I have a dilemma.
Stewie appears to have had a speculative guess as to what town it is in, without any clarity as to what or where, but DaveThe Train has then been more specific as to exact location afterwards.

Stewie, I am inclined to give DaveTheTrain the call. Did you have any idea as to what or where?

[DaveTheTrain]

I think that is the very sad looking building at the end of West Street, Blue Town.


Whoops, sorry I see Stewie has beaten me to it.  Well done, mate.
DTT

[Stewie]

Sheerness?

[Local Hiker]

There is a disused railway immediately to the right of this building.

[Local Hiker]

Thank you Stewie. I can see Barton Point from my front garden, and I do go to see the trains regularly on Sunday afternoons through the summer, so it was instant recognition of your photo with no research needed on that one.


Next one, I took these photos last year. They are 2 views of the same building.

[Stewie]

Yes you have it Local Hiker over to you!