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KeithG

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1644 on: April 22, 2020, 09:02:40 AM »
No not a Hospital John...


This is part of the rear elevation on one end


In Medway  Area 8)

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« Reply #1643 on: April 21, 2020, 11:29:57 PM »
A hospital?

KeithG

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« Reply #1642 on: April 21, 2020, 08:38:20 PM »
No not a workhouse shoot999...


Part of a much larger building all renovated and still standing.

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« Reply #1641 on: April 21, 2020, 08:31:36 PM »
Thanks to Longpockets for the video.  :)

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« Reply #1640 on: April 21, 2020, 08:28:29 PM »
Workhouse?

KeithG

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« Reply #1639 on: April 21, 2020, 08:09:23 PM »
Thanks for that MartinR.....
Most of my playgrounds in early life were in quarries.


What is this part of and where?

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« Reply #1638 on: April 21, 2020, 07:16:16 PM »
The Chatham loco was Sydenham https://preservedbritishsteamlocomotives.com/aveling-porter-works-no-3567-sydenham-4wwt/ not sure how upto date this information is though.


A video of Sydenham in steam

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« Reply #1636 on: April 21, 2020, 03:16:15 PM »
Keith, that's the one.  APCM Stone Works according to the caption.  The odd thing about the loco is that it is an Aveling & Porter traction engine based design.  Look at the position of the compund cylinders on top of the boiler rather than either side directly coupled to the wheels.  Built 1900, photo 1932.  There's another one of similar, but not identical design in the Chatham Dockyard.
The railway was narrow gauge, and if you look closely at Google satellite view you can still see some of the trackbed.  From Stone Crossing railway station, run your eye right until you come to the large modern "shed" building.  Just prior to that you can see a trace of the track crossing Cotton Lane, passing under the railway and missing the end of Barley Close and St. Mary's Road.  It then curves right crossing the A206 before disappearing under the car park.  The pier directly opposite leading out to the ro-ro platform is on the site of the original railway pier.


Is this the other one you mentioned? My great Grandad King and great Uncle Harry ran this one in the same area. Iv'e been lead to believe that it is the one that was at Chatham Dockyard. Pic taken mid to late 1920s.

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« Reply #1635 on: April 21, 2020, 03:03:26 PM »
Keith, that's the one.  APCM Stone Works according to the caption.  The odd thing about the loco is that it is an Aveling & Porter traction engine based design.  Look at the position of the compund cylinders on top of the boiler rather than either side directly coupled to the wheels.  Built 1900, photo 1932.  There's another one of similar, but not identical design in the Chatham Dockyard.
The railway was narrow gauge, and if you look closely at Google satellite view you can still see some of the trackbed.  From Stone Crossing railway station, run your eye right until you come to the large modern "shed" building.  Just prior to that you can see a trace of the track crossing Cotton Lane, passing under the railway and missing the end of Barley Close and St. Mary's Road.  It then curves right crossing the A206 before disappearing under the car park.  The pier directly opposite leading out to the ro-ro platform is on the site of the original railway pier.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1634 on: April 21, 2020, 02:44:09 PM »
Shield Portland Cement Works? ......

Portland Cement Works at Stone?







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« Reply #1633 on: April 21, 2020, 02:41:38 PM »
Back a bit

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« Reply #1632 on: April 21, 2020, 02:34:53 PM »
Dartford?

There is a small Artillery Cement Works?

Albion......

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1631 on: April 21, 2020, 02:28:54 PM »
Other side of Greenhithe

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« Reply #1630 on: April 21, 2020, 02:24:59 PM »
Cement works, Pilgims Rd on Swansconbe/ Northfleet border