Guess the Place

[KeithG]

Actually drove past this morning from shopping and although on some sites they say this is the second water tower it is the third ?


It is the second cement tower but the original brick tower with it`s steel tank is still in place!

[pete.mason]

That's the one, Arty farty isn't it. All yours

[CAT]

Water tower at the top of Hospital Hill/West Road, Shorncliffe nr Folkestone? Presumably to water the adjoining Shorncliffe Barracks?

[pete.mason]

The leaning tower of ------------------ why would they need a water tower, on top of a hill ?


I spy a tower, filled with what
other than water, I think not
A wartime, from the first war
To secure airships ---- galore.

 
Why on a hill? slow water supply 24/7 to fill the tower and gravity feed to meet demands exceeding the flow in. Bit stylish for WW1 I'd guess more 1980s.  Not N Kent.

[John Walker]

Not sure if your posts Castle261 are meant to be clues or red herrings 


Kent Science Park, Sittingbourne area?

[castle261]

The leaning tower of ------------------ why would they need a water tower, on top of a hill ?


I spy a tower, filled with what
other than water, I think not
A wartime, from the first war
To secure airships ---- galore.

[pete.mason]

I think so, on top of a hill

[John Walker]

Harder that I was expecting    .  Just to confirm is/was it a water tower ?

[pete.mason]

thanks Keith

[KeithG]

OK castle261.....


Pete... If you see this put up a picture!


If not I will put up another tomorrow am.

[castle261]

Unable to put photo`s in ----  a SHOT IN THE DARK --- Carry on KiethG

[KeithG]

Yes it is the Strand miniature railway...... I used to run around it keeping up with the engine about 1955.


The name of the Miniature Railway Company was "Lilliputian"


Over to you castle261..... do your first picture edit?

[castle261]

Surely NOT the Strand in Gillingham ------------------------------------------- is it ?


There was a railway, many years ago
That`s where my mate & I used to go
Wednesday`s to meet -- a young girl
No no no, her name was not --- Pearl 

[KeithG]

Sorry Diapason none of those.....


Near tidal water...

[Diapason]

It`s not the Maidstone Zoo or the Torry Hill railway so the Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway is the only one that I can think of, although the houses in the background don`t seem to fit in with any of them - likewise the Hythe, Romney and Dymchurch line  -  so, S&K.L.R?