Guess the Place

[johnfilmer]

Faversham?

[Stewie]

Not Dover JohnWalker

[John Walker]

Dover Docks?

[Stewie]

Not Strood Martin R, the building was built by the London, Chatham & Dover Railway.

[MartinR]

Strood?

[Stewie]

Not Ashford grandarog

[grandarog]

The old Engine maintenance yard at Ashford?

[Stewie]

It has most definitely a railway connection Johnwalker, you can just make out the wooden platform I was standing on.

[John Walker]

Railway connection?

[Stewie]

OK, so when I took the picture the building was mostly derelict but parts of it (the office), were still in use. The shape of the doors gives an insight into what the buildings purpose was, which will help towards its location.

[Stewie]

Thanks for that information CAT, I have an interest in the fortifications around the Medway but also further afield. At the recent January members meeting at the Chatham Historical Society, I gave a short talk on Fort Luton which I will upload to this site later.
I have had a look through some old scanned photos I took in the early 1980's and have found this one for the next GTP.
So where was I when I took this with my Olympus Trip camera.

[MartinR]

Thanks folks.  Rather than Google I use DuckDuckGo which is more secure, but in this case yielded no hits.  I followed the link to Google Maps from the WP page and it now does mention the guns: "Dover Turret (80 ton guns) temporarily closed", and it is where GSV labels the Dover fishing pier.

[CAT]

The pier was extended towards the end of the nineteenth century and thus the former turret fort is now part way along the pier where the angle changes. See  51°06'42.4"N,001°19'08.22"E

[CAT]

As with lots of things https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiralty_Pier_Turret

[MartinR]

Well I knew that guns were placed on the breakwaters in both World Wars.  I can't seem to find the "Admiralty Pier Turret" in GSV.  There seems to be the remains of a gun emplacement at the pier end, next to the light and a larger structure at the Dover fishing Pier.  Is it one of them?  I'm afraid I don't really know Dover at all.  I've been to the castle a few times and to the museum, but otherwise I've always been en route to the ferry terminal or once the marina for a diving expedition.