Guess the Place

[MartinR]

Are we looking at somewhere in Paddock Wood or Pembury?

[John Walker]

Notable oast houses to the north.

[John Walker]

No takers on this GTP sp another clue.


Just west(ish) of mid-Kent

[John Walker]

It appears that not much happened in this village but here's a few clues from Wiki.


An English cricketer was born here.
The wife of royalty grew up here.
An activist is reputed to have been born here.

[MartinR]

300th offering?  It's only "whereisthis-298.jpg". 

[John Walker]

Another good one Shoot999.


Celebrating my 300th GTP offering on this forum, where is this?  Shouldn't take long

[Lyn L]

I was shoot  ! 

[shoot999]

Soon as I saw it !
 But I live over the road from it  .
At one point before all the buildings were demolished, that particular one was used by Out of Hours Dr's. I was really poorly one evening   but as it was so close my late hubby got my son to run over there and Dr came straightaway !
I had Pleurisy,  thank goodness they were there.


It was also where my Mum had radiation treatment.

I had a smile on my face when selecting the pic  thinking of you pointing out your  window saying 'It's there!'   

[Lyn L]

One other thing about the demolition.
The low wall continued up the road further and when it was time to get rid of that for the new road entrance , a JCB  happened to dig through the main electric cables Flash Bang Wallop ! we were without electricity for 8 hrs that day. Fortunately the tropical fish in a big tank we had then survived.

[Lyn L]

Soon as I saw it !
 But I live over the road from it  .
At one point before all the buildings were demolished, that particular one was used by Out of Hours Dr's. I was really poorly one evening   but as it was so close my late hubby got my son to run over there and Dr came straightaway !
I had Pleurisy,  thank goodness they were there.


It was also where my Mum had radiation treatment.

[John Walker]

Thanks, Shoot999


I found this info during my search.
St. William’s Hospital
It was during the 1876/77 outbreak of smallpox that the Rochester Corporation decided that they needed to erect a Contagious Disease Hospital. It was probably this decision that led to the building of St. William’s Hospital on what was then known as Delce Road.

Wisdom Hospice now on the site, ME1 2NU

It opened in April 1883, taking its name from a chapel that was once on the site.  Many infectious diseases – mostly not regarded as a serious risk today (but they are) used to ravage Medway. St. Williams soon become an essential facility in caring for people from Rochester and Chatham who caught, amongst other infectious diseases, the potentially fatal diphtheria, scarlet fever, or measles. There were too many outbreaks of these diseases to detail at length, but they all took many lives; further they did not necessarily ‘arrive’ one at a time – and the hospital could find itself overcrowded.1882 – Diphtheria outbreak in Strood. In one family there were five children aged between three weeks to nine years all of whom went down with the disease. Four died and were interred in the same grave, the remaining child was admitted to the Isolation hospital in a critical condition.

From Geoff Rambler's Weird and Wonderful Kent

[shoot999]

Well done John. Spent a few weeks in there in the late 50s. It was a pretty grim place even then. Wisdom was built just before the hospital was demolished around 2000. Over to you.

[MartinR]

Well done John.  The gate was located at:

• Nat Grid:   TQ 74721 66606
• Post code: ME1 2PE
• WGS84:    51°22'18"N, 000°30'32"E or 51.37163,0.50880

[John Walker]

Found it. St Williams Hospital, St Williams Road, Rochester. Replaced by The Wisdom Hospice?

[shoot999]

Opened early 1880s to cater for contagious diseases and expanded to accommodate  general patients convalescing.