Guess the Place

[grandarog]

Maybe a pitched Roof.

[MartinR]

a very detailed photograph.

FYI: Canon EOS 4000D camera with a Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 III lens zoomed out to 18mm (APS-C, equivalent to 28.3mm).  ISO 100, 1/320s, f/8.0  The resulting JPG was passed through GIMP to crop the image (around 50%) and reduce the quality to 50% to keep the file size down.

[johnfilmer]

Old pumping station?

It is certainly a substantial structure, and I also went for water tank at first glance.

[Beachbum]

Not a Water Tank Stewie

[Stewie]

is it a water tank?

[Beachbum]

Thanks MartinR, a very detailed photograph. shoot999 has answered my next question, thanks.


The next one has a unusual feature removed, what is missing from the original structure?

[shoot999]

Known as 10 Ton Slip. Small vessels/barges/harbour launches would come in on a rising  tide and rest in a cradle (now removed) to be winched up for a clean and other small jobs. Took me straight back to the 60s where the younger lads from the tug crews would meet up to play football, fish or just chill out.

[MartinR]

I'd a feeling that that one would either go immediately, or make people think.  Well done Beachbum, it is indeed on St. Mary's and represents council extreme short-sightedness.  Why ban people from using the slip?  There are very few places to launch small boats on the Medway,¹ it always seems as though Medway council want to ignore the River Medway!

• Nat Grid:                   TQ773705 / TQ7736570598
• Nearest Post Code:   ME4 3JL
• Co-ords (WGS84):     51°24'24"N,000°32'55"E or 51.40667,0.54874

¹There's only Commodore's Hard in Gillingham on the tidal Medway itself, all others are either private or restricted/charged (Short's Reach, Gillingham Pier).  Other than Gillingham the nearest public slips are Quennborough (on the Swale) or Barton's Point (on the Thames Estuary).  Very poor.

[Beachbum]

Saint Mary's Island, Chatham?

[John Walker]

Looks like a winch for bringing a boat ashore ?

[MartinR]

Right, here's the next one.  No marks for spotting or identifying the water.  What I need to know is where the foreground structure is.

[Stewie]

Bravo Martin R, my next clues were going to be it has a military connection and also a KHF one as the day I was there (in 2010) we were on an organised walk around Brompton. I believe that it was this shelter which had some of the lead removed from the roof a few years ago?
Over to you 

[MartinR]

You were standing at the western end of the northern shelter at the Chatham Naval Memorial, Great Lines, Gillingham.  It is a grade I listed building in the care of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

• Nat Grid:                   TQ762680 / TQ7628168025
• Nearest Post Code:   ME4 4NA
• Co-ords (WGS84):    51°23'02"N, 000°31'55"E or 51.383896,0.531891

Official listing and map: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1267787?section=official-list-entry
War Memorials Online: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/93080/

[Stewie]

johnfilmer, not a folly but it is part of a grand edifice though not strictly in a garden or park.
Johnwalker, this does not face a rectangular pond.

[John Walker]

Does this face a long rectangular pond ?