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Sun Pier, Chatham

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KeithG:
smiffy.......i have no idea what date the picture is exactly. I downloaded it quite a few years back as there are not many pictures about of the actual pier head itself.


Of course being on a river there were numerous piers in the Medway Towns stretch they mostly had pontoons some such as Strood the whole pier was a large pontoon which went up and down with the tide.

Smiffy:
Cheers CAT, I wasn't far off then :)

CAT:
The official pier monument listing states 'Commercial pier for merchant ships in the River Medway. Site of a pier existing in 1765 which was subsequently improved in 1864 and destroyed by gales in 1885. The present pier was constructed in 1886 with an extension added in 1902-4. Major refurbishment carried out in 1982 and a new landing stage added in 1987'

Smiffy:
KeithG,
 
Any idea of the date? It must be pre-1907 as the OS for that period already shows it in its final incarnation. Looking at previous maps it looks like it may have been extended some time around 1900.

KeithG:
Found a different picture in my collection of Sun Pier.

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