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KeithG

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #838 on: January 27, 2020, 10:54:47 AM »
castle261....sorry not cement those factories are further around the river.


CAT......Yes, they are next to the Stewart and Spencer Oil and Seed Mills which were taken over by British Oil and Cake Mills in 1899 until 1953.
My Stepmother worked for them in the War Years and this company had the only Gantry or Walkway over Canal Road to join the warehouses together, my Stepmother told me of the times she pushed a sack barrow over that Walkway with sacks of peanuts on the barrow.


However the larger Warehouse next door where the boat is alongside is the one which is needed?
They had shops in Strood and Rochester High Street selling corn and seeds from which the boats sailed from Egypt India and Russia.



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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #837 on: January 27, 2020, 09:25:23 AM »
I though of it after -------- Cement

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #836 on: January 27, 2020, 08:33:17 AM »
Are they next to the Stewart and Spencer Oil and Seed Mills, which included a vegetable oil soap plant?

KeithG

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #835 on: January 27, 2020, 08:30:34 AM »
Sorry not wood pulp castle261


What the two large warehouses behind deal with is the answer?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #834 on: January 27, 2020, 02:08:20 AM »
Wood pulp for Aylesford.

KeithG

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #833 on: January 26, 2020, 09:54:24 PM »
Shoot999..... Yes that part correct but what is it there for?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #832 on: January 26, 2020, 09:50:55 PM »
Along Canal Road between Rochester Bridge and Strood Basin?

KeithG

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #831 on: January 26, 2020, 09:33:14 PM »
Where in Strood and what cargo?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #830 on: January 26, 2020, 09:27:52 PM »
Masts up so I'm guessing Strood. Offloading/loading. But what?

KeithG

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #829 on: January 26, 2020, 09:16:36 PM »
It is on the Medway shoot999

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #828 on: January 26, 2020, 09:14:42 PM »
Is that on the Medway?


KeithG

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #827 on: January 26, 2020, 08:52:57 PM »
Invicta Alec..... Not a Thames Barge or Whitstable.


John Walker...... and not re-rigging at Gravesend.


Although not a very large vessel they did sail very long distances. (clue)

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #826 on: January 26, 2020, 08:11:12 PM »
Re-rigging?
Gravesend?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #825 on: January 26, 2020, 07:57:00 PM »
Looks like Whitstable harbour to me?


Is the vessel a Thames sailing barge? Used extensively because of their flat bottoms making them ideal for river freight.


Alec.


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #824 on: January 26, 2020, 07:33:20 PM »
Next Guess is:


What is happening here and where?