Guess the Place

[Local Hiker]

Cat, it is Thurnham Caste remains, a lovely area for a walk.
I am stopping playing for now. I am struggling to find time to keep on top of it.

[grandarog]

Faversham, Stone Chapel (Our Lady of Elverton) By the A2.

[CAT]

Thurnham Castle remain?

[Local Hiker]

Thank you Stewie. Sorry for the delay. Busy day.

Try this. I was walking a dog in October 2018 who was staying with me for a few days. For the record, the dog is Archie, the little Jack Russell, top right.

[CAT]

Good to hear, though a bit more funding would be well spent. I cant remember how much the Nation Ballet has had over the years, but I bet you could have gold plated the hull of the Medway Queen, or papered it with £10 notes? 

[shoot999]

Surely a good cause for lottery funding?

They have had £1.8  million in funding the past and have about 500 supporters who help future funding, inc Princes Michael, Timothy West and Prunella Scales.

[CAT]

Surely a good cause for lottery funding?

[Stewie]

Well done Local Hiker it is indeed the interior of the Medway Queen, over to you 

Try this one John Walker - [size=78%]Medway Queen Preservation Society - Home[/size]


I have not visited the ship for a while but there is a dedicated small band of guys trying to restore it. I believe that they recently advertised for extra volunteers. We hired her a few years back as  a setting for my Fathers 80th birthday celebrations. My mum told me stories of going to Southend on her and when i was walking through the inside I considered that I was walking in my Mum's footsteps. Actually though the hull is all a reconstruction although the engines are original I believe. She looks very smart when you view her at Gillingham Pier and it is a crying shame that this old lady cannot move under her own power once more. I guess it all come s down to cost.

[John Walker]

Well done Local Hiker it is indeed the interior of the Medway Queen, over to you 

The Medway Queen is looking good going by that photo.  Is there a website that keeps us updated with progress?

[Stewie]

Well done Local Hiker it is indeed the interior of the Medway Queen, over to you 

[Local Hiker]

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g503904-d6782474-i240810016-Medway_Queen-Gillingham_Kent_England.html

[Stewie]

Thanks Local Hiker


I pass the pump house regularly when we go for a walk around St Marys Island, some lovely brickwork in this building. Next one up!

[Local Hiker]

It is pump house number 5 at Chatham Dockyard, used to empty and top up the basins and dry docks.
As you say, it is now a distlllery, not just gin. It also houses a cafe, with some of the original equipment on show.
The distillery was using otherwise waste Shepherd Neame beer to make hand gel for the Metropolitan Police last year.

And the railway.... see photo

[Stewie]

The former pump house building now the Copper Rivet Gin distillery in Chatham (ex dockyard)?

[Local Hiker]

A long-gone railway ran past this building.