Guess the Place

[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.

[Local Hiker]

I always check out French Ebay sites when playing Guess The Place. I am sure that we all do.
https://www.befr.ebay.be/itm/Badlesmere-Post-Office-E-H-Pearson-Shop-by-A-H-DeAth-Faversham/352196343449?hash=item520089b699:g:R6UAAOSwDEtZ5df~


Anyway, next from when I was out and about last year.

[DaveTheTrain]

very good Local Hiker!  I like your style. 


It is indeed Badlesmere.  That did not last long.  Over to you.
DTT

[Local Hiker]

There seems to be a little smudge on your photo. I have sorted it out in this copy for you. It might help people guess more easily.

[Local Hiker]

Thanks Stewie.
DaveTheTrain, well done and over to you.


For the record, the building is Sheerness Pier toll booth and Pier Master's house.
The ramp and steps around it are the access from the road up onto the pier. The black metal railings are the gate onto the pier.
The railway immediately to the west side is the tramway into Sheerness Docks.
Not only is the pier no longer there, neither is the water it straddled, because the sea has been reclaimed as land within Sheerness Docks.
There are more historic (and not historic) photos around the area from my day out here...  https://www.facebook.com/Spilt0Milk/posts/960495491145035

[DaveTheTrain]

Thanks Chaps,  that is very generous of you.


I recognised the location of the Bluetown photo as i occasionally visit to collect metal work from a supplier.


Anyway, where is this?  It is on a main road, opposite a pub.  It is no longer a PO.


DTT