Guess the Place

[Lyn L]

One other thing about the demolition.
The low wall continued up the road further and when it was time to get rid of that for the new road entrance , a JCB  happened to dig through the main electric cables Flash Bang Wallop ! we were without electricity for 8 hrs that day. Fortunately the tropical fish in a big tank we had then survived.

[Lyn L]

Soon as I saw it !
 But I live over the road from it  .
At one point before all the buildings were demolished, that particular one was used by Out of Hours Dr's. I was really poorly one evening   but as it was so close my late hubby got my son to run over there and Dr came straightaway !
I had Pleurisy,  thank goodness they were there.


It was also where my Mum had radiation treatment.

[John Walker]

Thanks, Shoot999


I found this info during my search.
St. William’s Hospital
It was during the 1876/77 outbreak of smallpox that the Rochester Corporation decided that they needed to erect a Contagious Disease Hospital. It was probably this decision that led to the building of St. William’s Hospital on what was then known as Delce Road.

Wisdom Hospice now on the site, ME1 2NU

It opened in April 1883, taking its name from a chapel that was once on the site.  Many infectious diseases – mostly not regarded as a serious risk today (but they are) used to ravage Medway. St. Williams soon become an essential facility in caring for people from Rochester and Chatham who caught, amongst other infectious diseases, the potentially fatal diphtheria, scarlet fever, or measles. There were too many outbreaks of these diseases to detail at length, but they all took many lives; further they did not necessarily ‘arrive’ one at a time – and the hospital could find itself overcrowded.1882 – Diphtheria outbreak in Strood. In one family there were five children aged between three weeks to nine years all of whom went down with the disease. Four died and were interred in the same grave, the remaining child was admitted to the Isolation hospital in a critical condition.

From Geoff Rambler's Weird and Wonderful Kent

[shoot999]

Well done John. Spent a few weeks in there in the late 50s. It was a pretty grim place even then. Wisdom was built just before the hospital was demolished around 2000. Over to you.

[MartinR]

Well done John.  The gate was located at:

• Nat Grid:   TQ 74721 66606
• Post code: ME1 2PE
• WGS84:    51°22'18"N, 000°30'32"E or 51.37163,0.50880

[John Walker]

Found it. St Williams Hospital, St Williams Road, Rochester. Replaced by The Wisdom Hospice?

[shoot999]

Opened early 1880s to cater for contagious diseases and expanded to accommodate  general patients convalescing.

[shoot999]

Medway Towns it is. 

[John Walker]

It's the slope that made me think of Darenth.  So next guess Medway towns? - plenty of slopes there.

[shoot999]

Darenth area?

Within approx 20 miles of the Darenth area. So the right part of Kent.

[John Walker]

Darenth area?

[shoot999]

Hospital?

Yes. Now demolished. Site now a mixture of houses and  a  smaller similar facility.

[MartinR]

Hospital?

[shoot999]

Thanks for that John. Yes, the clues led me to it.


An easier one I think, so no clues yet.

[John Walker]

That was a good one John Walker ,I searched all sorts at Margate
and never got nearer than Turner and Mrs Booth's house .

Thanks Grandarog.  It seems that Margate has more history than I realised.