Guess the Place

[CAT]

I think you have it JohnWalker. It looks as though only the 3rd Ed. map of the OS (c.1907) shows the tramway running alongside Watling Street at this point. By 1929 (4th Ed. Map) the tramway has gone and largely replaced by a strip of land with Birling Avenue along side to the north. Intersting to note that switching of the tramway from one side of Watling Street to the other to avoid existing buildings, namely Rainham Mark to the west and along the middle of the High Street to the east. 

[John Walker]

I think it's on the A2 as it enters Rainham. Junction with Berengrave Lane.  None of my maps show a tramway there though.

[John Walker]

Now to find the actual location ...

[johnfilmer]

Indeed, the Chatham and District Light Railway, later to become Chatham And District Traction Company, who ran the brown buses over roughly the old tram routes until 1955.

[John Walker]

Section of the Chatham & District Tram system ?

[johnfilmer]

More mainstream than that JW.


Clue, look at the road name far right.

[John Walker]

A tramway related to one of the Faversham gunpowder works?

[johnfilmer]

Sandwich is waaaay too far

[MartinR]

As far as Sandwich?

[johnfilmer]

Further east.

[John Walker]

I've not found it but should we be looking in the Gravesend area?  I have a feeling there's a tramway somewhere near there.

[johnfilmer]

Well that was a shot in the dark, it being the only heavily timbered sizeable building that I could think of.
We went there once, at a time of business stresses my wife thought a nice day out would be great. It was shut!
Back to a map this time, its a OS 25inch, 1909 from nls maps. Interesting tramway, but where?

[CAT]

It is indeed the heavily timber 'East' side of Ightham Mote, which despite this pic being nearly 120 years old has remained virtually unaltered, even following its multi million pound restoration and refurbishment. To the untrained eye this elevation may just look as being medieval, but it encapsulate several hundred years of construction and repair.


Over to you johnfilmer

[MartinR]

As far as I can judge, the camera position must have been at:

• Nat Grid:       TQ 58511 53515
• Post Code:   TN15 0NT
• WGS84:        51°15'32"N 000°16'13"E or 51.2587652,0.270305

[johnfilmer]

Heavily timbered exterior, Ightam Mote?