Guess the Place

[shoot999]

Many Thanks KeithG, though I feel I may have snatched it from others who were very close also?

Here is my next which is a detail of some very important Kentish ironwork.

But where?

That's one of the reasons I enjoy GTP. Numerous contributors taking us closer and closer to the answer with their questions and suggestions. Team work! 


Not forgetting that the winners 'prize' is to have to sit out the next round, whilst the rest of us carry on playing. 

[Diapason]

St. Martin`s, Canterbury?

[KeithG]

Trying to do some finding but the South Door of Staplehurst Church keeps appearing?

[MartinR]

(OT) The Rochester door is the oldest Norman door in England, and one of the oldest in Europe.  Visible only by appointment.

[CAT]

I can see your thinking also John Walker, but incorrect. It is however, on an ecclesiastical building, but nothing as grand as a cathedral, or even a monastery/priory.

[John Walker]

Canterbury Cathedral - Door from the precincts?

[CAT]

It's not that one MartinR, but it could be of a similar age (though I don't know the age of the Rochester door, or ironwork)

[MartinR]

That looks suspiciously like the ancient door to the turret stairs in the north quire transept of Rochester Cathedral.

[CAT]

Many Thanks KeithG, though I feel I may have snatched it from others who were very close also?

Here is my next which is a detail of some very important Kentish ironwork.

But where?

[KeithG]

Yes you have it CAT...


They had a shop near Rochester Bridge and also By Eastgate Rochester.


Strood shop picture and the walkway across Canal Road during the flood of 1906.


Over to you.....

[CAT]

Would that be the Horsnaill and Reynolds corn merchants?

[KeithG]

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.

[castle261]

I though of it after -------- Cement

[CAT]

Are they next to the Stewart and Spencer Oil and Seed Mills, which included a vegetable oil soap plant?

[KeithG]

Sorry not wood pulp castle261


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