Guess the Place

[KeithG]

Thanks for that John.


I lived in Birchington for a few years and worked in a Ramsgate Shopfitting Company. No idea why a Gasometer there?


This is another newspaper scan....but where?

[John Walker]

You have it KeithG.  I believe it is or was at Bromstone Farm.  CAT - you are correct with gasometer base.  The main tank appears to have already gone by 1940.

I'm not sure why a gasometer would have been sited in that semi-rural location although it is on the perimeter of the long gone Ramsgate Airport.



It has more recently been used a reservoir for the farm. 


As this is Guess the Place, the location takes priority so over to you KeithG 

[KeithG]

It is to the East of Pysons Road near where i used to live in the early 1980`s ?


Bit more overgrown now.

[CAT]

I have a vague recollection that I've worked near this, but can't remember where or what it was for. I keep getting drawn to the Manston, Thanet area and it's the base of a gasometer? I'll have to search better for a more precise location and function.

[John Walker]

Not military CAT .   It's location seems a bit rural for what it was originally built for.  There might have been an aviation connection though.

[CAT]

Military?

[John Walker]

Thank you MartinR  Another one that took some finding


Next one ...


Where and what?

[MartinR]

Not quite.  On the Strand, Gillingham which is why Hoo Island appears as such a bank.

[John Walker]

Well done.  Any idea where I was taking photos?

From a high point on St Mary's Island with a telephoto ?

[MartinR]

Well done.  Any idea where I was taking photos?

[John Walker]

St Werburgh Church, Hoo ?

[MartinR]

Sometimes!  Well twice a day to be precise.

[John Walker]

Is there a river between the bank and the church ?

[MartinR]

Try this one then.  Taken this afternoon, and apologies for the hair but it won't stop you looking for the church.

[KeithG]

Wow.... Nice find shoot999
I used those toilets loads of times walking home up to Frindsbury from Star Hill bus stops because of traffic jams along the High Street in the early 1960's..... moved to Frindsbury in 1956 from Gillingham.
Apart from North Street they were the only ones but that was out the way as Canal Road was the shortest route for me.