Guess the Place

[John Walker]

NatWest Bank, Gillingham High Street ?

[stuartwaters]

What and where is this?

[stuartwaters]

Thank you for that both of you. I have a pic to post but it's at home, so I'll post it in a while.


As for the Water Works, I drove past it quite frequently on my way to the Sewage Works at Dambridge Farm just outside Wingham. I've also spent a few nights working on the pumping station just behind the High Street in Wingham.

[CAT]

I think you have it stuartwaters as you got the location and I just needed the final clarification.


The inscription on the front of the building says 'Margate Water Works' as it was built by the Margate Corporation between 1903-5 to supply pumped water to the Fleet reservoir and then onto Thanet. It draws water from  three separate wells, each over 100ft deep into a tunnel system extending over two miles around the immediate area of the wells.


For those not in the know, its located beside the main road roughly midway between the villages of Wingham and Aylesham.


So over to you stuartwaters

[grandarog]

Give it to Stuart please Cat.He found it. I already knew where and what it was.

[stuartwaters]

Who are you giving this one to CAT? I got the location, but grandarog's answer was more accurate than mine. Don't mind either way....

[MartinR]

Grade II listed, see https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1363294?section=official-listing
I notice that the distinctive stack has been removed, presumably on electrification.

• Grid: TR 24307 55335
• Post: CT3 3JD
• WGS84: 51°15'11"N, 001°12'47"E

[grandarog]

It is "Margate" as it was built as a pumping station Waterworks to supply the towns needs from the water source springs at Wingham.. .
Donate the Brownie Point to Stuart. 

[CAT]

It is indeed commonly known as Wingham Waterworks building, but for the extra virtual point, what is the more distant town name inscribed on the front of the building?

[stuartwaters]

Wingham Water Works by any chance?

[grandarog]

Passed by this Guess many times when collecting Vegetables from a Farm.
Will hold back for a while ,give Newby's a chance.

[MartinR]

Interesting.  The granary is not listed although the farmhouse is: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1049087?section=official-listing  Both though do lie within the scheduled monument.  There's an entry for Coldred in Wikipedia that mentions the manor.

• Grid:  TR 27429 47556
• Post:  CT15 7LY
• WGS84:  51°10'55"N, 001°15'10"E

[CAT]

Many thanks stuartwaters


I remember sitting on the steps of the granary eating a sandwich after walking there from Canterbury one distant summers day. Then the owner use to leave the door open and the steps in place so you could inspect the interior, which then was all complete with its stowage bins either side of a central walkway.


Here is my next offering, which despite possessing a name of another Kentish town on its façade is a fair distance from it. It can be seen from the road on Google Streetview, but due to roadside trees not clearly from this direction.

[John Walker]

A fascinating story of your family tree Stuart.  Something to be very proud of.

[stuartwaters]

CAT has it, well done!


The maternal side of my family has a memorial stone in the cemetery there. Because that side of my family are Romany Gypsies who had settled in the area and because many years ago the church authorities would not allow them to be buried in consecrated ground, they were buried outside or cremated and paid for a stone to be put up with their names carved on it. My Grandmother, my mum and uncles' names are engraved on the stone, along with various cousins. My Grandmother married my Grandfather in the church there too in 1927.


Over to you CAT.