It is Beachbum, and although about a mile from my home, I have never been there either. My wife and her friends go quite a lot, probably for the coffee and cake 😁

Over to you…

We only refrain in hopes of attracting new blood to GTP.

Another pass for me too - walked that path a few months ago.

Sorry to have been AWOL today, a bit going on including putting away two tonne bags of logs that arrived, stacking them is like dry stone walling and very satisfying, but a little hard on the back!

If you follow the road from Lower Halstow to the A2, Breach Lane, I lived by the A2 junction from 1958 to 72. Eastwoods were still producing bricks and a bike ride down there was a regular entertainment, with a visit to the Post Office for supplies (sweets) a must-do part of the adventure.

Meantime, here is the next one. Not on Street View, but the photo is lifted from the website of the attraction itself.

Apologies for the delay, life has been very hectic for the last few months. Johnfilmer has it. Lower Halstow it is.

Edith May was restored on the Gridiron located in the dock there and as far as I'm aware, is still based there off-season.

There was a plan to restore another historic vessel there, the Westmoreland, the last of the Brick barges which plied their trade between the various brickworks in Lower Halstow, Otterham Creek and Funton Creek. They used to take a cargo of approximately 80,000 bricks to London and return with rubbish. Children were paid to sift through the rubbish looking for partly-burned coal or coke to fire the brick kilns. At Lower Halstow, a lot of that Victorian and Edwardian rubbish is still there, on the so-called 'Glass bottle beach', made up of millions of tiny pottery and glassware fragments.

The plan to restore the Westmoreland at Lower Halstow came to nothing, something to do with the intention of building a visitors centre at Lower Halstow where the public could watch the restoration for which the local council declined planning consent. Apparently.

All the above may be nonsense, it's a long time since I was last involved in anything to do with the restoration and maintenance of historic vessels.