epw000060a ENGLAND (1920). Kingsnorth oil refinery, Kingsnorth, 1920

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Details

Title [EPW000060A] Kingsnorth oil refinery, Kingsnorth, 1920
Reference EPW000060A
Date February-1920
Link
Place name KINGSNORTH
Parish HOO ST. WERBURGH
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 580839, 173039
Longitude / Latitude 0.60156379780222, 51.426968759313
National Grid Reference TQ808730

Pins

Faint quadrant marks are still visible to show where the airship hangar doors opened.

Kentishman
Saturday 23rd of January 2016 05:25:10 PM

Class31
Tuesday 11th of August 2015 02:20:35 PM
site of RNAS/RAF Kingsnorth

Graham Yaxley
Wednesday 4th of March 2015 06:35:16 PM
Are these craters?

Brian Wilkinson
Thursday 14th of June 2012 04:22:35 PM
Fuel Storage? Petro chemical works to left of image? I can't see any vehicles!

Dennis Wilkinson
Tuesday 12th of June 2012 01:04:39 PM
Looks like it. But why all the buildings; are they barracks? Some is it military?

Alan McFarlane
Thursday 14th of June 2012 08:36:02 AM
Some great hay stacks in this photo!

Whittocks
Wednesday 30th of May 2012 10:40:49 PM
The fuel tanks seem to be disguised as grass so military is likely.

Ken Tenor
Tuesday 26th of June 2012 06:24:40 PM

User Comment Contributions

I am interested in how you have dated this photo.

The admiralty didn't put the site up for sale till 1922 when it was purchased by Messrs. Holm & Co. Ltd. They set up timber pulping equipment in what was described as the "Balloon Stores Depot" for the papermaking. Berry Wiggins Oil refinery was not built till 1928. This does look like a shot of an oil refinery and the bases of the demolished airsheds are clearly visable in the foreground so I would suggest the picture is 1930 rather than 1920

Tina Bilbe
Tuesday 11th of August 2015 03:09:25 PM
Hi Tina,



The reference for this image is recorded in the Aerofilms Ltd Rgister for 1920. That's where the date currently comes from. A number of people have spotted things in the image that suggest it is actually later in date. Maybe Aerofilms Ltd re-used an old reference number for this image? We've seen that happen at least once before with some pictures of a factory at Leamington Spa, so there is a precedent. If, with your help, we can nail the date to a better year or year range, we can ammend the record. What would you say is the earliest and latest that the image could have been taken?



Yours, Katy



Britain from Above

Cataloguing Team Leader

Katy Whitaker
Friday 31st of August 2012 11:41:27 AM
I would put this photo' much later than 1930 as suggested. It appears to me that it was taken moments before 'Image reference EAW000059' on flight AFL3692, which dates this as 31st March 1946 instead of the attributed date of February 1920.

Kentishman
Tuesday 11th of August 2015 02:05:42 PM
Hi Kentishman

I've compared the two photos and I agree that they were taken at the same date. I've checked the positions of wagons in the sidings and a lorry and they are identical vehicles in the same positions in both photos. I can't find any inconsistencies. Therefore I agree your 1946 date.

Class31
Tuesday 11th of August 2015 02:34:01 PM
Thanks Class 31, I was using the haystacks as noted by Whittocks and the dark area of spoil to the right of the upper hangar base as my main references.

Kentishman
Tuesday 11th of August 2015 03:09:25 PM
Kingsnorth refinery, Kent, on the Hoo peninsula north of the River Medway.

Oil drefinery built on the WW1 airship station. The bases of the airship hangars can be seen in the foreground.

242_Cat
Monday 30th of July 2012 12:43:07 PM
Dear 242_Cat,



That’s great; we’ve reviewed your suggestion and thanks to your help we can update the catalogue. The revised record will appear here in due course. Hope you have the same success solving some of our other mysteries!



Katy Whitaker

Britain from Above Cataloguer

Katy Whitaker
Monday 2nd of July 2012 12:02:58 PM
Are the scanned images transparencies? Because, unless I'm reading it wrongly, this "UNLOCATED" image has been scanned in wrong-side-up. I noticed that this image and epw000062 that shows the same site appear to be mirrored. Here, from the 'messy' area at the bottom, go 'up', and then about 90° *right* to get to the the oil-tank farm. But on epw000062 for the same path one has to turn *left*… Or am I just confused??

Alan McFarlane
Wednesday 4th of July 2012 10:50:20 PM
Can you tell me wherethis image came from please. I can't find it anywhere else on the internet at the moment but I'm sure I have seen it somewhere before.

Tina Bilbe
Saturday 28th of July 2012 10:49:33 AM
I think Alan's right - from the shape of the railway, I would say that EPW000062 has been reversed, and that this view is correct.

Tony D
Monday 30th of July 2012 12:43:07 PM
Berry Wiggins with the old Airship manufacturing station in the foreground.

John
Tuesday 26th of June 2012 07:43:13 AM