EAW052950 ENGLAND (1953). Chatham Ness, Chatham Reach and Chatham Dockyard, Frindsbury, from the south-west, 1953

2ndWW PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24): S0009099, e02051.

Remains of the base of a, then, part removed 2ndWW Bofors LAA Gun Tower, e43676.

2ndWW PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24): S0012568, e05897.

Probably the site of the admin and accommodation buildings associated with the nearby 2ndWW HAA Gun Battery, e12706.

Site of a 2ndWW HAA Gun Battery, location Tower Hill, GDA Thames and Medway, designation TS8/-, e12706.

These three buildings were built in 1828 under command of Sea Lord Melville as the first Naval Hospital in Chatham, and could hold approximately 252 sailors and dockyard workers (who up until that time were treated on unsanitary hospital ships,where disease was rife). In 1905 it moved to what RNH Chatham, now Medway Maritime Hospital, and the buildings were converted to house the Royal Marines instead. Eventually, it was demolished in 1960, and in 1967 work on the Melville Court Housing Estate began on the site.

Limehouse Reach

Frindsbury Parish Church

Strood Dock

Rochester Cathedral

site of Formby's Whitewall cement works

Rochester Gas Works

Crown & Quarry cement works