EPW001413 ENGLAND (1920). General view of the town, Gravesend, from the east, 1920

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Pennawd [EPW001413] General view of the town, Gravesend, from the east, 1920
Cyfeirnod EPW001413
Dyddiad 7-June-1920
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Enw lle GRAVESEND
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Gwlad ENGLAND
Dwyreiniad / Gogleddiad 565132, 174307
Hydred / Lledred 0.37641183035023, 51.443156805062
Cyfeirnod Grid Cenedlaethol TQ651743

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gravesend west station platforms

sr
Saturday 11th of June 2022 08:03:21 PM
Rosherville Hotel / Rosherville V.A.D. Hospital (November 1914 to January 1919). See Lost London Hospitals site: https://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/rosherville.html

Kentishman
Friday 12th of February 2021 05:57:06 PM
Fire Station at Swan Yard

Kentishman
Friday 12th of February 2021 12:33:06 PM
The new Gravesend Customs House, built 1815/16. See https://www.discovergravesham.co.uk/gravesend/gravesend/Page-4.html

Kentishman
Friday 12th of February 2021 10:13:19 AM
Gravesend's original Customs House, built in 1782. Replaced by the new Customs House on the other side of the road in 1815/16. See Discover Gravesham, page 4: https://www.discovergravesham.co.uk/gravesend/gravesend/Page-4.html

Kentishman
Friday 12th of February 2021 10:08:56 AM
The Town Pier with passenger ferry service to Tilbury. The pier was authorised by Act of Parliament in 1833. A temporary pier was erected in that year, leading to riots by Gravesend watermen protesting about their loss of income. The Riot Act was read and troops were brought in from Tilbury and Chatham. The permanent Town Pier opened in 1834 with compensation being paid to the watermen. A toll of one penny (1d) was charged for every passenger under a previous Act of 1828. The population of Gravesend and Milton in 1831 was 9,445 and in 1833, steamers brought 290,000 passengers to and from the town. See https://www.discovergravesham.co.uk/gravesend-chronology/1821-1837.html

Kentishman
Wednesday 10th of June 2020 08:18:45 AM
The Sailors' Home, 1886 to 1918, then the Sea School for training Merchant Navy cadets to 1967 when the school relocated to a new campus on Denton Marshes

Kentishman
Friday 5th of June 2020 10:31:06 AM
Tram on tram line from Gravesend to Northfleet. In the photograph only one tram line is evident. This is in the centre of the road with passing loops strategically placed along the route. From a small extract from an 1897 25" to the mile map that I have seen, one such loop was in New Road, just west of the junction with Stone Street. Tram services ended in Gravesend in 1929.

Kentishman
Monday 1st of June 2020 02:02:21 PM
The 850 foot river frontage of Northfleet Dockyard, including 6 slipways with a dry dock at the western end. The Dockyard was founded by Thomas Pitcher in 1788 and passed to his sons William and Henry upon his death. It closed in 1860 upon William's death. The site was mainly unused for many years until it was purchased by Bowaters in May 1914 for its new paper mill. The First World War prevented development of the site until 1923, paper production commencing in 1924. For several dockyard buildings that survived the initial Bowaters' development, see EPWO19895.

Kentishman
Monday 1st of June 2020 01:59:13 PM
The old Red Lion Cement Works' deep water pier

Kentishman
Monday 1st of June 2020 01:22:00 PM
Henley's jetty

Kentishman
Monday 1st of June 2020 01:18:01 PM
The remains of Rosherville Pier

Kentishman
Monday 1st of June 2020 01:15:13 PM
Imperial Paper Mills' jetty

Kentishman
Monday 1st of June 2020 01:13:33 PM
This image shows the site of the southern end of a pontoon bridge erected across the Thames during WW1 to aid the movement of troops. In this photo dated 1920, there appears to be a slipway in front of the Clarendon which may have been the exact point at which the southern end of the pontoon came ashore. A pontoon bridge across the tidal Thames was built from Clarendon Lawn, Gravesend, to near Tilbury Fort in Essex. Information about the bridge is sparse and contradictory. The 'Discover Gravesham' council website (http://www.discovergravesham.co.uk/gravesend-chronology/1910-1916.html ) states that it was built in 1914 using 70 lighters (a shallow barge for loading and unloading ships) but was dismantled after a few months. 'Tilbury and Chadwell Memories' (http://www.tilburyandchadwellmemories.org.uk/page/the_tilbury_to_gravesend_pontoon_bridge_1915-1918 ) gives more detail and states that the pontoon was in place from 1915 to 1918, using 67 lighters. The BBC 'World War One at Home' site ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0232hsx ) gives dates of 15th November 1914 until the end of the war. Details provided and several images on Google show that there were two carriage ways with a total width of about 20 feet. There was also a removable section of about 600 feet to allow shipping through - the Thames was one of the busiest, if not he busiest, river for shipping in the World at this time.

Kentishman
Monday 26th of December 2016 08:45:52 PM
Fort House, the home of General Gordon from shortly after his arrival in 1865 until his departure in 1871. In addition to his role as Commandant of the Thames Forts, he was also a tireless worker for the poor of the town and used two rooms of Fort House as a 'ragged school'. See: http://www.discovergravesham.co.uk/famous-people/general-gordon.html

Kentishman
Tuesday 9th of August 2016 03:08:59 PM

Kentishman
Tuesday 9th of August 2016 02:54:10 PM
Gravesend West Street station (so named between 1899 and September 1949, previously Gravesend, subsequently Gravesend West). It was opened by the London Chatham and Dover Railway in 1886. From 1916 until 1939 or 40, Batavia, a Dutch shipping line, ran a service from here to Rotterdam with a 'Continental Express' rail link to London Victoria.

Kentishman
Tuesday 9th of August 2016 02:50:32 PM
Clarendon road,Gravesend

jayneB
Tuesday 3rd of May 2016 04:10:38 PM
Harmer Street

Rudgey
Wednesday 13th of August 2014 08:47:33 PM

Class31
Tuesday 30th of October 2012 09:16:30 AM