EPW062150 ENGLAND (1939). The River Medway at Chatham Ness, Rochester, from the south-west, 1939

Lost entrance to WW2 Royal Marine deep shelters that run under High Street, on site of former social club.

The rope making building

Former Rose pub where ARP had there building repair stores in pub yard

This street took a beating by the Germans in WW2, compere with Google to see bungalows which replaced terraced houses.

This building made school meals before?/after the war until the early 70's, we used to play here when it closed!

The old Regent petrol station and workshop still there in the late 60's

Fort Delce

The old Royal Marine barracks now Medway Council

Borstal rd

Short Brothers seaplane factory.

Fort Pitt - a Napoleonic era fort now a girls school.

St Margaret's Church

Mill House

WW2 Pill Box

Upnor Castle

Quarry Terrace known locally as "Cottage on the cliff" several terrace houses for workers at local cement works with a pub on the end called Cottage on the Cliff.

Pub COTTAGE ON THE CLIFFE

Hoo church

T.S.Arethusa

Whitewall creek

Castle street Upnor

Two paddle steamers. These are "Queen Of Thanet" and "Queen Of Kent", belonging to the New Medway Steam Packet Company, which were originally mine sweepers built during WWI but in 1939 they were laid up out of service.They were subsequently sold to Red Funnel Steamers at Southampton in 1949 but were scrapped in 1951/52.

In the 1960s I remember this as a bomb disposal unit and the grounds around the buildings were strewn with defused bombs. I was fascinated by a flying bomb which was there..

Is this Fort Clarence. Napolianic war defences

Watts Alms Houses

very old covered dock which sadly burnt down in late 1966.

Council housing from Dale Road to Breton Road

Backfields.

Southfields/ Compare this photo with others taken in the 1920s 0f this same area .

Rochester Girls Grammar School (as was)

Cecil Road

Rochester Lawn Tennis Club

Ffords Alms Houses

A lost football ground within the old dockyard.

remains of Formby's Whitewall cement works

Crown & Quarry cement works

Cory's coal wharf

Rochester Castle

Rochester Cathedral

Rochester Maidstone Road

Delce Road

City Way

The Jacksons Recreation Ground

Sun Pier

Short Empire Flying-boats at the Short Bros Factory, Rochester