EPW057986 ENGLAND (1938). Orchard and Joyce Green Infectious Diseases Hospitals, Dartford Marshes, 1938
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| Title | [EPW057986] Orchard and Joyce Green Infectious Diseases Hospitals, Dartford Marshes, 1938 |
| Reference | EPW057986 |
| Date | 17-July-1938 |
| Link | |
| Place name | DARTFORD MARSHES |
| Parish | |
| District | |
| Country | ENGLAND |
| Easting / Northing | 554552, 176310 |
| Longitude / Latitude | 0.22515810987434, 51.464141659622 |
| National Grid Reference | TQ546763 |
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 Water Tower @ TQ 54749 76177 |
 Ferrers |
Wednesday 3rd of March 2021 08:20:40 PM |
| The photograph here: http://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=8541.0
shows that during WW1, hangars and other service buildings for RFC / RAF Joyce Green were clustered around the Long Reach Tavern. |
 Kentishman |
Monday 25th of January 2016 09:53:28 PM |
See also EPW001410 for a 1920 image of the airfield buildings and the Long Reach Tavern. |
Kentishman |
Sunday 4th of September 2016 10:55:53 AM |
| River Darenth |
Kentishman |
Friday 22nd of January 2016 10:47:23 AM |
| Thames Ammunition Company works, see also image EAW048379 for the works while flooded in 1953.
http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Hugh_Gorham_Ticehurst
http://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=2754.0
Adjacent to these works was the Trench Warfare Filing factory, erected in 1915 to make munitions for 2 inch and 6 inch mortars and managed by Thames Ammunition Co. http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Trench_Warfare_Filling_Factories
After the end of WW1, the factory was used for decommissioning munitions. A tragic consequence was that on the 19th February 1924, while dismantling stocks of Verey light cartridges, 11 young women and a male forman were killed in an explosion and fire. Questions were subsequently asked in Parliament as to why W V Gilbert Ltd, who was undertaking the work, did not comply with the Explosives Act, which would have limited the personnel within a building to a maximum of 3?
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1924/feb/20/munition-factory-explosion-slades-green#S5CV0169P0_19240220_HOC_302
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1924/feb/21/munition-factory-explosion-slades-green#S5CV0169P0_19240221_HOC_283
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/1924/feb/25/munition-factory-explosion-slade-green#S5CV0170P0_19240225_CWA_217
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1924/mar/06/ammunition-breaking-down-factories#S5CV0170P0_19240306_HOC_91
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Kentishman |
Friday 22nd of January 2016 10:42:30 AM |
| River Thames |
Kentishman |
Friday 22nd of January 2016 09:35:19 AM |
| Crayfordness |
Kentishman |
Friday 22nd of January 2016 09:33:31 AM |
| From 1916 to 1919, Orchard hospital was the Dartford Australian Auxiliary Hospital for the treatment of wounded soldiers. |
Kentishman |
Thursday 21st of January 2016 08:42:38 PM |
| Site of RFC/RAF Joyce Green. |
Kentishwolf |
Tuesday 7th of July 2015 07:42:53 PM |
The main buildings were clustered around the Long Reach Tavern which was off this image, over to the right. See image EPW001410 for these as at 1920. |
Kentishman |
Monday 5th of September 2016 08:32:54 AM |
| Hospital tramway (closed in 1936). |
dadave |
Monday 26th of August 2013 12:49:03 AM |
User Comment Contributions
 The site of RFC/RAF Joyce Green. WW1 airfield. |
Kentishwolf |
Tuesday 7th of July 2015 07:41:29 PM |