Fort Clarence is a now defunct fortification that is located in Rochester, Kent, England.
Fort Clarence today
The archway by the fort's drawbridge was demolished in the 1930s. The fort, on the left, is now converted into flats.
Fort Pitt is a Napoleonic era fort on the high ground of the boundary between Chatham and Rochester, Kent.
Fort Clarence
…range of domestic building and barracks. After 1815, the fort served a variety of purposes, including military prison and lunatic asylum. After nearby Fort Pitt became a military hospital, the patients were moved from Clarence to a new asylum, although the prison remained, with accounts of floggings being given…
Fort Pitt from Fort Amherst, 1838. The tower (centre) and blockhouse (right) are now demolished, but the hospital building (left) is extant.
View from Fort Pitt to the north, 1831 (with Chatham in the foreground, and the dockyard (left) and Fort Amherst (right) in the distance).
Invalided soldiers in the Fort Pitt Hospital garden, c 1855
Queen Victoria visiting Invalided Soldiers at Fort Pitt Hospital, 1855.