Fort Pitt is a Napoleonic era fort on the high ground of the boundary between Chatham and Rochester, Kent.
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.
Chatham is a town located within the Medway unitary authority in the ceremonial county of Kent, England. The town forms a conurbation with neighbouring towns Gillingham, Rochester, Strood and Rainham. In 2020 it had a population of 80,596.
Chatham Riverside from Sun Pier
Looking from the river at Sun Pier along the Great Barrier Ditch, to the Gun Platforms at Fort Amherst
Medway Council Building at Gun Wharf
Chatham Town Hall (opened in 1900) now serves as a theatre.