Fort Pitt, Kent
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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.
Fort Clarence
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Fort Clarence is a now defunct fortification that is located in Rochester, Kent, England.
Fort Pitt, Kent
…Named after Prime Minister William Pitt (who had died on 23 January 1806), Fort Pitt was planned as part of the defensives overlooking the River Medway: Fort Clarence, Fort Amherst and the Great Lines were visible from Fort Pitt, the whole providing a defensive ring to protect Chatham Dockyard from landward attack…
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.