1
Building site off Maidstone Road, Rochester, 2012
Looking across a temporary car park for the builders.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 25 Jun 2012
0.01 miles
2
Footpath to Walderslade
This path leads from the A229 Maidstone Road past the former Mid-Kent College towards Vale Drive, before heading onwards to Walderslade.
The former college buildings are being demolished and a new housing estate will replace it.
Image: © David Anstiss
Taken: 3 Jan 2012
0.01 miles
3
Contractors car park, Horsted Park
As seen from the footpath from Concord Avenue towards Maidstone Road.
This large car park shows how busy the site is during the day!
Image: © David Anstiss
Taken: 8 May 2013
0.02 miles
4
Mid Kent College, now closed
This campus on A229 Maidstone Road, has just recently closed. A new campus in Chatham on Prince Arthur Road, has recently opened to replace this.
Image: © David Anstiss
Taken: 16 Aug 2009
0.02 miles
5
Building site off Maidstone Road, Rochester, 2012
Horsted Park, a redevelopment of the Mid Kent College site.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 25 Jun 2012
0.03 miles
6
We're Moving - we'ved moved
Mid Kent College has moved from A229 Maidstone Road campus, to a new campus on Prince Arthur Road.
Image: © David Anstiss
Taken: 16 Aug 2009
0.03 miles
7
Building site off Maidstone Road, Rochester, 2012
Redevelopment of the Mid Kent College site.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 25 Jun 2012
0.04 miles
8
Lightning Jet Plane Memorial
On A229 to Rochester. Rochester Airport in background.
This Lightning aircraft, ZF581, was built on 19th December 1967. It saw active service in the Royal Saudi Air Force. Its final flight was in January 1986,it was then rescued from a scrap-yard in 2000 then was restored by volunteers on behalf of BAE Systems. The Flight Control and Air Data Systems for the Lightning were designed and produced in Rochester by BAE Systems. They provided the foundations for avionics industry in Rochester from the 1960's. This aircraft commemorates the legacy, the aerospace heritage of the Medway Towns and the role played by Rochester Airport in the development of local aviation.
Image: © David Anstiss
Taken: 19 Oct 2008
0.05 miles
9
A229 approaching the A230 junction
Image: © N Chadwick
Taken: 26 Jan 2013
0.05 miles
10
The demolition of Mid-Kent College, Chatham
This large college on the A229 Maidstone Road, closed a few years ago.
A new college has been built in Gillingham. See
Image
Countryside Properties are going to build an estate of houses on the site, after the buildings have been demolished. Under the new name Horsted Park.
See http://www.countryside-properties.com/new-homes-in-kent-chatham/horsted-chatham/main-details/861555.aspx for more details about the estate.
Image: © David Anstiss
Taken: 3 Jan 2012
0.07 miles