"Chatham Dockyard from Fort Pitt", 1831. This is the view north from the fort, down the River Medway towards the estuary.

Fort Pitt was a fort built between 1805 and 1819 on the high ground of the boundary between Chatham and Rochester, Kent. It did not last long, becoming a hospital for invalid soldiers in 1828, with an asylum added in 1849. Florence Nightingale started the first Army Medical School there in 1860, but by the 1920s the hospital was closed and the site converted into a girls school. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (862x524, 433 KB) Summary Engraving of Chatham Dockyard from Fort Pitt from Irelands History of Kent, Vol. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (862x524, 433 KB) Summary Engraving of Chatham Dockyard from Fort Pitt from Irelands History of Kent, Vol. ... Chatham Dockyard, located on the River Medway in Kent, England, came into existence at the time when, following the Reformation, relations with the Catholic countries of Europe had worsened, and thus requiring added defences. ... The River Medway in England flows for 112 km from Turners Hill, in West Sussex, through Tonbridge, Maidstone and the Medway Towns conurbation in Kent, to the River Thames at Sheerness, where it is the latters last tributary. ... Fortifications (Latin fortis, strong, and facere, to make) are military constructions designed for defensive warfare. ... 1805 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1819 common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... This article contains a trivia section. ... Rochester is a small town in Kent, at the lowest bridging point of the River Medway about 30 miles (50 km) from London. ... This article is about the county in England. ... A physician visiting the sick in a hospital. ... 1828 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... A psychiatric hospital (also called a mental hospital or asylum) is a hospital specializing in the treatment of persons with mental illness. ... 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910), who came to be known as The Lady with the Lamp, was a pioneer of modern nursing, and a noted statistician. ... Founded by U.S. Army Brigadier General George Miller Sternberg, MD in 1893, the Army Medical School (AMS) was by some reckonings the worlds first school of public health and preventive medicine. ... 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ... The 1920s is a decade sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... Students in Rome, Italy. ...

Nothing is now visible of the original fort, but the name is still given to the hill on which it stood. From the hill it is possible to see Fort Clarence tower to the west, and the remains of Fort Amherst to the north east. A ditch, wall and (reputedly) tunnels linked the three into a single fortified Napoleonic defensive line, defending the naval docks against a (land-based) attack from the south. Fort Clarence is sited across St Margarets Street in Rochester, Kent. ... Fort Amherst was started in 1756 at the Southern end of the Brompton lines protecting Chatham Dockyard, Chatham, Kent, with the last works about 1820, the lower part is now opened to the public by the Fort Amherst and Lines Trust. ...

Fort Pitt is also the location of the fictional duel between Mr. Tracy Tupman and Dr. Slammer in the Charles Dickens novel The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Dickens redirects here. ... The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, better known as The Pickwick Papers, is the first novel by Charles Dickens. ...

Fort Pitt Grammar School for Girls

Fort Pitt School is built upon the site of the old fort, sharing the campus with Mid Kent College and the University College for the Creative Arts (formerly KIAD). The school was Girls technical school until their abolishment (the tripartite system was replace by just High and Grammar schools) in the 1970s where it was converted to a grammar school for girls, aged 11 to 18.

As well as providing selective education for girls from Year 7 to Year 11, the school has a sixth form where a wide range of subjects can be studied. An accelerated curriculum has recently been introduced, which means girls complete KS3 in Years 7 and 8, and study for their GCSE examinations in Year 9 and Year 10.

Fort Pitt has a newly introduced House system; and all girls are encouraged to represent their Houses. Activies include House Arts (which will rotate between dance- this year won by Sharman House, drama and music), House Charities and interhouse sports. The Houses are: Sharman- Green Rhodes- Yellow Parkes- White Rowling- Blue Pankhurs- Purple Rowling- Red

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