Guess the Place

[grandarog]

Maidstone not a Medway Town .
Some of our members are sure to  have visited this place and seen the guess view when leaving.


Time for a Clue very popular place for families to visit in fine weather.
South of A2 North of M2.

[John Walker]

Assuming that Maidstone is classed as a Medway Town - Moat Park area?

[grandarog]

Not there John walker.
Sorry for ambiguity MartinR. Located within the Medway Towns approx 7-10 k from River Medway.

[John Walker]

Museum of Kent Life ?

[MartinR]

Err, is that "not far from Medway" (the place) or "not far from the River Medway"?

[grandarog]

Not far from Medway, John Walker. Northish of Beltring, MartinR.
Its at a popular place.

[MartinR]

That looks like a square oast behind the foreground building with the ventilation turret.  Would we be near Beltring?

[John Walker]

Near the River Medway ?

[grandarog]

Way off. Head N/W ish about 20 miles or so.

[John Walker]

Bethersden Area ?

[grandarog]

Thanks johnfilmer I trawled up and down the Medway for ages until you said downstream from Wateringbury.
Try this one next.
Where would you have been to spot this roofline.

[John Walker]

The photo rang a bell as soon as I saw it.  The penny dropped but I decided to hold fire, as I've put a few up lately.  I went over the bridge a number of times in the late 60s while repairing Imperial Automatic Washing Machines on a freelance basis.  I covered Kent, South London, and Sussex in my minivan.
Later, I crossed the bridge to support our daughter who was doing a charity bungee jump outside the Bull Inn pub at the top of the hill.  Later, I crossed it again to attend a nephew's baptism in the Parish Church at the top of the hill.  I don't remember noticing the row of huts though.

[johnfilmer]

That’s the place Grandarog. I used to use this route into work at our shop in Tonbridge Road if the M20 was a problem, so spent many a happy while in the queue waiting for either the level crossing or a timid driver to grow a pair and get on the bridge before the next wave came the other way.


A friend lived on an old Broads cruiser just along the towpath on the other side of the bridge in the early 70s and we climbed the hill to the pub at the top on a “few” occasions.


I was slightly worried that it would become the Two Johnnies Show for a while. How many candles?


Over to you Grandarog.

[MartinR]

Well done Grandarog.  GSV gives John Filmer's view exactly.  Camera at:

• WGS84:    51°15'14"N, 000°29'04"E or 51.25398,0.484486
• Nat'l Grid: TQ 73471 53466
• Post:         ME15 0JG

[grandarog]

Left side of track leading from Station Road to the Boatyard at East Farleigh.