Guess the Place

[John Walker]

Quick guess - Hartlip ?

[johnfilmer]

Well that was a lucky shot It was the possible Laurence/Lawrence confusion that satisfied the clue, but I still couldn't find a photo of the organ.
I found this photo while looking for ancestry information. You may have seen it before as I have since seen it elsewhere on t'internet.
The House in the foreground has gone, but the row of cottages still stand - fairly distinctive. The title and signpost were a bit of a giveaway, and the publisher's name a local one, so all (clumsily) removed.
Between A2 and A20

[grandarog]

Well Done .i went straight for Bapchild when Diapason said "Wrong end of Sittingbourne" for my Bobbing Guess.
I was misled and discounted Bapchild by not reading the caption properly on Google images for St Laurence.
The Image on there is for another Church not Bapchild.

[Diapason]

Your shot in the dark`s a bullseye, John.


Sometimes wrongly spelled "Lawrence".

[johnfilmer]

A bit of a shot in the dark, as I can’t find decent interior photos, but how about St Laurence at Bapchild?

[Diapason]

There isn`t a pipe organ at St. Catherine`s, Kingsdown, only a reed organ in a dreadful state. I believe there is also an old harmonium.


The church in question is very close to the A2.

[grandarog]

Hope you are right John Walker .
I had considered Kingsdown but there doesn't appear to be any photos of it', Organ.
There isn't any mention of an Organ in any of the historical articles I have found, so I discounted the Church.

[John Walker]

St Catherine's Church, Kingsdown, Kent ?

[MartinR]

I stuck "ME9" into Google Maps just to see if it would highlight the correct area, and it does!  What amused me though was that it solemnly draws the boundary up one side of Conyer Creek and down the other, then goes mad out around Stangate and Halstow Creeks.  It excludes Deadmen's Island, but then I suppose not many letters are delivered there!

[Diapason]

Not Oare, John.


I`ve made another error   - I didn`t check the post code ME9 NOT ME10.


Definitely not Faversham but only a few miles away. The name of this church is often mis-spelt. 

[John Walker]

Many of the churches I've searched don't seem to have photos of the organ.  Plenty of naves, altars, and fonts though.     St Peter's Church, Oare ?

[grandarog]

John Walker ,Im'e struggling with this one ,I have run out of churchs in ME10 East of Sittingbourne..
Faversham is ME 13 not ME10 thats next area to search.

[John Walker]

A church in Faversham?

[John Walker]

John Walker  -  It`s very rare to find two identical pipe organs.

Here's the Appledore church organ - very similar at a quick glance and then I saw the obvious differences  .

[Diapason]

Not St. Bartholomew, Bobbing, which is my avatar, granderog. Wrong end of Sittingbourne.


John Walker  -  It`s very rare to find two identical pipe organs.