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Offline johnfilmer

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4982 on: July 27, 2021, 10:44:04 AM »
Not the Medway MartinR, go east.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4981 on: July 27, 2021, 10:24:06 AM »
JohnWalker. Many thanks for that additional history to GDP, very interesting. I was intrigued by the Chinese Chippendale staircase. Anyone been there who might explain please?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4980 on: July 27, 2021, 10:02:51 AM »
IS the river the Medway?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4979 on: July 27, 2021, 09:46:39 AM »
Thanks JW, a bit of a lucky guess if I'm honest.
This next one is a 1906 photo, the building still exists - but as ever, where?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4978 on: July 26, 2021, 09:43:15 PM »
Chilston Park?


You've got it JohnFilmer - Well done.  Over to you.
 


History of Chilston Park Hotel
Chilston Park dates back to at least 1100, when 'Childeston' was owned by the Fitzhamon lords of Leeds Castle.
One influential owner of Chilston Park was Thomas Best, MP for Rochester, and a member of a well known Kentish family. During the Bests’ occupation between 1736 and 1819, much rebuilding was carried out. Inside, the rooms on the east side were remodelled to accommodate a staircase hall of Chinese Chippendale inspiration, and outside, the grounds were transformed into a picturesque parkland, complete with its own "natural" lake.
The Bests drained the canal east of the house, but left the pond to the south west of the garden. A sundial in the grounds bears the family's coat of arms and gives quaint bearings to such far-flung locations as Peking.
In 1821, the property passed to George Douglas, the eldest son of Alexander Douglas of Baads, Midlothian, an event which marked the start of a family connection which was to last until the sale of the house in 1983. The Douglas's were related to the Akers family of Lancashire, who were involved in the Caribbean sugar trade in the 17th and 18th century.
The head of the Akers family bore the unusual Christian name of Aretas, which was to travel through seven generations.
Aretas I married Jean Douglas, George's aunt, in 1752, and in 1795 Aretas II wed the daughter of the Reverend James Ramsay, a keen abolitionist, and rector of Teston. A portrait of Aretas II can be seen in the staircase hall.
George Douglas, a bachelor, had an adopted daughter named Margaret Brazier, who in 1830 married one of George's relations, James Stoddart Douglas. He inherited the estate upon George's death in 1836 and in 1873 the Baads estate in Midlothian was left to him. After the death of his wife, Stoddart Douglas married Sarah Jenkin, whose portrait can be seen in the former morning room next to the conservatory.
During her years at the Kentish house, Sarah had a swimming bath built in the woodlands near the south lake. All that remains of her pool, set in a leafy glade, is a trickle of water amongst traces of brickwork.
In 1858, James Stoddart Douglas left Chilston to a distant, but geographically close, relative, Aretas Akers V. He was then living in the converted remains of a Benedictine abbey at West Malling in Kent. Aretas V became the 1st Viscount of Chilston and was the son of Reverend Aretas Akers IV, Rector of Malling between 1824-1856.
In the same year as he inherited the house and estate, Aretas inherited the Scottish property of Baads in Midlothian. He went on to marry Adeline Austen Smith and took her back to his Kentish home. Within a few years, the ancient rooms rang to the sound of children's laughter as they brought the old house to life.
Upon inheriting Baads, Aretas V adopted the surname of his great grandmother Jean, to whom he owed his fortune. For 30 years Akers-Douglas represented the St Augustine's division of Kent in Parliament, eventually becoming home secretary in 1902. Portraits of him at Chilston show a young man with auburn hair and side-whiskers, and later, the corpulent, frock-coated politician he became.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4977 on: July 26, 2021, 07:59:54 PM »
Chilston Park?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4976 on: July 26, 2021, 07:40:00 PM »
Museum of kent Rural Life?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4975 on: July 26, 2021, 06:51:56 PM »
Leeds Castle  ??

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4974 on: July 26, 2021, 03:35:45 PM »
Country park at Allington-was the Maidstone zoo at Cobtree Manor no idea what it's called now


Not there Pete.


Head roughly SE from the Allington area.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4973 on: July 26, 2021, 01:57:19 PM »
Country park at Allington-was the Maidstone zoo at Cobtree Manor no idea what it's called now

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4972 on: July 26, 2021, 01:12:06 PM »
Can be seen on GSV including where it leads to.


Mid Kent and Rural


Close to a railway line, river and motorway

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4971 on: July 25, 2021, 11:21:58 PM »
Thanks Pete, Not sure why but I went for Snodland as my first search.


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Where does this drive lead to?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4970 on: July 25, 2021, 08:13:11 PM »
That's the place-all yours

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4969 on: July 25, 2021, 05:00:03 PM »
I thought it looked familiar but couldn’t place it. I worked in Snodland for about 8years from 1972 and drove past the place every day :-\
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4968 on: July 25, 2021, 04:38:26 PM »
Freemason's Arms, Snodland ?