Guess the Place

[John Walker]

Got it - I think.  Main gate into Sissinghurst?

[grandarog]

Getting closer ,keep heading South'ish.

[John Walker]

Boughton Monchelsea Place has similar archways but I can't locate the one in your photo. 

[grandarog]

You are heading in the right direction keep going South'ish.

[MartinR]

Most of my data was on a 5-disk RAID5 set.  I'd had a hot spare for ages, but started the conversion to RAID6 to improve reliability (irony)!  During the first critical phase the new disk went out, and the superblock was unrecoverable.   I reconfigured and restored 90% of the data, but the filesystem where I keep the virtual machines isn't backed up - I back up the VMs themselves.  The latest VM I was working on didn't yet have a backup system (that was what I was working on) when the crash occurred.  At least I know that my backup system (with the exception of the latest VM) works, there's no test like real life!

[John Walker]

Thanks for the co-ordinates MartinR.  Disc failure - the stuff of nightmares.  I hope it doesn't take too long to get back to normal workings.

[MartinR]

Appologies for the abscence.  I suffered a catastrophic disk failure and have been rebuilding my system and trying to redo temporary work that I hadn't yet backed up.

Location information for the gun emplacement at St. Mary's Bay:

• Nat Grid:                   TR 36771 44269
• Nearest Post Code:   CT15 6DZ
• Co-ords (WGS84):     51°08'55"N,001°23'02E or 51.14868,1.38403

Little Kit's Coty:

• Nat Grid:                   TQ 74418 60391
• Nearest Post Code:   ME20 7DE
• Co-ords (WGS84):     51°18'57"N,000°30'05"E or 51.31589,0.50141

Lympne Saxon shore Fort (Portus Lemanis):

• Nat Grid:                    TR 11842 34231
• Nearest Post Code:   CT21 4NS
• Co-ords (WGS84):     51°04'06"N,001°01'20"E or 51.06830,1.02226

Bearsted, Holy Cross:

• Nat Grid:                   TQ 80081 55510
• Nearest Post Code:   ME14 4EE
• Co-ords (WGS84):     51°16'13"N,000°34'48" or 51.27029,0.58012

[John Walker]

Archbishops Palace, Maidstone?

[grandarog]

Not Rochester more central.

[John Walker]

Quick guess - Rochester?

[grandarog]

Where are you all hiding,no guesses yet!
                                   
                                     1st Clue .Central Kent.

[grandarog]

Thanks Cat . Nice to have you back in the playing field.
Lets see who can guess where I saw this crest?

[CAT]

Congratulations grandarog, it is indeed Holy Cross church in Bearsted. A church I once worked at many years ago, but not as long ago as this pic, which is a hand coloured postcard from the early twentieth century. Thankfully the ivy, despite looking pleasantly rural, has all been eradicated from the tower as it usually does untold amounts of damage to masonry.

Over to you grandarog

[grandarog]

Pretty sure that's the Holy Cross Church at Bearsted .
Your photo is very old.
PS I visited about 5 years ago to check a name on the War Memorial in the Churchyard and it was all fenced off with a notice saying it was dangerous.

[CAT]

Still a very controversial subject as some archaeologist still say its polygonal, whilst others say it was traditionally rectangular. I favour the rectangular shape following the most recent excavations (c.1980) suggested the north wall at least was originally built on a series of driven oak piles forming a roughly east - west line and the masonry was constructed over these. Land slippages subsequently built soils against its outside (northern) face until the wall was pushed off its oak pile foundations and slid in sections down slope to form the pointed shape we see today. this process is still ongoing, so the fort may change shape again.

Here is my next church offering, but where?