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Offline johnfilmer

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8560 on: June 14, 2023, 08:52:48 AM »
You are close JW.

I try and stick with places that I know, alternatively you may say that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree  :)
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8559 on: June 14, 2023, 12:07:55 AM »
Doddington Area ?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8558 on: June 13, 2023, 07:41:13 PM »
Resurrecting a previous theme, this green post box suggestes that this was the Post Office. However, there is another post box in this village, not far away, outside what was clearly a shop in the past.

I will do some digging about, meantime, where are we?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8557 on: June 13, 2023, 03:45:14 PM »
Your vector clue was only a couple of miles short of going right over my house!

Then I kickstarted the brain cell and remembered that an acquaintance worked making fireworks around there. He is friends with someone there and did a couple of months between being made redundant after 20+yrs, and then rehired by the new owners. They are a bit busy now, they make military optical equipment.

I’ll get back to my lap top later on.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8556 on: June 13, 2023, 02:18:16 PM »
Johnfilmer you have it, over to you.
Kingsdown Light Anti Aircraft Battery. I believe 4 x 3.7 inch guns.
Google Earth image below from 1960 is how I remember it.
 Some of us kids biked up there to watch the Army taking out the Guns around the   Coronation time. It is now an industrial site of a Firework Factory.There were also 2 guns at the edge of Minching Wood by the road side facing East.They were still there for a few more years. I believe the Cubs or Scouts did a eat a meal in an unusual place Challenge in the underground Ammo Store there quite a few years ago. Dont know if it is still accessibly or has been filled in.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8555 on: June 13, 2023, 11:50:43 AM »
I think that it’s at Kingsdown, near the junction of Kingsdown Road and Dully Lane.

Possibly an AA battery position originally.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8554 on: June 12, 2023, 10:08:54 PM »
No. You need to go South East from Centre of the peninsular roughly 30 k out into the countryside.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8553 on: June 12, 2023, 07:01:04 PM »
Hoo Peninsular?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8552 on: June 12, 2023, 06:39:25 PM »
To far go west'ish again.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8551 on: June 12, 2023, 06:27:37 PM »
Near the Oare gunpowder works?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8550 on: June 12, 2023, 11:02:31 AM »
No further East.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8549 on: June 12, 2023, 10:20:29 AM »
Wells Firework Factory, Dartford?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8548 on: June 12, 2023, 10:10:55 AM »
Yes, Yes, but where is it?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8547 on: June 12, 2023, 09:02:40 AM »
Firework factory?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8546 on: June 12, 2023, 08:27:30 AM »
Military/defence?
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