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Offline grandarog

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10014 on: Today at 08:18:49 AM »
Beachbum You must be joking with King Arthur Court. Sittingbourne doesn't have any archtechural marvels.
Exeptions being Church,s and the Artdeco  Burtons shop front and the old Odeon Cinema.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10013 on: Today at 12:38:38 AM »
Kings Lodge, Maidstone?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10012 on: Today at 12:25:38 AM »
King Arther Court, Sittingbourne?

More central Kent. This building was purpose built.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10011 on: May 04, 2024, 11:53:46 PM »
King Arther Court, Sittingbourne?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10010 on: May 03, 2024, 08:30:26 PM »
Too near the edge of Kent Beachbum.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10009 on: May 03, 2024, 07:57:12 PM »
Wild guess: Charles Court, Tunbridge Wells?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10008 on: May 02, 2024, 06:07:54 PM »
Very interesting one JohnFilmer and thank you for telling us about your family.

Next one ...

Another lost building.  This is part of a large building.  Now replaced by a Sheltered Housing Complex named after a king.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10007 on: May 02, 2024, 02:29:13 PM »
Location:
  • Nat Grid:            TQ 79120 63236
  • Nearest Post Code:   ME7 3PD
  • Co-ords (WGS84)         51°20'24"N,000°34'13"E or 51.33999,0.57024

The OS 6" County series 1869 (as mentioned in the link John provided) can be seen overlaid over modern satellite imagery here: https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.0&lat=51.34032&lon=0.57249&layers=257&b=1&o=44

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10006 on: May 02, 2024, 11:01:23 AM »
JW has it, the Chapel of St Mary Magdelene at Lidsing.

I found an interesting article with more pictures https://jamesweirhbcblog.wordpress.com/2014/07/10/the-lost-chapel-of-lidsing-kent/

My interest comes from my mother's grandfather who left his job in Chatham Dockyard, as an Anglesmith, after his wife died in 1903. He left Luton and took on The Harrow at Lidsing. My mother visited frequently, the family walking from Luton Road and back on a Sunday afternoon. She always pronounced the hamlet as Lidjin.

Walter Colyer went on to marry his Irish barmaid Catherine, 20years his junior, and kept the Harrow until his death in October 1921.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10005 on: May 01, 2024, 08:01:11 PM »
Chilham location:
  • Nat Grid:            TR 06763 53592
  • Nearest Post Code:   CT4 8BZ
  • Co-ords (WGS84):         51°14'38"N,000°57'40"E or 51.24402,0.96099

Apologies if I'm getting later at doing the locations but I'm finding sitting at the computer increasingly uncomfortable, so need to do things in short bursts.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10004 on: May 01, 2024, 07:33:57 PM »
The lost chapel of Lidsing?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10003 on: May 01, 2024, 07:27:43 PM »
Go south from Hoo, to the very edge of Medway. Maidstone  creeps up to surprise many.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10002 on: May 01, 2024, 06:48:18 PM »
Never seen this before.  Hoo area?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10001 on: May 01, 2024, 05:46:34 PM »
Well that's me rumbled - I stole the image from there grandarog! I was looking for something else, but found that first, and in a hurry to get something other than a bus shelter as a clue...
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10000 on: May 01, 2024, 05:17:06 PM »
johnfilmer.
 Know it so will hold off.
 You can read all about it in the  Medway Action Forum booklet. March 2018 Issue 540.