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Offline grandarog

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10361 on: September 29, 2024, 11:08:37 AM »
Thanks for your informative post stuartwaters. The Westmoreland Restoration had to be abandoned. She was stored in a Drydock moored to a Buoy in Lower Halstow reach for some while as Grants were sought  Unfortunately a gale force storm caused it  to sink. With the Aft section of Westmoreland smashed and extensive damage to the rest the restoration became unviable.
 There are details on this link:-
                  https://thamesbarge.org.uk/boats/westmoreland/

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10360 on: September 28, 2024, 06:02:02 PM »
Apologies for the delay, life has been very hectic for the last few months. Johnfilmer has it. Lower Halstow it is.

Edith May was restored on the Gridiron located in the dock there and as far as I'm aware, is still based there off-season.

There was a plan to restore another historic vessel there, the Westmoreland, the last of the Brick barges which plied their trade between the various brickworks in Lower Halstow, Otterham Creek and Funton Creek. They used to take a cargo of approximately 80,000 bricks to London and return with rubbish. Children were paid to sift through the rubbish looking for partly-burned coal or coke to fire the brick kilns. At Lower Halstow, a lot of that Victorian and Edwardian rubbish is still there, on the so-called 'Glass bottle beach', made up of millions of tiny pottery and glassware fragments.

The plan to restore the Westmoreland at Lower Halstow came to nothing, something to do with the intention of building a visitors centre at Lower Halstow where the public could watch the restoration for which the local council declined planning consent. Apparently.

All the above may be nonsense, it's a long time since I was last involved in anything to do with the restoration and maintenance of historic vessels.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10359 on: September 28, 2024, 08:41:44 AM »
I must visit some of these North Kent creeks.  The only one I've been to is Conyer and that was many years ago.  It seemed to be a tight community in those days but I guess like many places they've since been infiltrated by 'outsiders'.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10358 on: September 27, 2024, 06:19:51 PM »
Next Village to my Upchurch. "Edith May" on her home berth. I watched her restoration by Eric Geoff and Ed Gransden as it progressed to completion. :)

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10357 on: September 27, 2024, 05:08:55 PM »
Lower Halstow?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10356 on: September 27, 2024, 03:57:02 PM »
Just found it - will hold for now.   :)
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« Reply #10355 on: September 27, 2024, 02:27:32 PM »
Pass :) :) :)

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10354 on: September 27, 2024, 11:47:14 AM »
Thank you.

Lets try this one. Where is this?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10353 on: September 27, 2024, 11:30:46 AM »
Spot on StuartWaters - over to you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mereworth_Castle
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10352 on: September 27, 2024, 10:00:08 AM »
Mereworth Castle.

Oohh, my 900th post.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10351 on: September 25, 2024, 07:40:06 PM »
The entrance is off a major A road out of Maidstone.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10350 on: September 25, 2024, 12:21:47 AM »
Close to another recent one.
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Offline Johnnie Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10349 on: September 24, 2024, 08:46:08 AM »
Clue:  A waterway passes through the grounds. I'm guessing that it's on its way to the River Medway.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10348 on: September 23, 2024, 09:00:18 PM »
I visited there as a very young person, with my mother and a coachload of her Townswomen Guild adventurers.

Think the WI without the Jerusalem….

Come on someone other than the Usual Suspects, it’s definitely not rocket science, and quite enjoyable.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10347 on: September 23, 2024, 07:58:20 PM »
It's called a castle but I don't think it's a true castle.

Can't be seen on GSV but can be seen in Google's aerial maps  (as per my photo).
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