Guess the Place

[John Walker]

Well done CAT - over to you ...

Pett Place
TQ 94 NE 11/57 17.9.52
GV
 

The house was built by the Sayer family in the early C18, but the core is a
C16 house which was widened and gutted leaving the roof intact. There are
also traces of Norman cellars. Two storeys red brick. Tiled roof with parapet.
Eleven sashes with glazing bars intact. The window bay at each end was possibly
added. The remainder has a shaped Dutch gable at each end and in the centre,
all 3 containing a wreath set in a square of moulding. The window bays below
these formerly end gables are flanked by pilasters and contain wider windows
than in the remainder of the front. Central porch with fluted pilasters and
projecting cornice. Doorway in this with rectangular fanlight and door of
6 fielded panels. The window bay at the east end, which was possibly added,
has a bay on each floor and another shaped gable over. Long L-shaped C19 addition
to the south-west.

[CAT]

Pett Place, Charing?

[John Walker]

West Kent?

Not West Kent - more East Kent but not as far as the coast.

[Beachbum]

West Kent?

[John Walker]

Private or religious ?

I'm sure it's private.

[Beachbum]

Private or religious ?

[stuartwaters]

That's no problem, I didn't get it, I just threw in another clue because it had stalled. I did a little research and found where it was but didn't have a photo to replace it.

[John Walker]

As it seems to have stalled - probably because I caused a bit of confusion, I'll put a new GTP up.

[Beachbum]

Apologies to stuartwaters as the link he attached does not open (see below) so I do not know what information was on the Link

[John Walker]

Ah, sorry. I thought Stewart Waters had got it. I was just adding some personal memories.  I've had a few goes lately so quite happy for Stewart to go next.

[Beachbum]

You have it John Walker, I must visit this Walk/Cycle Route this Summer.

The last Train was December 1952 (mainline problems) and the Lines removed in 1953.

https://crabandwinkle.org/

http://www.forgottenrelics.org/tunnels/tyler-hill-tunnel/

[John Walker]

I used to walk through that tunnel when I was a nipper.  I think the rails were still in place then but no trains.  At the age of eleven, I started secondary school at Archbishops CofE school.  The tunnel entrance was within the school grounds.  The first hundred feet was used as a gardening store.  There was a new wall to block the rest of the tunnel off.  In recent years there has been talk of repairing the collapsed section and making it part of the Crab and Winkle cycleway.  I don't think it was deemed as practical.

[Beachbum]

The tunnel is Grade II* Listed.  It is 828 yards (757 metres) long and was opened on May 3rd 1830.  It was the first railway tunnel with a regular passenger service – in the world.

[stuartwaters]

Would this by chance, have been the first purpose-built railway tunnel in Britain?

[Beachbum]

THE SILENCE IS DEAFENING.................