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Offline grandarog

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6640 on: May 15, 2022, 08:42:49 AM »
Not far from Medway, John Walker. Northish of Beltring, MartinR.
Its at a popular place.




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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6639 on: May 14, 2022, 05:46:40 PM »
That looks like a square oast behind the foreground building with the ventilation turret.  Would we be near Beltring?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6638 on: May 14, 2022, 09:53:32 AM »
Near the River Medway ?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6637 on: May 14, 2022, 06:58:22 AM »
Way off. Head N/W ish about 20 miles or so. :)

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6636 on: May 13, 2022, 08:19:28 PM »
Bethersden Area ?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6635 on: May 13, 2022, 07:22:06 PM »
Thanks johnfilmer I trawled up and down the Medway for ages until you said downstream from Wateringbury.
Try this one next.
Where would you have been to spot this roofline.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6634 on: May 13, 2022, 06:32:28 PM »
The photo rang a bell as soon as I saw it.  The penny dropped but I decided to hold fire, as I've put a few up lately.  I went over the bridge a number of times in the late 60s while repairing Imperial Automatic Washing Machines on a freelance basis.  I covered Kent, South London, and Sussex in my minivan.
Later, I crossed the bridge to support our daughter who was doing a charity bungee jump outside the Bull Inn pub at the top of the hill.  Later, I crossed it again to attend a nephew's baptism in the Parish Church at the top of the hill.  I don't remember noticing the row of huts though.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6633 on: May 13, 2022, 04:04:44 PM »
That’s the place Grandarog. I used to use this route into work at our shop in Tonbridge Road if the M20 was a problem, so spent many a happy while in the queue waiting for either the level crossing or a timid driver to grow a pair and get on the bridge before the next wave came the other way.


A friend lived on an old Broads cruiser just along the towpath on the other side of the bridge in the early 70s and we climbed the hill to the pub at the top on a “few” occasions.


I was slightly worried that it would become the Two Johnnies Show for a while. How many candles?


Over to you Grandarog.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6632 on: May 13, 2022, 02:56:34 PM »
Well done Grandarog.  GSV gives John Filmer's view exactly.  Camera at:
  • WGS84:    51°15'14"N, 000°29'04"E or 51.25398,0.484486
  • Nat'l Grid: TQ 73471 53466
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6631 on: May 13, 2022, 02:03:04 PM »
Left side of track leading from Station Road to the Boatyard at East Farleigh.


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6630 on: May 13, 2022, 01:31:05 PM »
Downstream from there Diapason.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6629 on: May 13, 2022, 12:16:43 PM »
Wateringbury?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6628 on: May 12, 2022, 10:29:10 AM »
It is by the Medway. All downhill from here...
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6627 on: May 12, 2022, 08:41:47 AM »
Somewhere along the Medway?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6626 on: May 12, 2022, 07:46:38 AM »
Busy boatyard at end of track past the huts.


Not Sevenoaks or Gravesend.
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