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Offline grandarog

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6194 on: March 02, 2022, 06:23:43 PM »
It was the Village Post Office. Selling other goods as well like a Village shop.



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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6193 on: March 02, 2022, 05:05:36 PM »
   Was it a pub or a shop



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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6192 on: March 02, 2022, 01:51:05 PM »
It is in one of the Villages within 5 to 6 Kms from faversham. :)

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6191 on: March 02, 2022, 01:18:09 PM »
Faversham ?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6190 on: March 02, 2022, 09:24:04 AM »
Oh yes, much modernised and updated as private residences.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6189 on: March 01, 2022, 11:08:39 PM »
Does it still exist ?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6188 on: March 01, 2022, 11:05:21 PM »
Quote from: grandarog on March 01, 2022, 08:33:23 PM
Not Chiddingstone ,that's miles away from ME13


Whoops!   I missed that clue - was using my mobile.    ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6187 on: March 01, 2022, 08:33:23 PM »
Not Chiddingstone ,that's miles away from ME13
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6186 on: March 01, 2022, 12:41:21 PM »
Quick guess - Chiddingstone ?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6185 on: March 01, 2022, 11:25:28 AM »
Sorry for delay.
                 Here,s another cropped view from one of my old Postcards.


                               1st Clue ME13 Postcode area.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6184 on: February 28, 2022, 12:59:20 PM »
You have it grandarog, it is indeed Queenborough High Street looking west.


Current similar view, though with the church shrouded by a large Horse-Chestnut tree.


Over to you grandagog
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6183 on: February 28, 2022, 11:23:22 AM »
The church tower shows some significant changes from the drawing.  The stumpy spire has now gone and the turret in the south-east corner now reaches above the main roof to give access onto the roof.  The bells (which I've rung in a striking competition) date from 1667 with a new treble from 1911.  The tenor has been recast several times (1722, 1911 and 1933).  The church was burnt out in 1719 and had another serious fire in 1933.  The church has an "outstanding survival of a late C17 painted ceiling" according to the official listing, and is grade II*.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6182 on: February 28, 2022, 10:48:42 AM »
Victorian view of Queenborough High Street on the Isle of Sheppey.


Street View of the Guild Hall shown at end of street on the old print.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6181 on: February 28, 2022, 10:27:41 AM »
Recognised it straight away... Lived around the corner for about a year.
Will hold fire otherwise it becomes the CAT and johnfilmer show ::)
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6180 on: February 28, 2022, 09:01:38 AM »
Sorry for the delay, but lost internet at home for the weekend. A blessing, but a pain also!


Many thanks johnfilmer, a site I know well as I recently undertook a condition survey of the Roman fort walls. Very few people know that Reculver had a village attached with housing both within and without the Roman fort. The only one left now being the King Ethelbert pub. Prior to the erosion of the fort's northern half and erosion of the coastline, the village of Reculver stood to the north of the fort, which goes to show how much has disappeared in the last two hundred years.


here is my next, which could go fairly quickly.
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