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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3669 on: January 18, 2021, 01:31:17 PM »
Thanks Stewie.
DaveTheTrain, well done and over to you.


For the record, the building is Sheerness Pier toll booth and Pier Master's house.
The ramp and steps around it are the access from the road up onto the pier. The black metal railings are the gate onto the pier.
The railway immediately to the west side is the tramway into Sheerness Docks.
Not only is the pier no longer there, neither is the water it straddled, because the sea has been reclaimed as land within Sheerness Docks.
There are more historic (and not historic) photos around the area from my day out here...  https://www.facebook.com/Spilt0Milk/posts/960495491145035

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3668 on: January 18, 2021, 01:30:22 PM »
Thanks Chaps,  that is very generous of you.


I recognised the location of the Bluetown photo as i occasionally visit to collect metal work from a supplier.


Anyway, where is this?  It is on a main road, opposite a pub.  It is no longer a PO.


DTT

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3667 on: January 18, 2021, 01:10:36 PM »
Not a problem, I think after this week I am happy to let some one else have a go! I only said Sheerness because of the 'industrial' background but could not say where it was with out further research!
Happy for Dave the Train to play  :)

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« Reply #3666 on: January 18, 2021, 01:00:09 PM »
Oh, I have a dilemma.
Stewie appears to have had a speculative guess as to what town it is in, without any clarity as to what or where, but DaveThe Train has then been more specific as to exact location afterwards.

Stewie, I am inclined to give DaveTheTrain the call. Did you have any idea as to what or where?




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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3665 on: January 18, 2021, 12:40:23 PM »
I think that is the very sad looking building at the end of West Street, Blue Town.


Whoops, sorry I see Stewie has beaten me to it.  Well done, mate.
DTT

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3664 on: January 18, 2021, 11:36:04 AM »
Sheerness?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3663 on: January 18, 2021, 11:13:31 AM »
There is a disused railway immediately to the right of this building.

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« Reply #3662 on: January 18, 2021, 10:28:01 AM »
Thank you Stewie. I can see Barton Point from my front garden, and I do go to see the trains regularly on Sunday afternoons through the summer, so it was instant recognition of your photo with no research needed on that one.


Next one, I took these photos last year. They are 2 views of the same building.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3661 on: January 18, 2021, 07:48:52 AM »
Yes you have it Local Hiker over to you!  :)

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3660 on: January 18, 2021, 01:43:03 AM »

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3659 on: January 17, 2021, 09:02:16 PM »
Thanks Pete, I remember going in there on my stag night many, many years  ago!


I have actually used this one before on the old forum so someone may remember!


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3658 on: January 17, 2021, 06:30:01 PM »
4 minutes >:( -got to be a record , It is and all yours

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3657 on: January 17, 2021, 05:50:23 PM »
Is it the Jolly Caulkers public house in Batchelor Street Chatham?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3656 on: January 17, 2021, 05:46:51 PM »
Thought it was old PO at first then remembered it when Whitbreads bought is as a Brewer's Fayre or Beefeater. Try this

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3655 on: January 17, 2021, 05:30:53 PM »
Well done Pete you are correct, its  the former Tunbridge Wells West station building but the  Spa Valley railway operate a service from a 'new' station just next door.