Guess the Place

[CAT]

Not Chilham John Walker, a bit further west with this one.

[John Walker]

Quick stab in the dark.  Chilham Church?

[CAT]

Many thanks Local Hiker.

This is a place I have visited numerous times and often wondered about the circular building, though the lighthouses of Dungeness are a series of 'low-lights' and high-lights ranging from at least the early 1600's. From what I have gathered, it is the present lighthouse that dates from 1904 with the circular building adjacent being created in the 1860's from the two lower storeys of buildings that originally encircled the earlier 1792 lighthouse. Following the removal of the earlier lighthouse an open circular courtyard was formed in the buildings centre, which was subsequently capped by a glazed roof.

Here is my next offering, but who and where are this illustrious couple buried?

 

[Local Hiker]

[CAT]

[Local Hiker]

Thank you CAT, and thank you John Walker for the clue.
That required some detective work to resolve.


I am running out of GTP photos. I need to get out with the camera more.
I took this in the summer of 2017.

[CAT]

[Local Hiker]

Bifrons House.
Bifrons, or Janus Bifrons, the two-faced god of the Romans, one of the earliest gods of the Roman pantheon. He was the gatekeeper who looked both ways and was the god of beginnings and endings, and of special significance to soldiers.

https://willturnstone.wordpress.com/tag/bifrons-house/

[John Walker]

I drove past this location recently but I'll hold fire to give other members a chance to join in.

[CAT]

Many thanks John Walker

Apologies for the delay, but work really gets in the way of pleasure sometimes.


As with us all, you can't get enough of a good thing so a quick transfer from the old KHF to here was a must.


My offering is obviously a large country house, sadly no longer standing, but where was it, what's its name and how did it get its name?

[John Walker]

I didn't know you were on here CAT - I would have guessed you would get this one  .


Yes - it's Woods Hardware shop in Dover Street.  You could buy anything thing from peashooters and bags of peas to bunches of fresh mint and sink plugs.  There was a superb display devoted to Woods Shop in Canterbury Museum, Stour Street.  I wonder where all the excellent exhibits are now.  Even the Rupert Bear and Bagpuss displays have been chucked in a single glass case in the Beaney Museum.  Very disappointing 
Over to you CAT

[CAT]

Dover Street, Canterbury? I just remember the hardware shop.

[John Walker]

Time for a clue - my usual hunting ground 

[John Walker]

Thanks Local Hiker.  That looks a great place for a visit.  Not too far from the train station either.


Next one ...   The building still exists.

[Local Hiker]

John Walker, that is correct. The chalk processing factory remains in my photos are to the north of the quarry site.
The quarry south of the B2004 Lower Rainham Road, and the site of the cement works (long cleaed) to the north of the road, including the remains of Rainham Dock on the Medway, are a really interesting walk.


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