Guess the Place

[grandarog]

It might have been this John.


https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205201825
 
 
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205201828

[John Walker]

Thanks Beachbum.  I recall reading about somewhere in or near Dreamland being requisitioned as a reception centre for soldiers returning from the war.  I can't find it now


Next one - where and what?

[MartinR]

Best coordinates I can get are:

• WGS84:     51°23'11"N, 001°22'30"E or 51.3863771,1.3749312
• Post code: CT9 1XP or 1XN
• Grid ref:     TR 34918 70664

It must have been quite a ballroom.  At that length you'd only get half way around before the music stopped.  Great for quicksteps! 

[Beachbum]

You are at the right spot JW.
So this was a former Station of the South Eastern Railway (1846) known as the Margate Sands Station. It is adjacent to the Dreamland Cinema and opposite the Main Beach.It became the MCC Casino Ballroom and then a Restaurant.
Over to you John Walker.............

[John Walker]

Anything to do with the Dreamland site.  I seem to recall there being a hall that could feed over 1000 during one of the wars.  Might have been a railway station?

[Beachbum]

It had connections to Ashford.............

[grandarog]

Not far from last place, I will wait a while give others a chance.

[Beachbum]

Thanks JW, I was born there (no blue plaque yet).
Okay folks, try this one..........

[John Walker]

You have it Beachbum.  The Ramsgate General Hospital, now residential.    I wondered if you would get it first.  Guessing you have connections with the area.

51.33071203433421, 1.410873221349325


Over to you ...

[Beachbum]

The former Ramsgate Hospital?

[John Walker]

Deal?  Or Kingsdown?

Sorry if I've misled you MartinR,  My clues were generalising rather than specific.  Grandarog is very close but wrong town.

[John Walker]

Broadstairs ?  Cant go much farther East with dry feet.

Adjoining town Grandrog.

[MartinR]

Deal?  Or Kingsdown?

[grandarog]

Broadstairs ?  Cant go much farther East with dry feet.

[John Walker]

How precisely East (remember I'm a sailor and tend to think of bearings fairly precisely)?  As far as Dover?

Almost as easterly as you can go in Kent