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Offline grandarog

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6781 on: June 14, 2022, 09:18:26 PM »
Wow ,Thanks I didn't expect that. I new there was a loop line at Lenham nothing else to connect to your pic.
Next one .Here's a view but where.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6780 on: June 14, 2022, 08:11:53 PM »
I am plumping for Lenham Station. Probably wrong but it is a guess. :)


And a damn good guess it is. :D 
The goods shed was used by Morrell Cherries Ltd and a meat company.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6779 on: June 14, 2022, 07:07:53 PM »
I am plumping for Lenham Station. Probably wrong but it is a guess. :)

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6778 on: June 14, 2022, 05:02:21 PM »
Not the line from Victoria that passes through the Medway towns, Try a different London Station. Shoot999

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6777 on: June 14, 2022, 04:14:01 PM »
Victoria to Dover line?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6776 on: June 14, 2022, 03:58:04 PM »
Close to two rail lines, a motorway and an 'A' road.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6775 on: June 13, 2022, 09:52:14 PM »
One of the down sidings served a goods shed that was used by two food companies.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6774 on: June 13, 2022, 07:58:19 PM »
A village station. The village is along a busy 'A' Road.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6773 on: June 13, 2022, 07:56:18 PM »
On the Chatham  to Ramsgate part of the mainline?
Not that line...

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6772 on: June 13, 2022, 07:41:05 PM »
On the Chatham  to Ramsgate part of the mainline?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6771 on: June 13, 2022, 04:39:29 PM »
Still in regular use (mainline?)?
Still in use and a mainline. Used to be sidings both sides. The one in the photo was a siding but was changed to a loop.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6770 on: June 13, 2022, 01:08:27 PM »
Still in regular use (mainline?)?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6769 on: June 13, 2022, 09:10:04 AM »
Thanks JohnFilmer - I never knew about these brickworks before this GTP.  Looks like it is destined for housing now.


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6768 on: June 12, 2022, 08:36:48 PM »
I should have known the stables at Grove End Farm were floored with their Blue hatched bricks.
Bit of info for interest .
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A brickworks next to Pluckley Railway Station was opened in 1879 by the Kent Brick & Tile Company who are listed in Kelly’s 1882 edition with John Porter as manager. The works first produced their bricks in Scotch & Staffordshire kilns, but by the early 1880’s a 14 chamber Hoffman kiln had been built which was capable of holding 350,000 bricks. By 1891 this works was owned by the Pluckley Brick & Tile Co.
The Pluckley Brick & Tile Co. are listed in Kelly’s 1891 & 1903 editions at Pluckley, Ashford with W. J. Moody as secretary & manager. A web article reveals that Pluckley Brick & Tile Co’s. 25 foot deep clay pit contained several types of clay suitable for producing both red & blue bricks. Fireclay was also available to produce low quality fire bricks suitable for lining brick kilns & lime kilns. Pluckley B & T Co. mainly produced red bricks & blue vitrified stable & paver bricks of various patterns. Their blue & brindle bricks were of such unsurpassed quality that they rivalled those made in Staffordshire. Kelly’s 1913 edition records new owners at the works & the entry is Pluckley Clay Works, proprietors, East Kent Contract & Financial Co. Ltd. Pluckley, Ashford. At a later date & up to when this works closed, possibly in the 1970’s/80’s it was owned by Redland.  Photos and info by Martyn Fretwell."
Source https://www.brocross.com/Bricks

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6767 on: June 12, 2022, 08:00:18 PM »
Well done JW, Pluckley it is. Their pavers, or paviours, were dark purple brown colour, often with a diamond grip pattern, and there were drainage ones. They usually had an impressed Pluckley mark.


We had a ruined barn floor of them, which we reused when we lifted and extended the floor into the revised building (24ft x 18ft garage and workshop  ;D ).


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