Guess the Place

[johnfilmer]

Found it, I think… 

If so, Mr Google reckons it to be WW2 from the caption.

[John Walker]

Anything to do with the explosives industry around Faversham?

Not there - head east.

[johnfilmer]

Anything to do with the explosives industry around Faversham?

[John Walker]

WW1

[John Walker]

Thanks JohnFilmer for the info and MartinR for the coordinates.

Next one ....

(I don't think we've had this before)

[MartinR]

The fireworks factory is at Kingsdown, Sittingbourne and not at Kingsdown Walmer!  Both have Kingsdown Roads associated with them.  The location is:

• Nat Grid:                   TQ 92707 59319
• Nearest Post Code:   ME9 0QX
• Co-ords (WGS84):     51°18'01"N,000°45'47"E or  51.30037,0.76295

The house with the postbox is at:

• Address:                   46 The Street, Newnham
• Nat Grid:                   TQ 95433 57670
• Nearest Post Code:   ME9 0LL
• Co-ords (WGS84):     51°17'05"N,000°48'04"E or 51.28463,0.80110

Using GSV the green postbox looks like EIIR  I think the red post box outside number 49 is a late model, so will also be EIIR, but GSV is too indistinct to be sure.  The fact the the one outside number 46 is green, and also has the slot blocked off may mean that it was bought as a private delivery box and installed by previous owners of the property.

[johnfilmer]

It is indeed Newnham, JW.

The George is presently closed as despite excellent food and well kept Sheps, the previous tenant couple were simply losing money in the present climate and chose to leave.

I had a look at some old OS maps on NLS and curiously an 1870s shows the Post Office further away from both the obvious sites. One of the old photos on the Dover pubs site, says undated but the boy and bike look the same as in another dated to 1905, and the green postbox is not there. Next time I must stop and read the royal cypher on both. Might get some strange looks 

[John Walker]

Newnham, next to the George Inn.   I had something in the back of my mind that I'd seen it while searching for an earlier GTP, so took a guess at the Doddigton area.

[johnfilmer]

You are close JW.

I try and stick with places that I know, alternatively you may say that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree 

[John Walker]

Doddington Area ?

[johnfilmer]

Resurrecting a previous theme, this green post box suggestes that this was the Post Office. However, there is another post box in this village, not far away, outside what was clearly a shop in the past.

I will do some digging about, meantime, where are we?

[johnfilmer]

Your vector clue was only a couple of miles short of going right over my house!

Then I kickstarted the brain cell and remembered that an acquaintance worked making fireworks around there. He is friends with someone there and did a couple of months between being made redundant after 20+yrs, and then rehired by the new owners. They are a bit busy now, they make military optical equipment.

I’ll get back to my lap top later on.

[grandarog]

Johnfilmer you have it, over to you.
Kingsdown Light Anti Aircraft Battery. I believe 4 x 3.7 inch guns.
Google Earth image below from 1960 is how I remember it.
 Some of us kids biked up there to watch the Army taking out the Guns around the   Coronation time. It is now an industrial site of a Firework Factory.There were also 2 guns at the edge of Minching Wood by the road side facing East.They were still there for a few more years. I believe the Cubs or Scouts did a eat a meal in an unusual place Challenge in the underground Ammo Store there quite a few years ago. Dont know if it is still accessibly or has been filled in.

[johnfilmer]

I think that it’s at Kingsdown, near the junction of Kingsdown Road and Dully Lane.

Possibly an AA battery position originally.

[grandarog]

No. You need to go South East from Centre of the peninsular roughly 30 k out into the countryside.