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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #502 on: December 22, 2019, 01:22:47 PM »
Looks like a sewage treatment plant ?  Crossness Pumping Station?
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Offline stuartwaters

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #501 on: December 22, 2019, 01:01:30 PM »
Not Motney Hill Keith. This particular piece of equipment is obsolete and disused now, but the place it was part of serves the same purpose though.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #500 on: December 22, 2019, 10:24:06 AM »
Motney Hill?
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Offline stuartwaters

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #499 on: December 22, 2019, 09:30:14 AM »
Okay thank you. Righto, what and where is this?

A little clue to start with - ME postcode area
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #498 on: December 21, 2019, 10:37:49 PM »
Quote from: John Walker on December 21, 2019, 10:30:42 PM
Anyone else noticed the lad on the roof leaning against the chimney ?  Top left.


Not until you mentioned it.  Reminds me of the old cartoon in the newspapers where you had to find the hidden element.
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #497 on: December 21, 2019, 10:30:42 PM »
Anyone else noticed the lad on the roof leaning against the chimney ?  Top left.
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Offline castle261

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #496 on: December 21, 2019, 07:22:24 PM »
My sister worked for the Styles -- They had a house in Boxley -- after the bottom of Boxley Hill.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #495 on: December 21, 2019, 05:02:18 PM »
Stuartwaters you are exactly right


I actually remember having to use the old Wood Street route travelling on buses in the mid 50's


The new '60's route a great improvement


Over to you
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Offline stuartwaters

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #494 on: December 21, 2019, 01:37:45 PM »
At last, one I've managed to find. This is a picture dating from the early 1930s of The Swan, or The Old Swan at 1 Wood Street, Brompton. The photo was taken after 1929, when the Maidstone-based Style and Winch was bought out by Barclay, Perkins and Co.


It was demolished to make room for the roundabout at the junction of Wood Street and Dock Road?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #493 on: December 21, 2019, 12:43:29 PM »
Thanks shoot999......that being around my area i knew the scene well as coming down the hill towards it was the route from my Aunts.


Next is a picture of a now demolished pub which was included to make way for a very large road improvement scheme.
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Offline shoot999

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #492 on: December 20, 2019, 05:58:47 PM »
Well done KeithG. Also described as the guardhouse to Fort Clarence. Opposite the old Girls Grammar School and adjacent to the Alms Houses. We lived almost opposite in Morden street. Used to play in there as a kid in the late 50s, early 60s as the  wall was so easy to get over. Use the railings to get up on the ledge, lay across the plinth, spin yourself round, and down the other side.  :)


Unfortunately a couple of kids got injured; I believe a fatality or two; and it was demolished in the mid 60s.


Surprisingly most of the view apart from the guardhouse is still the same.


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KeithG

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #491 on: December 20, 2019, 05:39:30 PM »
It was part of the Block House at Fort Clarence on the Maidstone Road Rochester
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Offline shoot999

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #490 on: December 20, 2019, 05:17:31 PM »
Yes that's the location.  Part of the wall is all that remains. (Not that the wall and railings ever kept us out!)

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #489 on: December 20, 2019, 04:41:11 PM »
Was it where this new house is?

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Offline shoot999

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #488 on: December 20, 2019, 02:35:03 PM »
And the next. This has been well documented so no clues.
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