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Offline grandarog

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9465 on: January 15, 2024, 02:58:07 PM »
Unfortunately your photo gives the place and location. Try another one.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9464 on: January 15, 2024, 01:40:33 PM »
Thanks Johnfilmer,

Mrs Stewie and myself had a day out last year and a bite off something to eat. So where was we when we were making our menu choices?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9463 on: January 14, 2024, 08:34:54 PM »
I’ve reread the replies now that I’m not eating my dinner at the same time.

The correct answer is Eastchurch Station, which I now acknowledge Stewie as mentioning, so therefore he is the winner.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9462 on: January 14, 2024, 08:20:16 PM »
The map left edge is actually the edge of that map page. The next map page has the structure in 1906….

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9461 on: January 14, 2024, 07:46:28 PM »
Directly to the left is/was HMP Standford Hill and slightly below is the rest of the Sheppey Prisons cluster.  If I'm right, then the location of The White House (now demolished) was at:
  • Nat'l Grid:                  TQ 98717 70313
  • Nearest Post Code:   ME12 4DS
  • Co-ords (WGS84):     51°23'49"N,000°51'19"E or 51.397041, 0.855185

Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9460 on: January 14, 2024, 07:18:53 PM »
All I can find to the left is St Clements Church and what appears to have been a small housing estate called Paradise.?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9459 on: January 14, 2024, 06:54:07 PM »
Stewie is so close… But, the map is based on a survey from 1906, which predates aerodrome .
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9458 on: January 14, 2024, 06:51:44 PM »
Queenborough Pier Branch line ?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9457 on: January 14, 2024, 06:45:42 PM »
Is it the Sheppey Light Railway Eastchurch station? If so to the left would be the old aerodrome.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9456 on: January 14, 2024, 01:31:27 PM »
Not Sharnel Street either Martin

As the choices are limited I’m not giving helpful directions at the moment :-\
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9455 on: January 14, 2024, 12:52:51 PM »
Sharnal Street Station (now demolished) on the Isle of Grain?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9454 on: January 14, 2024, 12:29:06 PM »
Yes JW, only a single track, and the map is correctly aligned.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9453 on: January 14, 2024, 09:43:17 AM »
Single track line?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9452 on: January 14, 2024, 09:33:09 AM »
It is a station, but not that one…
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9451 on: January 13, 2024, 08:12:59 PM »
Kent House Station?