Guess the Place

[Invicta Alec]

Dunno where it is, but what a fabulous photo!


Alec.

[DaveTheTrain]

Thanks Keith.  Ah, I can see the arrangement of the road now.   What a cracking photo.


Here is mine.  The view is very similar today.  The row of cottages have gone, but everything else remains pretty much the same.

[KeithG]

You are correct shoot999 as i used the other photo looking up Old Road on the old forum as a guess the place.

[shoot999]

Thought I recognised the pub and the street, as I have a pic taken of the houses from a different angle. Then thought no, whats the chances of two pics floating around of a back street from the same period?     I see if I can find it.

[KeithG]

Although i didn't ask for the pubs name or even a pub you did get it correct so i will give the guess to you as you now know the area.
You don't have the geography correct though as this is Old Road which is behind the main A2 and runs roughly parallel to it.


The reason learners used the small car park was because the Chatham Driving Test Centre was around the corner on the main road..... I used this in 1966 when visiting for my car test.
The camera is where the red marker is and you can see the pub on the main road at the junction of Old Road.

By the way the building on it's own opposite on the main road was the Lord Duncan pub

Over to you

[DaveTheTrain]

Got it.  Its the Ropemakers Arms on the Main A2 as you come into New Road.  The buildings in the foreground are where the Grahams Office Furniture Shop now is.


I had confused it with the Halfway on Magpie Hall Road, which has a similar corner detail.

[KeithG]

DaveTheTrain..... You noticed the pub which was a very well known one in its great day's, not a pub now!


But it is not Constitution Road.


The buildings were demolished and a small car park used to be in their place and mainly used by learner drivers??

[DaveTheTrain]

I think the main road is Chatham Hill, and this is Constitution Road, but I cannot place the pub. 

[KeithG]

There is a main A road nearby.

[KeithG]

Yes,  Medway Towns 1962

[johnfilmer]

Medway area?

[KeithG]

Thanks John Walker......


Living in Dover and also Folkestone in the past i go past that church quite regularly.


Next Picture:


Where do you think this is?

[johnfilmer]

MartinR's info on the church raises a point that I have wondered about before. The very nature of Guess the Place often means that we learn more about our chosen targets. At what point should we then take this info and start a thread in the appropriate part of the forum?
I will post about the Herne Bay home when I can resolve a couple of points with my siblings, and better gauge the date. The strange Memorial Hall on Benenden Green is another possible subject
Views/comments?

[MartinR]

Here's what I've found.  It is the former Radnor Park URC church which was sold to SKCC prior to January 2018 (ie probably completion in autumn 2017), see the press release below.  The URC was formed by the merger of the Presbyterian Church and the Congregational Church in 1972, so the church was originally Radnor Park Congregational Church.  It was built in 1896 and opened the following year.  See page 3 of the F&DHLS newsletter linked below.  There is a memorial to 7 men lost and 47 who served in WWI, see the memorial link below.  As regards the bells, although it looks like there should be a ring, very few Free Churches actually installed bells in what ought to be the bell chamber.  Radnor Park URC just had the clock bell (6cwt, 2qtrs and 10lb) and 4 quarter hour bells.

Links:

• Press release: http://www.skcc.info/pressrelease
• F&DHLS newsletter http://www.folkestonehistory.org/uploads/F&DLHS%20Newsletter%20No.%2068%20-%20Autumn%202016%20Final%20Proof.pdf
• F&DHLS memorial https://www.folkestonehistory.org/index.php?page=united-reform-church-radnor-park-folkestone

[John Walker]

MartinR  When I saw your question it made me think that perhaps there was another Folkestone in the Kent area that I didn't know about.


KeithG has the correct location South Kent Community Church.  I can't find any info regarding bells.   It's a very large building and appears quite unusual regarding the local community and Worship.

http://www.skcc.info/


Over to you Keith.