Guess the Place

[KeithG]

Moving on:


What is this and where might it be around  1920


To kick off with clues the advertising albeit in a different form is still there today?

[pete.mason]

Nothing to do with GTP but the photo reminded me, What became of the Dickens experience or whatever it was called? I know it went bust but what then?

[MartinR]

Sorry John, not Whitstable.  Keith has got it though: "A section of Chatham High Street that escaped the fires of both 1800 and 1820.  This early 20th-century photograph reveals the combustible nature of the buildings that once fronted the High Street."

[KeithG]

Chatham High St. by Full Of Love Alley

[John Walker]

Getting back to your GTP MartinR    - Quick guess - Whitstable High Street?

[MartinR]

That makes more sense.  I couldn't see why they'd be heading off up St Martin's Hill/A257.

[John Walker]

I believe this route was taken to include St Augustine's Abbey and St Martins Church (both marked green) at the start of the pilgrimage.

The red line on the map is the current pilgrimage route but I'm certain I've seen the original route as that I've shown in blue.

[MartinR]

I'm sure I'd been there virtually yesterday, younger son is at CCC and the area is certainly historic.  Following today's clues I've been virtually up and down both Dover Roads.  Why would Spanish pilgrims go this way and not straight to Dover?

I've also been checking up on traction systems.  As far as I can tell Canterbury has never had either a tram or a trolley bus system, so the switch must be for lights.  I'm sure I've seen the timer box attached to walls when the lights are mounted on properties that front the road.  The big box is probably a relay to switch all three phases and regulate a larger area.  I won't suggest opening the box to find out though!

Now here's the next one.  I doubt that this will last long but let's see.

[John Walker]

That's it MartinR.  .    Along the route of pilgrimages from Canterbury Cathedral to Italy and Spain.


I walked past that 1000s of time as a nipper/teenager and never gave it a thought.



I'm fairly sure it's to do with street lighting.  If nobody comes up with the answer on this thread, I'll put it on it's own thread.


So over to you ...

[MartinR]

41 Longport.  At the bottom of St. Martin's Hill, hard by the junction with the top of North Holmes Rd.

[John Walker]

you will pass here if you are on either of these pilgimages ...
Via Francigena to Rome or Camino de Santiago to Santiago de Compostela


(I'm hoping a member will be able to confirm the objects use)

[John Walker]

On a main route out of the city.

[John Walker]

Close to City Centre - not far outside city walls.  an area with lots of history.......

[MartinR]

I didn't know where you lived John.  We all have difficulty getting out these days, I only leave the house for people to stick needles into me!
Canterbury central (within the ringroad) or suburbs?

[John Walker]

Where else ?   


I don't have a car so difficult getting out of town these days.