Guess the Place

[KeithG]

Part of a Steam/Brick Kiln in Chatham Dockyard?

[MartinR]

No John, definitely looking down.  Mike -  not in Brompton Barracks, but within walking distance.

[Mike Gunnill]

Brompton Barracks?

[John Walker]

Looking up rather than down?  Martello Tower?

[MartinR]

Nor yet a railway tunnel vent.

[John Walker]

A Railway tunnel vent ?

[MartinR]

No no no, yesNo
It's not a well and it's not in Deal.

[grandarog]

Well well well a hole in the ground.
 Is that looking down the one in Deal Castle?

[MartinR]

This might go quickly, we have some experts on the forum, or else it will cause a bit of head scratching.  Clue tomorrow morning if no-one asks questions or gets it.

[John Walker]

That's the place MartinR  .  The house was lost in the blitz.  A modern building replaced it.   In the 60s/70s it was an art shop with a technical division on the first floor where blueprints were produced for local companies.  It's now a charity shop.  The plaque is next to the shop door.

The big Wetherspoon pub opposite is named after Thomas Ingoldsby.

Richard Harris Barham was born in Canterbury. When he was seven years old his father died, leaving him a small estate, part of which was the manor of Tappington, in Denton, Kent, mentioned so frequently in his later publication The Ingoldsby Legends


Over to you MartinR

[MartinR]

Cancer Research Shop, 61, Burgate, Canterbury.  Birthplace of Richard Barham, pen name Thomas Ingoldsby.

[MartinR]

Is the building where his birthplace was where his home "roughly midway between Folkestone and Canterbury" was, or are you laying a red herring for us?

[John Walker]

Not Austen, Bates or Thackeray


One of his homes was roughly midway between Folkestone and Canterbury.


The plaque is on the building that now stands where his birthplace was.

[KeithG]

Edward Austen?

[Diapason]

H. E. Bates, Canterbury?