Guess the Place

[KeithG]

Yes.... You have that CAT.


Margate Pier in 1918


Over to you...

[CAT]

Margate?

[MartinR]

Gravesend?

[KeithG]

Kent being very coastal what Pier is this picture?

[KeithG]

Thanks smiffy:

Was one of my childhood play areas... Use to pick blackberries for my Mum and Dad opposite the top of the High Street in Tank Field about 1959.


I'll be back later today ..........

[Smiffy]

That didn't take long!


Over to you...

[KeithG]

Upper Upnor High Street?

[Smiffy]

I've seen those pictures before and I'm still unsure if they date from the 19th century, or if they belong to some kind of later reenactment. I believe Holcombe itself dates from the 1890's.


The view seen in this photo isn't a million miles from what you'd see now...

[shoot999]

I went to school here. Its Holcombe - was Chatham Tech, now a Grammar school.

Same here, I was there 62-66   A recent Head Boy was putting something together on the history of the place; and had a number of pics of the place from different viewpoints. This was one of them. This view is surrounded by new builds now.


Over to you Smiffy.

[Smiffy]

I went to school here. Its Holcombe - was Chatham Tech, now a Grammar school.

[shoot999]

Originally surrounded by woodland and a lake. Now part of an urban sprawl.

[shoot999]

is that an early domed observatory on top of the tower behind?

Not sure CAT. It was originally a private house.

[CAT]

is that an early domed observatory on top of the tower behind?

[shoot999]

Coastal ?

Not coastal John.

[John Walker]

Coastal ?