Guess the Place

[Dave Smith]

DaveTT. Do you know what happened to AEC please? They were really big in the bus world in the 30/40's/50'/60's- works in Southall I believe. But just disappeared!  Sorry everyone, gone off topic!

[John Walker]

All Saints  Birchington?

[John Walker]

Ignore

[AlanTH]

I well remember those days Shoot99. Myself and others were down near the top of Star hill one Sunday afternoon watching the  drivers just stop and some got out of their cars and sat on the wall and where we were we noticed a gap forming in the traffic in front of a truck (lorry to you ) We went over and the driver had fallen asleep. Woke with a start when we banged on the door.
Couldn't blame him as there could be a long wait getting down the hill and through the high street and out through Strood. What a difference the M2 made.
AlanTH.

[CAT]

Many thanks DaveTheTrain

Its a route out of Canterbury I've taken many times. The George is meant to be a very good place to eat, but have yet to get there.

Here's my next, but where is this sleepy scene?

[pete.mason]

Seeing the picture with all the charabancs reminds me of the A2 through Sittingbourne back before the M2 .Sunday evenings there would be streams of the old Red London Transport double Deckers coming back from Margate with full loads of London families on board . Used to watch them from the balcony and wave as they struggled up Snipes Hill some with steam blowing out of the bonnets.

And Strood, Rochester & Chatham gridlocked from Strood Hill back

[DaveTheTrain]

What a great pic, simpler times.  Anyone want to play a side game of name-that-vehicle?  I am pretty certain, that the coach is an AEC Regal.

[shoot999]

A summer evening at Jacksons field watching the traffic return. Half the kids from Troy Town would be sent up there on a Sunday evening with some sandwiches for their tea.

[grandarog]

Seeing the picture with all the charabancs reminds me of the A2 through Sittingbourne back before the M2 .Sunday evenings there would be streams of the old Red London Transport double Deckers coming back from Margate with full loads of London families on board . Used to watch them from the balcony and wave as they struggled up Snipes Hill some with steam blowing out of the bonnets.

[DaveTheTrain]

CAT has it,   The George Inn, Molash on the A252.  Which was the other principal route to Canterbury, and then on to Margate taking the A20, A252, A28 route.   
The pub had a little tin-shed shop in the car park that sold flowers and fruit.  It was managed by a local chap who paid rent to the pub.   The shed gets mentioned in Edward Hyams local book "From the Waste Land" which charts his life as a cottager/market-gardener just after the second war.  The shed is still there and used for storage.

CAT must have a very similar route to mine to know these places.


Over to you.
DTT

[CAT]

Sorry, Molash, not Challock

[CAT]

Outside the George Inn, Challock?

[DaveTheTrain]

Absolutely John (and all the more, the stop at the pub).   But they are not heading home,   they are facing their destination. 
It is not the A2.


I would add, the scene is unchanged to-day except the lean-to on the pub has become a single storey flat roof extension.

[John Walker]

Firstly - what a superb photo.  The excitement of a day trip to the seaside and the stop at a pub on the way home.


Along the A2 ?

[DaveTheTrain]

Not the Roman Galley, Alec.
DTT