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Offline johnfilmer

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3595 on: January 10, 2021, 11:29:47 AM »
Spot on Pete.


The old white weatherboarded steam mill is quite prominent. The whole site occupies the corner of Claxfield Lane, Berkeley House being a care home for disabled adults.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3594 on: January 10, 2021, 11:01:29 AM »
Champions mill Lynsted?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3593 on: January 10, 2021, 09:32:14 AM »
Not Tonge either.


You might say that this mill was a winner...
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3592 on: January 10, 2021, 08:50:53 AM »
Tonge Mill?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3591 on: January 10, 2021, 08:35:57 AM »
I’ve only seen a couple of fairly distant photos of the complete mill, but I would suggest that the castellations were added to decorate the base, to make it into more of a feature or folly when the rest of the tower was removed. One reference said that it was gone by 1930.


The steam mill still stands, although without its chimney. At three stories tall and close to the road it’s a bit more obvious.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3590 on: January 10, 2021, 12:06:28 AM »
Was the base castellated when it was still a windmill?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3589 on: January 09, 2021, 04:40:32 PM »
Neither Tunstall or Sharsted.

The tower's remains are still used (not as a mill) and the building that housed its steam driven replacement still stands - just out of shot in the photo.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3588 on: January 09, 2021, 04:08:01 PM »
Tunstall ?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3587 on: January 09, 2021, 03:55:04 PM »
Sharsted?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3586 on: January 09, 2021, 07:41:24 AM »
Postal address is probably Sittingbourne, but that’s a wider area than the town and its immediate environs. Certainly Swale.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3585 on: January 08, 2021, 11:45:09 PM »
Sittingbourne area ?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3584 on: January 08, 2021, 05:02:53 PM »
South of A2 and north of M2.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3583 on: January 08, 2021, 10:15:15 AM »
It was amazing how many visually similar organs there are in small outlying churches.
Now where is this stump of a windmill? It is on GSV for the keen eyed.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3582 on: January 08, 2021, 08:43:07 AM »
Well done John, not an easy one!


The little organ was initially built as a barrel organ in 1870 and resided in Buckingham Palace, as it was the personal property of the Prince Consort. Following the death of the Prince, it was installed in Chipping Norton Baptist Church and in 1997 removed to St. Margaret`s, Hucking. On my last visit to the church, a few years ago, it was still playable and maintained. At some point in its`life` it was rebuilt as a `finger` organ with a key and pedal board and electrically `blown`like many other organs of the same era, another local example being in St. Bartholomew`s, Bobbing (built in 1845).

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3581 on: January 07, 2021, 06:24:01 PM »
How about Hucking again, and no that’s not rhyming slang  ::)
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