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Offline Diapason

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4870 on: July 08, 2021, 02:40:34 PM »
First guess -  Close to Charing Church.


More likely to be within or close to the Precincts of Canterbury Cathedral.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4869 on: July 08, 2021, 10:49:38 AM »
Next one ...

Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4868 on: July 08, 2021, 10:11:03 AM »
Yes it is indeed John Walker, the entrances to a short tunnel in Chatham Hill.
From various threads and blogs that I have read it is reputedly one of the entrances to the legendary Medway tunnel network that links everywhere to everywhere else!
Looks to be some sort of council store and my son noticed the doors open when he was coming home from work earlier in the year.


Thanks Stewie,  I was lucky there but for some reason, it woke up a memory from some time back but I wasn't certain.


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pete.mason

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4867 on: July 08, 2021, 08:32:57 AM »
I recall this being talked about elsewhere. It was a store/cellar for one of the terrace houses that were there, one of several I believe

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4866 on: July 08, 2021, 07:59:56 AM »
I cant open your link on my hone MartnR but it sounds like the right one just up from the Luton Arches

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4865 on: July 08, 2021, 06:47:11 AM »

Offline Stewie

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4864 on: July 08, 2021, 06:21:56 AM »
Yes it is indeed John Walker, the entrances to a short tunnel in Chatham Hill.
From various threads and blogs that I have read it is reputedly one of the entrances to the legendary Medway tunnel network that links everywhere to everywhere else!
Looks to be some sort of council store and my son noticed the doors open when he was coming home from work earlier in the year.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4863 on: July 08, 2021, 12:31:00 AM »
Chatham Hill, Chatham?

Offline Stewie

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4862 on: July 07, 2021, 09:12:46 PM »
Thanks Pete.
One of my occasional forays into the GTP pages, I was going to post something easy but found this one on my laptop to tempt you with. Taken by my son and Visible on GSV.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4861 on: July 07, 2021, 07:50:06 PM »
Spot on Stewie I did the beer & soft drinks instal. Early December, & freezing cold It was briefly the Snooty Fox but there was a pub in London of that name owned by someone with powerful friends (or husband), Legal action was threatened and the name was changed. The area manager forgot to apply for a licence and the pub was opened on occasional licences from , I think, the Poachers Pocket to enable it to trade up to and over Xmas. The same area manager had had the idea of creating a bar for children and this was at the end of the main bar fronting into the kid's play area. We set it up with draught soft drinks, just finished when the Licencing committee arrived for an inspection and pointed out that it was illegal for alcoholic drinks to be served in the sight of children. Soft drinks hastily removed and a partition was put up. The name apparently was for a fox that used to sit on the roadside nearby watching the traffic and locally called the Snooty Fox . Which all goes to prove even brewers can't organise one in a brewery

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4860 on: July 07, 2021, 05:46:09 PM »
The 'Hungry Fox' near the Savacentre ay Hempstead Valley. Formerly the 'Snooty Fox'.

pete.mason

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4859 on: July 07, 2021, 04:59:25 PM »
 ;D ;D  Pub !!

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4858 on: July 07, 2021, 04:44:24 PM »
Crematorium?

pete.mason

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4857 on: July 07, 2021, 02:46:58 PM »
Thought I recognised it straight away, think I froze my bits off installing the beer & soft drinks while is being converted





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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4856 on: July 07, 2021, 02:27:43 PM »
It is now, or was recently but in the picture was the Gas Showroom, junction of Maidstone Road and Watling Street, Rainham.


I have distinct memories of sitting on the wall waiting for the Pilchers coach to pick up our family for a trip to London on more than one occasion. That was mid fifties, we lived just up Maidstone Road, but left in April 1958.


Over to you Pete.
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