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Offline johnfilmer

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5042 on: August 07, 2021, 11:43:25 AM »
Probably still Watling Street in 1908, MartinR.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5041 on: August 07, 2021, 11:37:51 AM »

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5040 on: August 07, 2021, 11:28:54 AM »
Would the road be the A2?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5039 on: August 07, 2021, 11:02:07 AM »
Thanks JW, the search would have been quicker but the church didn't display its name on GSV satellite.
Sticking with map clues, where is this in 1908?

The brickworks later migrated over the road to where the gravel pit is shown, and after closure (in late 60s?) has evolved into an Industrial Estate.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5038 on: August 06, 2021, 09:10:43 PM »
Well done and over to you JohnFilmer and sorry you just missed it Grandarog.  The church also looks to be worth a visit.


Brook is in a gently rolling valley top immediately south of the North Downs. The brook referred to rises here and flows east to join the combined East and West Stour, that is, the River Great Stour. The south-east fifth of the parish is woodland. Brook has a small village museum. The human population of this area rose by 3 during the 10 years to the United Kingdom Census 2011. The 11th century Grade I listed parish church is dedicated to St Mary.  There is also a Baptist chapel. The church of St. Mary, erected about 1075, is of stone, in the Early Norman style, and has a tower containing 3 bells: the tower was struck by lightning in 1896, and the northwest corner destroyed but was restored in 1899: there are 160 sittings. John Betjeman described the church as "unaltered early Norman church ... a massive church which carries its longevity more convincingly than many older and tidier churches"

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5037 on: August 06, 2021, 08:46:51 PM »
Beat me to it.  :)

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5036 on: August 06, 2021, 07:29:31 PM »
Brook Agricultural Museum, The Street, Brook near Ashford.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5035 on: August 06, 2021, 03:53:28 PM »
The name of a discontinued TV Soap might help.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5034 on: August 06, 2021, 12:55:04 PM »
Not there Grandarog.   Wrong town. 

Close to a steep-sided dry valley with a fine view.  A Norman church is to the left of the photo.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5033 on: August 06, 2021, 10:12:58 AM »
Is the Nature reserve Stodmarsh ??

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5032 on: August 05, 2021, 10:12:46 PM »
Rural but not far from a large town.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5031 on: August 05, 2021, 02:19:39 PM »
As rural as it appears. 1km from a National Nature Reserve.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5030 on: August 05, 2021, 12:09:10 PM »
Thanks Pete,


I don't think I would have found it without your clue. 


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5029 on: August 04, 2021, 10:34:00 PM »
All yours JW

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5028 on: August 04, 2021, 09:15:36 PM »
I feel a bit stupid (that’s even more than usual!) as I’m fairly sure that I did a survey there, poss about 2000 or so.


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