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Offline shoot999

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6281 on: March 15, 2022, 08:43:46 AM »
Rural? Mid Kent?

Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6280 on: March 15, 2022, 08:18:25 AM »
A place with a quirky history.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6279 on: March 14, 2022, 11:15:01 PM »
Thanks Diapason.  It was a lucky guess in the true spirit of GTP.  :)


Next one:   What and where.  This was the view about 12 years ago.  Much tidier now.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6278 on: March 14, 2022, 11:29:19 AM »
I can Confirm johnfilmer's post that there was a Wooden  Wesleyan Chapel on Silver Street. It is now became part of Wesley Cottage.
There was also a the Methodist Chapel shown on Diapersons Guess. which was demolished in the 1980's


The Wooden Chapel is stiil there albeit much Modified as a House.
Planning app last year:-
Wesley Cottage Silver Street Bredgar Sittingbourne Kent ME9 8ES
Listed Building Consent for refurbishment of existing residential chapel building; replacement of existing windows and doors with double glazed timber windows and doors; repair of original sash windows; replacement of original shutters, new internal ground floor partition in cottage, and installation of Solar PV panels to garage roof,

Diapersons photo is of the second Methodist chapel at Bredgar. The first wooden one still stands in Silver Street as part of Wesley Cottage.
[/size]By 1868 funds had been raised to build a large brick chapel a little further up Silver Street, on the opposite side, where there was seating for 200. Faced with red brick it had a steeply pitched roof of Welsh slate.[/color][/size]
Sadly, in 1987, the brick built chapel was sold. The congregation had dwindled to a regular three, May Ingram, Winnie Hadlow and Eve Barton and the building was in poor repair. The last preacher at the chapel was Brian Davis. The chapel was then demolished and dated bricks from it were affixed to a wall inside Sittingbourne Methodist Church. 

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6277 on: March 14, 2022, 07:54:20 AM »
My knowledge of Bredgar in the 60s and early 70s was mainly confined to the interior of The Sun.


However a quick check on nls maps and there is a Methodist Chapel marked on Silver Street.


On GSV there is a footpath sign, adjacent to a very ecclesiastical boundary wall corner. The other side of a newish house is another corner post. Maple Dean.


The footpath is on the 1898 6inch map that shows the Chapel. So you are right, Silver Street it was.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6276 on: March 14, 2022, 07:19:52 AM »
Spot on, JW.


Although I know the [size=78%] [/size]area quite well, I still cannot `pinpoint` the exact location of the church which I believe was on Silver Street. Perhaps Granderog can help?

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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6275 on: March 13, 2022, 07:08:51 PM »
Bredgar ?


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6274 on: March 13, 2022, 04:18:07 PM »
Yes, a Methodist Church, JW


Wrong side of the M2, MartinR.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6273 on: March 13, 2022, 01:20:45 PM »
Iwade?

Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6272 on: March 12, 2022, 10:48:35 PM »
Struggling with this one.  Am I correct in thinking this was a Methodist Church?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6271 on: March 12, 2022, 08:27:23 AM »
ME9 postcode.


I`m uncertain when it was demolished, possibly very much longer than I previously estimated.


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6270 on: March 12, 2022, 07:01:32 AM »
Rural?

Offline Diapason

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6269 on: March 11, 2022, 12:41:43 PM »
Another church that was demolished in favour of housing at least 10 years ago.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6268 on: March 11, 2022, 11:49:03 AM »
The church is located at:
  • Grid: TQ 99236 63135
  • Post: ME13 0TH
  • WGS84: 51°19'37"N, 000°51'31"E
and there are more pictures of it at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:St_Mary%27s_Church,_Luddenham

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6267 on: March 11, 2022, 10:04:42 AM »
I`m 99.9% sure that it`s St. Mary, Luddenham.


Spot on Diapason.  Grade 1 listed within the confines of Luddenham Court.  It's very remote so I can't imagine a large congregation.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddenham,_Kent


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