Guess the Place

[John Walker]

A2 or A20?

A2  Shoot999


Not far from where a motorway meets the A road

[shoot999]

A2 or A20?

[John Walker]

Close to a garden to visit and a village now bypassed by an important A Road. About 2km from a significant WW2 structure.

[John Walker]

I struck lucky with that one Pete.  Your clue of less than 10miles and the look of the scene made me think of Snodland.  A search of the streets found it.


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Somewhere else for me to visit sometime.

[pete.mason]

Wow, thought that was a safe one on a road to nowhere. Now a care home called Birling House. All yours

[John Walker]

Queens Head Hotel, Snodland ?

[pete.mason]

Less than 10 miles by crow

[John Walker]

Maidstone area?

[pete.mason]

Most certainly,  not sure when it closed but I used to call there in the 1970s-80s

[MartinR]

But was once?

[pete.mason]

i found it from the David Skardon notes. No ambiguity on this one , no longer a pub or hotel

[MartinR]

@CAT: this source seems to imply it was a Sunday School:
https://davidskardon.wixsite.com/skardons-world/more-old-pictures
However this source:
http://home.freeuk.com/eastkent/deal/middle_st/middle_street_1.htm
disagrees and says it was originally a National School (Infants).

It's visible on GSV at:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.2260982,1.4033872,3a,75y,91.29h,87.21t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sBASrcUb537HkwbIoeUE5uA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e1
hence located at: 51.2260982°N 1.4033872°E

Although the door in is Brewer Street, from the numbering it is in Middle Street.  I discovered (from council website) that Brewer Street is named after the town's first recorder and not, as one might suppose, from an ale-maker.

[CAT]

Now here is a dilemma! The building, which is The National School site on a corner formed by the junction of Middle Street and Brewer Street. However, as the entrance is technically in Brewer Street I think it only fair that it goes to Pete. Sorry Diapason.

[Diapason]

Middle Street?

[pete.mason]

Brewer St , old Sunday school