Guess the Place

[grandarog]

Thanks johnfilmer. Seen plenty of times when waiting at the lights.


Try this one should be very easy may even attract a newcomer to GTP.
What is it and Where was it .

[MartinR]

Camera position close by:

• Nat Grid:    TQ 81306 66098
• Post Code: ME8 7JB
• WGS84:     51°21'54"N 000°36'11"E or 51.36501,0.60304

[johnfilmer]

That’s the place Grandarog.


I was born a couple of hundred yards up the Maidstone Road, and about the date of this photo would be waiting by the bus stop (by the people walking away from the camera) at 5am for my Dad to pick me up in his NAAFI van on a Saturday. A trip around the military bases of Thanet was great fun.


From (dodgy) memory the shop on the right was a butcher, the middle a green grocer, and a ladies hairdresser on the left. The garage on the corner had one of those Castrol oil pumps housing a drum of oil, hand pumped into a metal jug. I have a pint jug, it has a customs & excise lead seal to denote its accuracy. There was also an hydraulic lift on the Maidstone Road entrance, one of those with a large central column and two parallel ramps. Outdoors I presume because of headroom.


At the time of the photo Berengrave Lane came[size=78%] out on a steep junction opposite the Maidstone Road. I think that the alteration of the road layout coincided with the provision of a lay by for the bus stop, at about the time of building the new Police Station to the right of the camera position. That was about 1957.[/size]
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[grandarog]

A2 London bound Rainham,Maidstone Road behind on left .Shops are now AGGARWAL & CO LTD CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS

[shoot999]

Another home from home from me, so I'll hang on for a while.

[johnfilmer]

Right then, try this photo found on t'internet. Circa 1950 something, earlier rather than later in my view.
The deserted road is the A2!
There are two roads behind the camera forming a crossroads with the A2, name either as the place.

[MartinR]

Tonge mill at:

• Nat Grid:   TQ934635 / TQ9343863566
• Post Code:  ME9 9AW
• WGS84:      51°20'18"N, 000°46'33"E or 51.33827,0.77572

It was that stack that made me think of a mill.  They used to be fairly common across the north when I was younger.

[johnfilmer]

Diapason have you beaten your computer into submission and can now post pictures (I had a similar problem that just appeared, and then vanished without me understanding what I had done, or not done) feel free to jump in.
I'll wait a while, as we don't all stare at our screens all the time, not being teenagers 

[Diapason]

Tonge Mll 2021

[John Walker]

The only Mill that I could think of that fits is Tonge Mill, and a quick street view later, I think it is.

You have it JohnFilmer.  It is indeed Tonge Mill.  I'd never heard of it before.


Over to you ...

[johnfilmer]

The only Mill that I could think of that fits is Tonge Mill, and a quick street view later, I think it is.

[John Walker]

Yes - a mill and it still exists.  A2 not far away.

[johnfilmer]

Still exists?

[Diapason]

I`m with granderog on this one!


Hopefully I`ll `sort` my photo posting problems soon. 

[MartinR]

Some sort of a mill?