Guess the Place

[stuartwaters]

At last, one I've managed to find. This is a picture dating from the early 1930s of The Swan, or The Old Swan at 1 Wood Street, Brompton. The photo was taken after 1929, when the Maidstone-based Style and Winch was bought out by Barclay, Perkins and Co.


It was demolished to make room for the roundabout at the junction of Wood Street and Dock Road?

[KeithG]

Thanks shoot999......that being around my area i knew the scene well as coming down the hill towards it was the route from my Aunts.


Next is a picture of a now demolished pub which was included to make way for a very large road improvement scheme.

[shoot999]

Well done KeithG. Also described as the guardhouse to Fort Clarence. Opposite the old Girls Grammar School and adjacent to the Alms Houses. We lived almost opposite in Morden street. Used to play in there as a kid in the late 50s, early 60s as the  wall was so easy to get over. Use the railings to get up on the ledge, lay across the plinth, spin yourself round, and down the other side. 


Unfortunately a couple of kids got injured; I believe a fatality or two; and it was demolished in the mid 60s.


Surprisingly most of the view apart from the guardhouse is still the same.


Over to you!

[KeithG]

It was part of the Block House at Fort Clarence on the Maidstone Road Rochester

[shoot999]

Yes that's the location.  Part of the wall is all that remains. (Not that the wall and railings ever kept us out!)

[KeithG]

Was it where this new house is?

[shoot999]

And the next. This has been well documented so no clues.

[shoot999]

My great Uncle sitting at the head of the pier nearly a century ago.

[John Walker]

Shoot999 has it - The demolition of Herne Bay Pier Pavilion c2010


Over to you ...

[grandarog]

Wild Guess Richborough Power Station.

[shoot999]

Not Dover, you said entertainment. So a previous Herne Bay Pier?

[shoot999]

So coastal, possibly south?


Dover?

[John Walker]

Not Ashford CAT


This structure could be seen from miles away.  In fact, with a telescope it could be see from another county.  I believe this was the third structure in the same place. all built for the same purpose.

[CAT]

Ashford area?

[John Walker]

Further clue:  Away from my usual GTP area.  Taken when I had a car about 9 years ago. I could catch a bus there now though.