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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7554 on: November 08, 2022, 02:38:55 PM »
Chatham Hill area ?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7553 on: November 08, 2022, 02:36:50 PM »
And yes, it is visible on GSV...
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7552 on: November 08, 2022, 02:35:03 PM »
Not in the Dockyard but not far from it. In the same general postcode area, ME4.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7551 on: November 08, 2022, 10:31:38 AM »
I don't recall seeing it anywhere.


Visible on GSV ?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7550 on: November 08, 2022, 09:02:37 AM »
Quick guess, the dockyard?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7549 on: November 07, 2022, 11:17:51 PM »
Okay, does anyone know where this old fuel pump is? ME postcode area to get you going..
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« Reply #7548 on: November 07, 2022, 06:43:35 AM »
I have a photo on my phone but it's far too big to add. I need to upload it to my pc and "shrink" it. Please bear with me till this evening.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7547 on: November 06, 2022, 06:04:45 PM »
Quote from: MartinR on November 06, 2022, 03:59:25 PM
If the metal disk was vertical, then it was probably a Polyphon player.  Unlike the pianola where the holes produce the notes, the holes in a polyphon are where metal has been bent back to form a pin-like structure.  There's a link below to a short video showing how the system worked.  The one in the video is horizontal, but Polyphon produced much larger vertical ones sometimes with multiple tracks, accessed by moving the disks slightly sideways.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Polyphon_Stille_Nacht_Heilige_Nacht.webm


That's it MartinR.  The one I remember at the Ringlestone was upright with the disc facing the front at around chest level.  Might have been a glass front but I'm not sure.  I don't recall hearing it play.


EDIT:  Just found this image.  Very close but I don't recall the case being so ornate.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7546 on: November 06, 2022, 03:59:25 PM »
If the metal disk was vertical, then it was probably a Polyphon player.  Unlike the pianola where the holes produce the notes, the holes in a polyphon are where metal has been bent back to form a pin-like structure.  There's a link below to a short video showing how the system worked.  The one in the video is horizontal, but Polyphon produced much larger vertical ones sometimes with multiple tracks, accessed by moving the disks slightly sideways.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Polyphon_Stille_Nacht_Heilige_Nacht.webm
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7545 on: November 06, 2022, 03:29:47 PM »
I agree with your comment about narrow lanes.  We used to drive along the single-track lane from Doddington in the dark.  Made it seem like such an adventure.  I hadn't realised it would have been an easier drive from the A20 at Harrietsham.  No Sat-Nav and no maps to hand.  I'd just been given directions to take a right fork after Doddington and keep driving through dark wooded areas until I got there.


Photo shows how narrow the lane is and it seemed to go on for miles.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7544 on: November 06, 2022, 11:48:13 AM »
My sister and I took a Canadian cousin and his wife there in probably 1969. It would have been around June as Charlie tried to go to the D-Day celebrations most years.


I think that candles and a low power generator were used later in the evening.


Memory (which can be a fickle thing...) has it that the Gents was still an external affair. Although there was always the “pick a tree” option.


Charlie’s wife Margaret had not been into the darkest depths of Kent before, so we went to the pub via every little lane that I could find, including one that is now impassable, or was last time I went that way, or tried to!
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7543 on: November 06, 2022, 10:52:12 AM »
Well done StuartWaters.  It is indeed the Ringlestone.


I used to drive out there from Canterbury in the 60s.  Amazing atmosphere.  The place was black with smoke.  Stone floors and a music 'jukebox thing' with a very large metal disc with holes like a pianola has.
I'm not sure if there was an electricity supply - very dark in there so possibly candles.  There might have been a generator out the back though.


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7542 on: November 06, 2022, 10:34:18 AM »
Location:
  • Nat'l Grid:              TQ 87912 55764
  • Post Code:            ME17 1NX
  • Coords (WGS84): 51°16'12"N, 000°41'33"E or  51.27004,0.69238
A bit outside Ringlestone itself, and well away from Harrietsham or Maidstone.
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« Reply #7541 on: November 06, 2022, 10:10:05 AM »
A mother and daughter ran it for years. Very strict in their ways. If you were lucky, they let you in and served you. Any problems out came the Shotgun. Nobody argued with them. :)
Very nice now more upmarket than when the old dears ran it.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7540 on: November 06, 2022, 08:45:33 AM »
That's the Ringlestone Inn near Harrietsham. Last time I went there, it was a Shep's House but was a freehouse for years.
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