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Offline stuartwaters

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #2932 on: October 01, 2020, 09:31:45 PM »
Hmmm, wasn't expecting that! Thanks John, I'll put one up tomorrow. I'm out and about in the County, so I'll take a piccy and post it.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #2931 on: October 01, 2020, 08:41:31 PM »
It was indeed Rochester, good guess Stuart. Over to you.

The plane had been rebuilt by MAPS (Medway Aeronautical Preservation Society?), with I believe a crated Packard Merlin.
We used to shoot on the old RAF range behind the main hangar and found the plane ready for its engine tests when we went to leave.
It was strapped down and Ray Hanna went through a large range of static tests with the plane bucking about, basically wanting to fly!
The noise from 50yds was incredible as we sheltered in the front of the hangar.

If you have never seen this, it is well worth a watch.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=low+spitfire+pass
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #2930 on: October 01, 2020, 08:20:10 PM »
Frak it, I'll have a go, Rochester Airfield?
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Offline stuartwaters

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #2929 on: October 01, 2020, 08:17:35 PM »
That is a Photo-Reconnaisance variant of the Spitfire, operated by the US Army Air Forces during the Second World War. These unarmed variants of the Spitfire could fly higher and faster than the armed Spitfires and were among a small number of British types operated by the Americans. As to where, not a scooby.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #2928 on: October 01, 2020, 08:06:41 PM »
Quote from: John Walker on October 01, 2020, 04:37:38 PM
A229 it is Shoot999 :)
Should be easy now ...


Can't remember what I was doing this morning, but can remember this from the once yearly journey down to Sussex to visit my grandparents in the 50s.   ???
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Offline johnfilmer

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #2927 on: October 01, 2020, 06:50:59 PM »
Afraid not JW.
Look carefully at the plane, it's a bit different.
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #2926 on: October 01, 2020, 06:27:29 PM »
Quick guess - Biggin Hill ?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #2925 on: October 01, 2020, 05:52:58 PM »
I knew that I recognised the buildings. The next to the left is Radford's Estate Office, a very good customer for many years, I could not count the times that I've been there. It was just that I would always see them from the other end.
Where was I to take this photo? Early/mid 1990s I think, if that helps.
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Offline MartinR

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #2924 on: October 01, 2020, 05:43:38 PM »
The wonders of Google and Historic England.  You were quicker John by a few minutes.  Well done.
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #2923 on: October 01, 2020, 05:17:28 PM »
You have it JohnFilmer. 


STAPLEHURST HIGH STREET  TQ 7843 (East side)
Nos. 1, 2 and3 The Crown and carriage entrance to south (formerly listed as Crown Cottages)
GV II
House row, possibly formerly an inn. Mid C16, restored early C20.Timber framed with rendered infilling. Plain tile roof. Approximately8 timber-framed bays; including 2 stack bays. 2 storeys and cellars. Brick plinth, with stone base to left end. Close-studded. Continuous jetty on moulded bressumer, with moulded solid-spandrel brackets. Mid-height rail to first floor, interrupted by principal posts and by studs flanking windows. Roof half-hipped to left with gablet; to right, hipped with gablet down to lower ridge over right end of main range and over carriage entrance. Brick ridge stacks to second and sixth timber-framed bays from left, with rear brick stack between them and another to right end. Irregular fenestration of 6 leaded 3-light wood mullion casements. 3 ribbed doors with 4-centred-arched heads; one to left stack bay, one towards right end of fourth timber-framed bay from left, and one to right of seventh bay from left, each up a flight of stone steps and with small grilled judas. Arch-braced carriage entrance to right end.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #2922 on: October 01, 2020, 04:45:03 PM »
High Street Staplehurst, left hand side as you head away from Maidstone.
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #2921 on: October 01, 2020, 04:37:38 PM »
A229 it is Shoot999 :)
Should be easy now ...
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #2920 on: October 01, 2020, 02:53:46 PM »
A229?   Failing that the A21?
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #2919 on: October 01, 2020, 01:29:00 PM »
You need to go a fair few miles SSW from Milton Regis passing over two motorways.  Castle261
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #2918 on: October 01, 2020, 10:00:52 AM »
What about Milton - a bit like their court building -

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