Guess the Place

[MartinR]

Did the pyramid originally house the village fire pump?

[CAT]

There could be a well beneath, but water is certainly involved with this structure.

[johnfilmer]

Is/was it a well?

[CAT]

Its not a lock up Pete, though it did have a community function when first constructed as a commemorative structure

[pete.mason]

Is the pyramid roof building an old lock up?

[CAT]

Not a million miles away John Walker, but not south of Ashford and a little further away it being surrounded by the 'Dens'.

[John Walker]

This has the feel of some of the roads heading roughly south out of Ashford?

[CAT]

There is indeed johnfilmer. Though the trees and hedges along both sides of the road have grown since the picture was taken, the weather boarded house on the left is still there as well as the guide post on the left side of the junction. The most important survival is the small pyramidical roofed structure on the right, which still survives unaltered.

[johnfilmer]

Is anything about the picture recognisable on Street view?

[CAT]

Many thanks Stewie. Not that I'm a train buff, but signal boxes are something quite distinctive.


Here's my next, which is well away from my own stomping ground, but a charming rural scene none the less.

[Stewie]

Do you know CAT I believe that it is! Over to you 👍

[CAT]

Would that be the former signal box from Buckden, which then went to Fleggburgh, Great Yarmouth and now stands over the bridge at Broadwater Lane, Tunbridge Wells on the Spa Valley Line?

[Stewie]

Thanks Pete, I used to visit here in the 1980s when it was quite a popular venue. I think it was marketed as the smallest public house in Kent. I don't have much to tease you all with but as a change from churches and pubs I thought perhaps a signal box for change.

[pete.mason]

It was indeed, over to you

[Stewie]

Was it the 'Little Gem' in Aylesford village?