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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9718 on: March 08, 2024, 12:14:39 PM »
Random Guess to start the ball rolling . East Sutton??

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9717 on: March 07, 2024, 10:29:44 PM »
Mid Kent
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9716 on: March 07, 2024, 11:34:20 AM »
Where is this church hiding in the bushes?

North of the M20
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9715 on: March 06, 2024, 09:55:05 PM »
Location info:
  • Nat Grid:                    TQ 89463 61792
  • Nearest Post Code:   ME9 8DX
  • Co-ords (WGS84):     51°19'25"N,000°43'04"E or 51.32367,0.7177869

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9714 on: March 06, 2024, 05:52:15 PM »
The old village hall is now a house.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9713 on: March 06, 2024, 04:27:23 PM »
I even went to a couple of “Do’s” in the old village hall opposite, and walked up through there with a girlfriend who lived in Park Drive. No wonder it looked familiar.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9712 on: March 06, 2024, 01:23:00 PM »
Thats it JohnFilmer. Victorian Post box in the Wall other side of Gateway.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9711 on: March 06, 2024, 12:59:00 PM »
I knew it was familiar… Tunstall House, Tunstall.

Must have driven past it thousands of times.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9710 on: March 06, 2024, 11:18:17 AM »
No guesses Time for a Clue . Sittingbourne area.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9709 on: March 05, 2024, 08:18:54 PM »
MartinR is correct in that the postcard image is indeed the 1906 Election (see below)

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9708 on: March 04, 2024, 10:19:04 PM »
They're not the same photo though.  There are far more people in the original posting, as well as the board.  There's a clock in the 1910 photo but not the the other, the people at the window are different, as is the man standing on Rowe's balcony.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9707 on: March 04, 2024, 08:43:00 PM »
Here is the photo of the Election Rally in Ramsgate

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9706 on: March 04, 2024, 07:51:20 PM »
Found it but will hold back for now.  Quite a place.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9705 on: March 03, 2024, 10:12:55 PM »
At least we now know it was an Election for Parliament result celebration.

Here's the next one much less complicated . Where would you see this view?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9704 on: March 03, 2024, 08:32:35 PM »
Are you quite certain that you've got the right election?  That board has a first line of "MAR...", a second line of "KING ..." and an indecipherable third line.

The 1904 Isle of Thanet by-election saw Harry Marks (Con) beat Joseph King (Lib).  The 1906 general election saw Harry Marks (Con) beat Joseph King (Lib) with Frederick Goodhart (Ind Con) in third place.

If the third line was the majority, then it would suggest 1904 whereas if it were the entry for Goohart then the scene is the 1906 general election.

The January 1910 general election saw Norman Craig (Con) beat Julian Weigall (Lib) whilst in the December 1910 general election Craig was returned unopposed.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Thanet_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_1900s for details.