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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5342 on: September 24, 2021, 09:15:07 AM »
Great Clue John Waters .
 The old Tunbridge Wells West Railway Station.
        Now preserved by the Spa Railway. Mentioned in Imagies Project website.


https://www.spavalleyrailway.co.uk/article.php/27/tunbridge-wells-west-station

https://www.thetunbridgewellsproject.co.uk/



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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5341 on: September 24, 2021, 12:03:35 AM »
Chalybeate water ...

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5340 on: September 23, 2021, 06:25:16 PM »
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Sea_Bathing_Hospital if anyone is interested.


Thanks MartinR.   Some of my family stayed there in the years before it closed.  It was in a sorry state as I recall.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5339 on: September 23, 2021, 06:24:30 PM »

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5338 on: September 23, 2021, 05:51:48 PM »

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5337 on: September 23, 2021, 05:21:21 PM »
Railway building?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5336 on: September 23, 2021, 02:13:41 PM »
Not a brewery Dave Smith.  The building now has another use but not its original use.  However, what it was built for is still operational a couple of hundred yards away.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5335 on: September 23, 2021, 11:28:38 AM »
grandarog. I liked this but didn't understand a word!  JohnWalker. Looks like a brewery?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5334 on: September 23, 2021, 10:43:15 AM »
Next one folks - In plain view and still exists.

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« Reply #5333 on: September 23, 2021, 10:41:44 AM »
Thanks, Diapason, an interesting one.  I've driven past so many times and not really taken notice.  Thanks also to Grandarog for the further info.


It looks like the building is in good condition going by this fairly current view on Google.


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5332 on: September 23, 2021, 10:21:42 AM »
Well done JohnWalker.


The Chapel is Grade 2 listed.


Hospital chapel. 1882-3 by James Knowles Junior for Erasmus Wilson. Early English style. Polychrome brickwork with slate roof and some stone dressings. 6 bay nave with 1 bay chancel and lower apsidal ended sanctuary and small octagonal tower with brick spire and stone finial to north west. West gable has 5-light traceried windows. 5 arched windows with double lancets with trefoil heads and quatrefoil motifs above and easternmost window with 3 trefoil headed lancets and 3 quatrefoils all divided by buttresses. Gabled south porch. Interior: The interior contains a very fine series of stained glass depicting miracles and healing plants by Clayton and Bell. Encaustic tiled floor to chancel and sanctuary and central strip to nave. Hammer beam roof and stencilled decorations to walls. Wall painting to west end. Octagonal font with marble columns. There is a Willis organ with stencilled pipes.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5331 on: September 23, 2021, 08:15:11 AM »
As far as I`m aware, the chapel is still standing and an attempt is being made to convert it into two houses.


Also that the historic `Father` Willis organ be re-located. if or when it is restored from its appalling condition.


Over to you, John W!


https://npor.org.uk/NPORView.html?RI=N14623

 



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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5330 on: September 22, 2021, 11:29:17 PM »
The chapel at the Sea Bathing Hospital, Margate.  A lot of the original building has been converted into des-res apartments.   I wonder if the chapel has been saved.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5329 on: September 22, 2021, 07:41:32 PM »
Ursuline Convent at Westgate?

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« Reply #5328 on: September 22, 2021, 02:22:22 PM »
Yes, an Institution  -  I think that you are nearly there!