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Offline grandarog

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7925 on: January 22, 2023, 12:31:29 PM »
Thanks MartinR, Try this one . Where is this.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7924 on: January 21, 2023, 02:33:42 PM »
Yes.  The photo was taken at 16:41 on 13 January 2008 just after the service had finished (my son was a choister that day).   It is an annual service well attended by representatives of the farming community so the photo is fairly timeless.

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Plough Sunday is a traditional English celebration of the beginning of the agricultural year that has seen some revival over recent years. Plough Sunday celebrations usually involve bringing a ploughshare into a church with prayers for the blessing of the land. It is traditionally held on the Sunday after Epiphany, the Sunday between 7 January and 13 January. Accordingly, work in the fields did not begin until the day after Plough Sunday: Plough Monday. Although the nature of farming has changed over the centuries, Plough Sunday is seen as a way of generally celebrating farming and the work of farmers. In the Church of England book of liturgy, Common Worship: Times and Seasons, there is a suggested prayer for the "Blessing of the Plough", for the "Blessing of Seed" and passages of Scripture related to the agricultural theme.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plough_Sunday

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7923 on: January 21, 2023, 12:33:42 PM »
In that case, I think it is the Annual Blessing of the Plough Service . :)

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7922 on: January 21, 2023, 09:51:13 AM »
John Walker has already fixed it at Rochester Cathedral, I suspect from the tiles.  Keep thinking about the plough and forget Wouldham.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7921 on: January 21, 2023, 07:25:30 AM »
is it a display at a Ploughing Match maybe last year at Wouldham ?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7920 on: January 20, 2023, 11:06:41 PM »
Hint: What is the biggest object you can see in the photo?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7919 on: January 19, 2023, 12:40:29 PM »
Sorry Grandarog, not that.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7918 on: January 19, 2023, 11:30:24 AM »
Yes it's Rochester John, but what is happening?


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7917 on: January 19, 2023, 11:14:15 AM »
Was it part of the Big Earth  Globe  exhibition in the Cathedral?


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7916 on: January 19, 2023, 11:05:52 AM »
Yes it's Rochester John, but what is happening?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7915 on: January 19, 2023, 10:23:49 AM »
Rochester Cathedral?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7914 on: January 19, 2023, 09:57:54 AM »
Not a harvest festival.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7913 on: January 18, 2023, 11:49:34 PM »
A Harvest Festival ?


Those tiles look familiar.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7912 on: January 18, 2023, 06:03:34 PM »
Try this one then.  What is happening and, of course, where?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7911 on: January 18, 2023, 03:54:07 PM »
Well done MartinR.  It is indeed the Memorial Park Boating Lake in Herne Bay.  Many years ago it had rowing boats and canoes now it's just model boat at the weekends.  The large island used to have an ornate bridge.


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