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Offline MartinR

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #219 on: October 31, 2019, 10:27:13 AM »
Abbey makes me think of Minster-in-Sheppey, but that's only a guess.
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #218 on: October 31, 2019, 10:11:11 AM »
I should have got this one straight away - I lived 3 minutes walk from it a few year ago!!!
I won't put a 'guess' forward as it wouldn't be a Guess :)
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #217 on: October 31, 2019, 07:07:08 AM »


Yes, I agree! But unfortunately it isn`t Sandwich.

Close to a large church and an abbey. (That should give it away).
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #216 on: October 30, 2019, 07:57:54 PM »
That has a look of Sandwich ...
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #215 on: October 30, 2019, 08:50:50 AM »
Next offering, with a very tenuous connection with the previous GTP photo.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #214 on: October 29, 2019, 12:48:07 PM »
There's more about the bells here: http://kent.lovesguide.com/tower.php?id=135  Number 3, 5 and 6 (tenor) are the original 1663 bells, so (discounting a bit of retuning to 5 and 6) you are hearing the same sound as rang out 350 years ago.
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Offline Local Hiker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #213 on: October 29, 2019, 10:27:22 AM »
Diapason, you have guessed the place correctly. The Abbey Church of St Mary and St Sexburga in Minster on Sea, (not Minster Ramsgate).
The old meets the new with the modern rectory and function room in the car park on the left.
This site says more than I can. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1273489
I can hear the bells from my garden.


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Offline Diapason

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #212 on: October 29, 2019, 09:07:37 AM »
Minster Abbey?
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Offline Local Hiker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #211 on: October 28, 2019, 08:28:36 PM »
Thanks johnfilmer. I am very familiar with the pumping station; it is quite a striking building. I was not aware that it was flats.

I have some photos somehere, but cannot find them on my PC. The riverside path (Medway north bank) was closed for a while a few years ago, and the diversion took you onto Forstal Road and right passed it.

I have no recollection of the specific building in your GTP photo; I note that the whole area has been bulldozed and is being re-developed.


Back to churches. Where is this?
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Offline johnfilmer

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #210 on: October 28, 2019, 08:04:10 PM »
Well done Local Hiker. It was Phoenix House, Forstal Road, at the time home to the Dixonheat Group.


The pumping station still has a row of accumulators along the road frontage.


I left in 1984 to strike out on my own.


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #209 on: October 28, 2019, 07:54:34 PM »
The bollards are still there in GE in September 2018. Forstal Road, Aylesford
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Offline johnfilmer

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #208 on: October 28, 2019, 05:31:53 PM »
The listed Pumping Station has some of its (previously) functioning parts in full view, where they always were.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #207 on: October 28, 2019, 07:47:18 AM »
Go south(ish)
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Offline Invicta Alec

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #206 on: October 27, 2019, 09:52:30 PM »
Nelson Terrace, Luton?


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Offline johnfilmer

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #205 on: October 27, 2019, 05:24:57 PM »
Sorry, I misread Martin's earlier post so did not realise that my wild-ar*ed guess was actually right :)
So now for something completely different... The photo was sent to me very recently by someone who was our cheap trainee in the early 1980s. The building was designed and built in house about 1980 and demolished 2016ish. It is still a vacant site.

Photo taken late 81/early 82. I had the doubtful pleasure of charging about in the Ford Granada as my company barge.
Not very historic you may say, but next door was a Victorian pumping station, now converted to flats.
But where?
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