Guess the Place

[DaveTheTrain]

Thanks Johnfilmer,  it is certainly a busy area these days.  It was the clue about the roads and corkscrew that gave me the biggest hint.   


Anyway, on the theme of pubs where is this?  It is still trading, and is now a Sheps pub.  No clues just yet.
DTT

[johnfilmer]

Well done DTT, Quarry Wood it is.


There was a cheap canteen style restaurant in one of the buildings (1973 ish). A workmate and I could “just” make Snodland to there and back with indigestion.


The original start to the M20 was like driving down a corkscrew onto the coast bound lane.


Over to DTT

[DaveTheTrain]

It is Quarry Wood Industrial Estate, near the RBL village.   The site was Preston Hall Hospital I would guess.
DTT.  I found it by guessing the general area and then looking at old-maps.co.uk for 1936.

[johnfilmer]

MartinR, exactly so, although not an exhaustive list, of course.


Nice idea JW, that never ending tight left hander as you head onto the Wainscott bypass from London bound M2, is very reminiscent of what I’m trying to describe. But not there...


Cover everything where the crescent once stood, in Retail.

[MartinR]

To sum up so far:

• South of the M20
• Near water
• Near two railway lines
• Railway station to the south (at the end of the drive)
• Around 93' (30m) above sea level
• Now: two sets of traffic lights and a large roundabout.
• Start of a "new type of road"
• NE of Seven Mile Lane

OK so far?

[John Walker]

Near the original start of the M2?

[johnfilmer]

JW, not Seven  lie Lane. Too far SW (ish)


MR, no roundabout at that point originally, large one now.

[MartinR]

John F, that makes me think about a roundabout at the start of a motorway.

[John Walker]

I'm still away and don't have access to the old maps on my mobile. I enjoy these map GTPs.
Anything to do with Seven Mile Lane?

[johnfilmer]

Nearby intersection was once a giddy making start to a new type of road

[johnfilmer]

The drive coming down past the lodge, originally continued on the south of the road, just visible behind the cottages on the lane. It went to a railway station.


The lane is now a busy road, although still called a lane.


The group of buildings was often referred to as a Colony.

[johnfilmer]

There are now two sets of traffic lights within the map area shown.

[johnfilmer]

Well that was an outright guess!
Next one is a map again, from the 1930s. None of the Crescent still exists, a lot of change especially since the 70s.
Mid Kent, near water and two railway lines. South of M20

[John Walker]

Goudhurst?

Yes, JohnFilmer, Goudhurst it is. St Marys
Over to you...

[johnfilmer]

Goudhurst?