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Offline johnfilmer

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5657 on: November 21, 2021, 10:35:05 AM »
A real guess as I can’t see a picture of the font, Goudhurst?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5656 on: November 20, 2021, 07:44:17 PM »
Nice views
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5655 on: November 20, 2021, 02:37:26 PM »
Nice pub/hotel next door
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5654 on: November 19, 2021, 01:27:18 PM »
SW of mid Kent
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5653 on: November 19, 2021, 10:48:08 AM »
When I first saw the photo, I thought Rochester for some obscure reason. 


Interesting family history in Canterbury.  My ex-wife's aunt was related to the Canterbury Swain family.  I seem to remember there was talk of a murder at some point.


Next one - Find the font ...
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5652 on: November 19, 2021, 08:26:00 AM »
Sorry JW, I just couldn’t resist it :)


It is indeed 42 Stour Street, as it was in 1910. The right hand side of the building was demolished in about 1915 to enlarge access to St Edmunds road alongside. The black and white to the left is the Royal Exchange.


My great great grandfather, a saddler, moved to Butchery Lane, Canterbury in late 1850s. His eldest son followed him as a saddler, living and working at Chilham. His younger son became a baker, working for the James family business in Castle Street, Canterbury. Swains were also related to the James’s by marriage. Many of his sons also became bakers, including my grandfather. They were in Canada, South Africa and New Zealand.


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5651 on: November 19, 2021, 12:28:33 AM »
This one threw me but the architecture of the pub rang a bell.  I think I have it now - The Royal Exchange, Stour Street.  Just along the road from my tannery offices GTP.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5650 on: November 18, 2021, 09:36:32 PM »
We are indeed in Canterbury...
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5649 on: November 18, 2021, 08:48:11 PM »
Ash's supplied around 70 pubs mainly in the North Eastern corner of Kent. Would that be the right area to search?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5648 on: November 18, 2021, 08:21:54 PM »
Maybe too obvious, but "Ash's Canterbury Ales and Stout" - would we be in Canterbury or its environs?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5647 on: November 18, 2021, 07:13:43 PM »
Rochester?

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Offline johnfilmer

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5646 on: November 18, 2021, 06:03:46 PM »
Martin, I'm pleased that the brickwork isn't as Google would have you believe! The camera never lies...
I'm a bit short of suitable photos and still cannot take streetview screenshots. However I remembered this from my Ancestry research, suitably doctored to remove the blindingly obvious clues - sorry I can't draw straight lines with a mouse, or blend colours.
Some one may get this straight away, or not. It does not look like this now, this was 1910.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5645 on: November 18, 2021, 04:34:23 PM »
Found it at last!  It's in Clearwater Mews.  I see what you mean about the brick courses, but I think that's just Google stitching photos together.  The link JW posted shows rather more rational brickwork, click on photo 7 to enlarge it.  For anyone trying to find it, and who needs a bit more help than "just off Stour Street", I've dug out the following locators:
  • Address: 47 Stour Street CT1 2LZ (but note that on GSV you need to go into the Mews).
  • Grid ref: TR 14599 57625
  • WGS84: 51°16'38"N 001°04'32"E
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5644 on: November 18, 2021, 01:05:16 PM »
You have it JohnFilmer.  The office for St Mildred's Tannery.  Not sure why it's now been re-named The Old Rectory.  Perhaps it was previously the rectory for the nearby St Mildred's Church. 


The whole of Canterbury would share the rather unpleasant aroma from the tannery right through to the 70s.  My father worked there after the war.  I always knew when he had arrived home.  The aroma must have got into his skin.  I didn't bother me though.  It was just Dad.  It was good when he later got a job at Lucas CAV  in Rochester.  He didn't smell of dead cows anymore.


The whole area of the tannery is now residential.


History of the tannery in this link.



http://www.canterbury-archaeology.org.uk/tannery/4590809563


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5643 on: November 18, 2021, 10:53:49 AM »
It looks as though the office for Connolly Leather has morphed into The Old Rectory, just off Stour Street. "Interesting" brick courses!
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