Guess the Place

[Beachbum]

Thanks JW, I was born there (no blue plaque yet).
Okay folks, try this one..........

[John Walker]

You have it Beachbum.  The Ramsgate General Hospital, now residential.    I wondered if you would get it first.  Guessing you have connections with the area.

51.33071203433421, 1.410873221349325


Over to you ...

[Beachbum]

The former Ramsgate Hospital?

[John Walker]

Deal?  Or Kingsdown?

Sorry if I've misled you MartinR,  My clues were generalising rather than specific.  Grandarog is very close but wrong town.

[John Walker]

Broadstairs ?  Cant go much farther East with dry feet.

Adjoining town Grandrog.

[MartinR]

Deal?  Or Kingsdown?

[grandarog]

Broadstairs ?  Cant go much farther East with dry feet.

[John Walker]

How precisely East (remember I'm a sailor and tend to think of bearings fairly precisely)?  As far as Dover?

Almost as easterly as you can go in Kent

[MartinR]

How precisely East (remember I'm a sailor and tend to think of bearings fairly precisely)?  As far as Dover?

[John Walker]

This building had thousands of visitors over the years

[John Walker]

Are we back in Canterbury?

Not Canterbury this time

[John Walker]

Easy to see on GSV.  East of Ashford

[johnfilmer]

Are we back in Canterbury?

[John Walker]

I think the racecourse discussion is finished, so here's the next one.


Where is this and what is it's history?

[John Walker]

Just to add to previous posts about Lenham Racecourse - I have found nothing helpful. We all found the greyhound article, but there seems to be little else floating in the ether. NLS maps have 6inch and 25inch of 1902/3 and later 1930s that show the field as "Old Race Course", but that's about it.

I even plodded through about 20pages of Hasted just in case there was an earlier reference to the course, but no luck.
Carry on regardless...

I find it strange that it's referred to as a greyhound racecourse but the info on the link relates to horses?  Greyhounds race on Racetracks and horses race on Racecourses.

The course was on Lenham Hill, a short distance from the town centre, and opened with a Sweepstake won by Mr Brigg’s brown mare Fanny.The Lenham meeting was very well supported by Mr J S Douglas whose trainer was Drewitt. His horses were mostly ridden by George Fordham who rode the Squire of Lenham’s Derby favourite, Tournament, in the Epsom Derby of 1857, but it was beaten by Blink Bonny. The final meeting took place on Friday 29th June 1860.