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Offline stuartwaters

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6467 on: April 15, 2022, 10:18:25 AM »
I've worked there on their drains. Britannia Refined Metals in Northfleet.
"I did not say the French would not come, I said they will not come by sea" - Admiral Sir John Jervis, 1st Earl St Vincent.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6466 on: April 14, 2022, 01:17:43 PM »
I think it had its own jetty in use at one time.


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6465 on: April 14, 2022, 09:50:19 AM »
How near is "very near"?  Are we talking waterside, or a few streets inland?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6464 on: April 14, 2022, 07:43:27 AM »
Gone very Quiet,
Another Clue .
Very near the Thames.
West of Gravesend but not as far as Ebbsfleet.
 Keep looking :) :)


If nobody else gets it soon, I'll go for it to keep things moving  :)

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6463 on: April 14, 2022, 07:39:13 AM »
Gone very Quiet,
Another Clue .
Very near the Thames.
West of Gravesend but not as far as Ebbsfleet.
 Keep looking :) :)

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6462 on: April 12, 2022, 07:09:30 PM »
Clue ,easily visible on street View.

Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6461 on: April 12, 2022, 06:59:54 PM »
Found it, but will hold back for now  :)

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6460 on: April 12, 2022, 06:19:26 PM »
Yes the Thames is very close.


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6459 on: April 12, 2022, 12:04:55 PM »
A chancer of a guess.  Remains of the Vox Amplification factory in Dartford?


As a Kent teen growing up in the sixties and heavily into  music, there was much to be proud of. Not least it being the home of the AC30.  :)




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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6458 on: April 12, 2022, 11:52:01 AM »
Good guess but wrong.
Clue:- near water


The Thames?


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6457 on: April 12, 2022, 10:02:39 AM »
Good guess but wrong.
Clue:- near water

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6456 on: April 12, 2022, 12:04:13 AM »
A chancer of a guess.  Remains of the Vox Amplification factory in Dartford?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6455 on: April 11, 2022, 09:27:46 PM »
Thanks Beachbum.
I thought i had had a senior moment for a while there. :(


Lets try this one  . Clue to start you off DA postcode.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6454 on: April 11, 2022, 05:28:16 PM »
I think it was near the bottom of a hill near Harrietsham,I might be wrong was years ago.
I don't think the Brands hatch site shoot999 mentions s this Cafe unless i am totally barmy. :)


Yes. I was mixing it up with Johnson's Cafe

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6453 on: April 11, 2022, 03:34:44 PM »
Okay everyone, so it was the Halfway Cafe at Harrietsham on the A20.
It was the Hermitage Cafe in the 1920's and was famous for the Hells Angels and their Custom Bike Show in the 80's.
The Site became a property development in the 90's.
At it's peek, 4,000 bikers were there for the Custom Bike Show. The Police stayed in the Road and the Angels looked after the site.They then purchased a farm on the Marshes for their Show.
I remember passing the Lenham Cross at great speed on Sunday afternoons on the A20.
So Grandarog has it.............