Guess the Place

[shoot999]

Opened early 1880s to cater for contagious diseases and expanded to accommodate  general patients convalescing.

[shoot999]

Medway Towns it is. 

[John Walker]

It's the slope that made me think of Darenth.  So next guess Medway towns? - plenty of slopes there.

[shoot999]

Darenth area?

Within approx 20 miles of the Darenth area. So the right part of Kent.

[John Walker]

Darenth area?

[shoot999]

Hospital?

Yes. Now demolished. Site now a mixture of houses and  a  smaller similar facility.

[MartinR]

Hospital?

[shoot999]

Thanks for that John. Yes, the clues led me to it.


An easier one I think, so no clues yet.

[John Walker]

That was a good one John Walker ,I searched all sorts at Margate
and never got nearer than Turner and Mrs Booth's house .

Thanks Grandarog.  It seems that Margate has more history than I realised.

[grandarog]

That was a good one John Walker ,I searched all sorts at Margate
and never got nearer than Turner and Mrs Booth's house .

[MartinR]

I'm not familiar with Margate, but thanks to shoot999 I can give the "camera" position as:

• Nat'l grid:   TR 35453 71086
• Post code: CT9 1DD
• WGS84:     51°23'24"N, 001°22'58"E or 51.3899393,1.3828862

[John Walker]

Not Confectionery Beachbum.  The house is still there in King Street, complete with blue plaque.


You've got it Shoot999.  The clues were all there     Over to you.


The Cobbs Brewery was massive and covered quite a large area behind the house as can be seen in the attached photo.  The house in my GTP is on the lower right of the outlined area.  Most of it has gone now and the few remaining buildings appear to have been changed to residential.


http://breweryhistory.com/wiki/index.php?title=Cobb_%26_Co.

[shoot999]

In respect of Turner he stayed at Mrs Booths Guest House which is where the Turner Contemporary is now situated. Early in his life he schooled just a short walk away at the junction of Love Lane/Hawley Street.


Just to the east of Love Lane is King Street where Frances 'King' Cobb lived, and this house is situated.  A banker and brewer known as the 'King of Margate'

[Beachbum]

Wild guess time, would Chocolates and Confectionery be the product?Does this House still exist?

[John Walker]

Turner is understood to have stayed in this area of Margate.