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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7596 on: November 15, 2022, 06:10:25 PM »
Nice hotel at the top of the hill in the nearby village.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7595 on: November 15, 2022, 10:46:54 AM »
Near a village on a steep hill.

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« Reply #7594 on: November 14, 2022, 05:48:07 PM »
You have done it again John Walker .I will pass on this one as one of my Wife's Ancestors ran the Pub in the 1880's. :)


Grandarog, hopefully you will have interesting history to add once it's been guessed.




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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7593 on: November 14, 2022, 01:11:38 PM »
You have done it again John Walker .I will pass on this one as one of my Wife's Ancestors ran the Pub in the 1880's. :)

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7592 on: November 14, 2022, 12:25:51 PM »
Name of pub and where?


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7591 on: November 13, 2022, 06:47:46 PM »
Thanks Grandarog. I was looking in the wrong part of Stone Street but the feel was of Cranbrook.  I've never actually walked around the town.  Looks really nice so must try and pay a visit sometime.


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7590 on: November 13, 2022, 06:12:33 PM »
Well Done john Walker. Your quick guess is spot on.As you say not a lot of the old architecture left ie. Chimneys gone.
Over to you.  :D ;D

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7589 on: November 13, 2022, 05:53:51 PM »
Quick guess.    I can't match it exactly on GSV but it has the look of Stone Street, Cranbrook.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7588 on: November 13, 2022, 09:21:50 AM »
Here you go for the next one.
One from my Postcards.
Street and Village Names.

Roughly central Kent.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7587 on: November 12, 2022, 10:48:53 PM »
Thanks johnfilmer.
I still have no idea what the building was when the photo was taken..
I thought it had a Navy connection as it appears to have a Flagpole and Jackstaff in front.
Will sort a GTP tomorrow,
PS .Have just watched the Festival of Remembrance, beautifully presented this year as always.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7586 on: November 12, 2022, 07:31:49 PM »
Grandarog has the pottery kilns correct, Queenborough it is.


I knew this building in the 1960s when it was the Yard Foreman’s residence. A school friend lived there, it was very odd inside with exceptionally high ceilings and walls that did not always reach them.


All flattened now  :(
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7585 on: November 12, 2022, 05:18:51 PM »
Harbour Master's House ?


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7584 on: November 12, 2022, 02:35:02 PM »
Don't know what the building is but it looks like Queenborough old pottery kilns in the background.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7583 on: November 12, 2022, 11:58:36 AM »
I think that this is a nice simple one, but then I know the answer...
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7582 on: November 12, 2022, 11:04:57 AM »
I used to drive past that house a lot in my heating estimating days.


GSV is fine on my laptop, but WiFi is a bit iffy because of the construction of our cottage. Concrete block and beam construction for both ground and first floor means a lot of steel reinforcing rods in the exposed beams, forming a part Faraday Cage. We use plugin booster thingys and the signal in my wooden garage 20yds from the house is excellent. Not really helped by the incoming phone line being a mile of overhead from the exchange shed in the village.


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