Guess the Place

[grandarog]

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.

[John Walker]

Name of pub and where?


(Name on weatherboads cloned out)

[John Walker]

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.


Next one up soon ...

[grandarog]

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. 

[John Walker]

Quick guess.    I can't match it exactly on GSV but it has the look of Stone Street, Cranbrook.

[grandarog]

Here you go for the next one.
One from my Postcards.
Street and Village Names.

Roughly central Kent.

[grandarog]

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.

[johnfilmer]

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 

[John Walker]

Harbour Master's House ?

[grandarog]

Don't know what the building is but it looks like Queenborough old pottery kilns in the background.

[johnfilmer]

I think that this is a nice simple one, but then I know the answer...

[johnfilmer]

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.


I’ll post from the laptop in a while, once “She who thinks she should be obeyed” stops being the Amazon Queen 

[John Walker]

Well done JohnFilmer - Over to you.




Next door to the Cloth House that was one of my earlier GTP's

Hartnup House, Smarden
History:
Dating in part from the 15th century,
Hartnup House is an enchanting
detached property of architectural
interest and historic note and
designated a Grade II* listing. In 1671
the south east wing was added by
Matthew Hartnup, who was
understood to have been the village
apothecary and whose name is
inscribed along with the date on the
bressumer oversail. On either side
are two single petal roses of the
houses of York and Lancaster and
two carved rhinoceros, which had
strong medical associations
throughout Europe by the 17th
century. Indeed, The London
Society of Apothecaries featured
German artist Albrecht Dürer’s
rhinoceros on its crest as early as
1617 and it was believed that vessels
carved from rhino horn had the
ability to detect poisons.
Hartnup House and the beautifully
landscaped garden with the
medieval church of St Michael the
Archangel as a backdrop, has been
in the same ownership for almost 40
years

[MartinR]

Well it's working on my machine and Johnfilmer's suggestion looks to be bang on the nail.  Pending confirmation from John Walker the location is:

• Nat Grid:                   TQ 87925 42334
• Nearest Post Code:  TN27 8QB
• Co-ords (WGS84):    51°08'58"N, 000°41'08"E or 51.14941,0.68554

[johnfilmer]

GSV has fashionably gone on strike on my iPad, so I’ll be a little vague. Is it in Smarden, on Water Lane, River Beult between it and the church?