Guess the Place

[johnfilmer]

Was the photo taken from a church tower?

[castle261]

Thank you Dave The Train -- you have solved a puzzle with your map of Cliffs End Hall.
I have been trying to find out about it for a long time.
It was the residence of the` Scale`s family `  ---  I went there before the war, as a boy.

[John Walker]

Thanks Dave


I wasn't certain but I would have driven past it many times in the 60s.  It must have left an imprint in my memory.


Next one ....

[DaveTheTrain]

Well done, John.  You have it.   It is here on this 1963 map, if the link works.  You will need to zoom out a couple of times if you are not a subscriber, but the detail is good enough.  I lived not far from here, in the 1980s but I think it may have been gone by then.


https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/634568/163881/12/100954



Over to you.
Dave

[John Walker]

It looks coastal ?  Makes me think of where the Jet filling station is on the Sandwich Road, Cliffsend?

[DaveTheTrain]

Thanks Shoot999.  I like your earlier photos taken before they were removed.  I have always liked the Strand having spent many happy hours there.


Next one, no clues just yet...

[shoot999]

It is the entrance to the Strand, at Gillingham Green.  I think it stood approximately where the sailing club yard now is.  Francis Frith has a photo of it from 1955 which makes interesting viewing.
DTT

You have it Dave This was taken just weeks before it was demolished and I've included the more obvious view towards the entrance to the Strand that was taken at the same time; as well as the tradition view in its heyday.  And although now a car park opposite it was for years the paddling pool and boating lake.


Ive lived in Cornwall for 40 years and my kids and their kids are surrounded by the best beaches, etc that you could wish for. Yet whenever we visit Kent its the same refrain 'can we go to the Strand!'  My mother used to go their as a kid in the 1920s; me in the 50s, and nearly a century later my grandkids will be going next year in the 2020s.   

[shoot999]

Buxton Park ?

Not heard of that John, but you were mighty close with Medway Park

[DaveTheTrain]

It is the entrance to the Strand, at Gillingham Green.  I think it stood approximately where the sailing club yard now is.  Francis Frith has a photo of it from 1955 which makes interesting viewing.
DTT

[John Walker]

Buxton Park ?

[shoot999]

Are we looking for a swimming pool, like Medway Park?  People in and out ?

One of the many things there is a pool

[John Walker]

Are we looking for a swimming pool, like Medway Park?  People in and out ?

[shoot999]

Not the Brook, you must have taken a wrong turning from Brompton. Go the other way.


And you are right about a car park, although only recently. To most of us it was something  a bit more fun then that back in the day.

[castle261]

Old Job Centre at the Brook in Chatham   ( people going in & out --- new car park--- on the right )

[shoot999]

Is it the old NAAFI shop Brompton.

No, but your getting closer to the destination. Once you saw this on your right, and the ? on your left, you knew you had arrived.