Guess the Place

[DaveTheTrain]

A seasonal offering.   

[DaveTheTrain]

Thanks Martin, that is very good of you.  I have one, and shall load it up when at home tonight (not allowed to upload from works laptop).

Thanks
DTT

[MartinR]

Dave, I just took Sutton Valance on the map, headed due north and suggested Rainham as a starting point.  Hardly the right answer!  If you've a problem finding a suitable image however, let me know and I'll step in as your "second".

[DaveTheTrain]

i think looking back at the thread Martin got there first, Martin would you like to take it?  You had the right answer before me.
Dave

[John Walker]

Well done on your 1000th post JohnFilmer  Number four in the top posters hall of fame

[johnfilmer]

Near enough for me, the two shops are now housing.

There used to be a wide range of shops along The Banks, that I knew that stretch of High Street as. I  went to a barber somewhere along there in the 60s.

Over to you DTT.

Edit just noticed that this is my 1000 post!!

[DaveTheTrain]

124 High Street, Rainham.  Next door to PHC Home care. The buildings along that row are in a poor state.
DTT

[johnfilmer]

That’s the village, but where?

[MartinR]

Rainham area?

[johnfilmer]

I thought grandarog might get there PDQ.

Move north JW

[John Walker]

Quick guess - Sutton Valence?

[grandarog]

I will pass on this one.
 The steps are still there, with railings nearly as old as the photo.

[johnfilmer]

Interesting, Proper History. I do wonder if there has been a comparable event to the dissolution of the monastries in this country. The upheaval was huge.

Meanwhile a simple couple of shops, but where? Photo from 1980s I believe.

[MartinR]

I clicked on "Reply" and was informed that someone else had posted, so here is just a little supplementary information.  The search map from Historic England marks the site with the legend "Hospital (site of)".  More interestingly though, the garden wall you showed is listed grade II: " Part of the Mediaeval flint wall of St Lawrence's Priory. 6 ft high built of flint and reused masonry. Brick coping. Pointed arch with stone keystones to No 136". https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1260530?section=official-list-entry.

Thanks for the good wishes, I should be good for at least a year yet, and if I'm really lucky I might make my three score years and ten in 3 years time.  Just at the moment though the treatment each 4 weeks gives me extreme tiredness for a few days amongst other symptoms, so please excuse me being late to respond on occasion.

[John Walker]

You have it JohnFilmer.      Over to you.

Info from the Historic Canterbury website,
The wall is the remains of St. Lawrence House, or hospital, built in the reign of Stephen, by one of the abbots of St. Augustine's Monastery; it was abolished in the time of Mary, - on the pier of an old gateway is a half obliterated representation of St. Lawrence on a gridiron, attended by two men. 1838 directory

The hospital was founded by Hugh the Abbot of St. Augustine's in 1137, and he granted it 21 acres of land in Canterbury, as well as land in Chislet and in Sturry, it also had one mill.

Hamo, Lord Marourd, Blen, Lavington, Estrusted, Biersted, now called Brasted, Nettlested, Ditton, and other lands in the county of Kent was sheriff of that county at the time of the general survey, made by order of William the Conqueror, and entered in Doomsday-book, which is still preserved in the Exchequer. He continued sheriff to the middle of the reign of King Henry I. for in the year 1111, Hugh, Abbot of St. Augustine's, granted Bodesham and Smetheham to Hamo, and at the same time Hamo made a grant of other lands, in the town of Fordwich to the said Abbey. The records of Christ Church, Canterbury, and the deeds of the hospital of St. Laurence, prove, that one of the name of Hamo held the lands above-mentioned in the reigns of King Richard II. and King John.


(March 21, 1520) *from the will of Dame Elizabeth THURSTON of London, widow, late wife of Sir John Thurston, knight, citizen and alderman of London, deceased (formerly wife of Thomas Wymond). ....To Dame Amy my daughter, priores of St. Laurence in Canterbury, xlli. To buy lands for their sisterhood xxli. To the said Dame Amy a fetherbed, etc., brass and pewter set aside for her in a baskett, also a blak gowne furred with mynks, and a kirtell of chamlett, my bed in the chapel chamber with sparn of silke, etc.

http://www.machadoink.com/St%20Lawrences%20Hospital.htm