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Offline Stewie

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9561 on: February 03, 2024, 02:38:59 PM »
Not Whitstable Martin R, head towards London

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9560 on: February 03, 2024, 02:34:09 PM »
Whitstable?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9559 on: February 03, 2024, 01:01:01 PM »
Not Faversham, Johnfilmer but you’re heading in the right direction, the building is no longer there and has been replaced by a housing development 🤓👍

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9558 on: February 03, 2024, 12:28:06 PM »
Faversham?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9557 on: February 03, 2024, 08:08:13 AM »
Not Dover JohnWalker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9556 on: February 03, 2024, 12:10:38 AM »
Dover Docks?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9555 on: February 02, 2024, 10:07:34 PM »
Not Strood Martin R, the building was built by the London, Chatham & Dover Railway.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9554 on: February 02, 2024, 09:51:06 PM »
Strood?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9553 on: February 02, 2024, 09:35:50 PM »
Not Ashford grandarog

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9552 on: February 02, 2024, 09:24:02 PM »
The old Engine maintenance yard at Ashford?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9551 on: February 02, 2024, 08:56:04 PM »
It has most definitely a railway connection Johnwalker, you can just make out the wooden platform I was standing on.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9550 on: February 02, 2024, 07:28:37 PM »
Railway connection?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9549 on: February 02, 2024, 04:12:41 PM »
OK, so when I took the picture the building was mostly derelict but parts of it (the office), were still in use. The shape of the doors gives an insight into what the buildings purpose was, which will help towards its location.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9548 on: February 01, 2024, 05:16:08 PM »
Thanks for that information CAT, I have an interest in the fortifications around the Medway but also further afield. At the recent January members meeting at the Chatham Historical Society, I gave a short talk on Fort Luton which I will upload to this site later.
I have had a look through some old scanned photos I took in the early 1980's and have found this one for the next GTP.
So where was I when I took this with my Olympus Trip camera.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9547 on: February 01, 2024, 03:48:38 PM »
Thanks folks.  Rather than Google I use DuckDuckGo which is more secure, but in this case yielded no hits.  I followed the link to Google Maps from the WP page and it now does mention the guns: "Dover Turret (80 ton guns) temporarily closed", and it is where GSV labels the Dover fishing pier.