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Offline MartinR

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1584 on: April 19, 2020, 10:18:02 PM »
No no no, yesNo
It's not a well and it's not in Deal.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1583 on: April 19, 2020, 09:51:14 PM »
Well well well a hole in the ground. :)
 Is that looking down the one in Deal Castle?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1582 on: April 19, 2020, 08:56:49 PM »
This might go quickly, we have some experts on the forum, or else it will cause a bit of head scratching.  Clue tomorrow morning if no-one asks questions or gets it.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1581 on: April 19, 2020, 08:15:01 PM »
That's the place MartinR  :) .  The house was lost in the blitz.  A modern building replaced it.   In the 60s/70s it was an art shop with a technical division on the first floor where blueprints were produced for local companies.  It's now a charity shop.  The plaque is next to the shop door.

The big Wetherspoon pub opposite is named after Thomas Ingoldsby.

Richard Harris Barham was born in Canterbury. When he was seven years old his father died, leaving him a small estate, part of which was the manor of Tappington, in Denton, Kent, mentioned so frequently in his later publication The Ingoldsby Legends


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Offline MartinR

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1580 on: April 19, 2020, 06:06:00 PM »
Cancer Research Shop, 61, Burgate, Canterbury.  Birthplace of Richard Barham, pen name Thomas Ingoldsby.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1579 on: April 19, 2020, 05:48:43 PM »
Is the building where his birthplace was where his home "roughly midway between Folkestone and Canterbury" was, or are you laying a red herring for us?
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1578 on: April 19, 2020, 05:32:57 PM »
Not Austen, Bates or Thackeray :(


One of his homes was roughly midway between Folkestone and Canterbury.


The plaque is on the building that now stands where his birthplace was.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1577 on: April 19, 2020, 04:07:07 PM »
Edward Austen?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1576 on: April 19, 2020, 03:43:11 PM »
H. E. Bates, Canterbury?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1575 on: April 19, 2020, 03:26:17 PM »
Thackeray?  Another long shot I'm afraid.
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1574 on: April 19, 2020, 02:02:11 PM »
Lived on the Kent Downs at one time.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1573 on: April 19, 2020, 10:54:43 AM »
A novelist.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1572 on: April 19, 2020, 12:47:38 AM »
Not Beaney or the institute.   


East Kent.


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1571 on: April 18, 2020, 05:34:37 PM »
Long shot: Beaney at the eponymous institute?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1570 on: April 18, 2020, 03:59:43 PM »
Thank you MartinR


When it was Quine's Diner in the early 70s, it was run by David Quine and his late wife Mary.  David is now living in America.  They lived a couple of doors up from my music shop - Socodi Music Ltd.


They were ahead of their time with the set up there.  Large burger based meals and progressive rock music playing loud through a good sound system.  Always busy.


https://www.thefoundrycanterbury.co.uk/our-history/


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