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Offline Dave Smith

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4564 on: May 22, 2021, 05:36:11 PM »
As an aside, would that have been Lenham Sanitorium? Visible from the A20. I remember that that one was for TB patients & the standard "treatment"- before antibiotics- was lots of fresh air; so rooms opened out onto the balconies &, when it wasn't raining, all was open wide, even in Winter!
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4563 on: May 22, 2021, 04:03:37 PM »
Thanks JohnFilmer


It's certainly out of the way so ideal as an isolation/infectious hospital.  I enjoyed the search for that one but needed your clues.


Next one.


This might be difficult but one of you might know it.  It does appear in one position on Google maps.
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« Reply #4562 on: May 22, 2021, 03:18:20 PM »
The OS maps of the period variously describe it as "Infectious Hospital", and later as "Isolation Hospital".
Unused since the fifties, I think, it was part converted to housing, but now is fully converted as Harpswood.
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4561 on: May 22, 2021, 02:11:22 PM »
Hospital Road, roughly east of Hollingbourne.  Possibly an isolation hospital?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4560 on: May 22, 2021, 01:41:58 PM »
It is, JW, and a specific type of one. No longer marked as such on current maps, but consistently on older ones.
Now, where is it? The road name may be your best clue. Mid Kent, (and to recap, North of M20) between two railway lines of very different eras.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4559 on: May 22, 2021, 12:36:05 PM »
Hospital?
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« Reply #4558 on: May 22, 2021, 10:27:01 AM »
Railways nearby
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4557 on: May 22, 2021, 08:32:12 AM »
Not a Workhouse, Pete. That was a mile or so away on the main road, not tucked away up a narrow lane.
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« Reply #4556 on: May 22, 2021, 08:21:44 AM »
Workhouse?
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« Reply #4555 on: May 22, 2021, 08:04:30 AM »
Not quite JW.


The road name should lead you to where it is.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4554 on: May 21, 2021, 11:11:21 PM »
Convalescence Home?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4553 on: May 21, 2021, 06:51:59 PM »
Not a school.


Allegedly built about 1900, but already on maps of 1895.


The road (lane actually) is named for the buildings general function.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4552 on: May 21, 2021, 06:43:02 PM »
A school?
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« Reply #4551 on: May 21, 2021, 02:17:50 PM »
My head for heights is limited to about two rungs up a ladder, and then it's hang on with both hands.
What was this building originally, it was being refurbished at the time of street view's visit. I will get out more in future...
North of M20
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Offline Diapason

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4550 on: May 21, 2021, 01:49:49 PM »
Yes, I know this church quite well. The day I climbed the tower was when I realised I`d `lost my head for heights`.
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