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Offline Stewie

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4862 on: July 07, 2021, 09:12:46 PM »
Thanks Pete.
One of my occasional forays into the GTP pages, I was going to post something easy but found this one on my laptop to tempt you with. Taken by my son and Visible on GSV.

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« Reply #4861 on: July 07, 2021, 07:50:06 PM »
Spot on Stewie I did the beer & soft drinks instal. Early December, & freezing cold It was briefly the Snooty Fox but there was a pub in London of that name owned by someone with powerful friends (or husband), Legal action was threatened and the name was changed. The area manager forgot to apply for a licence and the pub was opened on occasional licences from , I think, the Poachers Pocket to enable it to trade up to and over Xmas. The same area manager had had the idea of creating a bar for children and this was at the end of the main bar fronting into the kid's play area. We set it up with draught soft drinks, just finished when the Licencing committee arrived for an inspection and pointed out that it was illegal for alcoholic drinks to be served in the sight of children. Soft drinks hastily removed and a partition was put up. The name apparently was for a fox that used to sit on the roadside nearby watching the traffic and locally called the Snooty Fox . Which all goes to prove even brewers can't organise one in a brewery

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4860 on: July 07, 2021, 05:46:09 PM »
The 'Hungry Fox' near the Savacentre ay Hempstead Valley. Formerly the 'Snooty Fox'.

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« Reply #4859 on: July 07, 2021, 04:59:25 PM »
 ;D ;D  Pub !!

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4858 on: July 07, 2021, 04:44:24 PM »
Crematorium?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4857 on: July 07, 2021, 02:46:58 PM »
Thought I recognised it straight away, think I froze my bits off installing the beer & soft drinks while is being converted





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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4856 on: July 07, 2021, 02:27:43 PM »
It is now, or was recently but in the picture was the Gas Showroom, junction of Maidstone Road and Watling Street, Rainham.


I have distinct memories of sitting on the wall waiting for the Pilchers coach to pick up our family for a trip to London on more than one occasion. That was mid fifties, we lived just up Maidstone Road, but left in April 1958.


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4855 on: July 07, 2021, 02:01:47 PM »
Rainham Manor Farm  Beefeater (or was)

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4854 on: July 07, 2021, 12:27:29 PM »
Try Medway JW. As you will have gathered from Grandarog, it’s now an eatery.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4853 on: July 07, 2021, 12:17:00 PM »
Had a Meal there before Covid struck . Will pass for now give others a Chance.


I'll pass as well. Frequented a rockers cafe around the corner from there during the 60s.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4852 on: July 07, 2021, 12:10:09 PM »
Had a Meal there before Covid struck . Will pass for now give others a Chance.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4851 on: July 07, 2021, 12:03:19 PM »
Gravesend?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4850 on: July 07, 2021, 11:37:09 AM »
Thanks JW. That was one of those that I knew, but have never visited - very strange.
This next one has undergone a serious change of use many years ago, but is still recognisable.
It may be instantly spotted by one of the many who are quite local.
North Kent
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4849 on: July 07, 2021, 12:10:51 AM »
You have it JohnFilmer. Well done.  Over to you.


https://www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=3321

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4848 on: July 06, 2021, 08:56:56 PM »
It is a Culpepper memorial in Goudhurst church.
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