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Offline Diapason

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5772 on: December 16, 2021, 09:24:06 AM »

Your shot in the dark`s a bullseye, John.


Sometimes wrongly spelled "Lawrence".

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5771 on: December 15, 2021, 06:01:31 PM »
A bit of a shot in the dark, as I can’t find decent interior photos, but how about St Laurence at Bapchild?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5770 on: December 15, 2021, 12:28:28 PM »
There isn`t a pipe organ at St. Catherine`s, Kingsdown, only a reed organ in a dreadful state. I believe there is also an old harmonium.


The church in question is very close to the A2.



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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5769 on: December 15, 2021, 11:45:57 AM »
Hope you are right John Walker .
I had considered Kingsdown but there doesn't appear to be any photos of it', Organ.
There isn't any mention of an Organ in any of the historical articles I have found, so I discounted the Church.


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5768 on: December 15, 2021, 11:05:36 AM »
St Catherine's Church, Kingsdown, Kent ?

Offline MartinR

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5767 on: December 15, 2021, 09:20:12 AM »
I stuck "ME9" into Google Maps just to see if it would highlight the correct area, and it does!  What amused me though was that it solemnly draws the boundary up one side of Conyer Creek and down the other, then goes mad out around Stangate and Halstow Creeks.  It excludes Deadmen's Island, but then I suppose not many letters are delivered there!

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5766 on: December 15, 2021, 08:47:34 AM »
Not Oare, John.


I`ve made another error   - I didn`t check the post code ME9 NOT ME10.


Definitely not Faversham but only a few miles away. The name of this church is often mis-spelt. 

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5765 on: December 14, 2021, 08:51:59 PM »
Many of the churches I've searched don't seem to have photos of the organ.  Plenty of naves, altars, and fonts though.  ;D   St Peter's Church, Oare ?

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« Reply #5764 on: December 14, 2021, 08:17:35 PM »
John Walker ,Im'e struggling with this one ,I have run out of churchs in ME10 East of Sittingbourne..
Faversham is ME 13 not ME10 thats next area to search.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5763 on: December 14, 2021, 07:46:13 PM »
A church in Faversham?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5762 on: December 14, 2021, 07:44:36 PM »

John Walker  -  It`s very rare to find two identical pipe organs.


Here's the Appledore church organ - very similar at a quick glance and then I saw the obvious differences  :D .

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5761 on: December 14, 2021, 12:13:53 PM »
Not St. Bartholomew, Bobbing, which is my avatar, granderog. Wrong end of Sittingbourne.


John Walker  -  It`s very rare to find two identical pipe organs.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5760 on: December 14, 2021, 10:51:17 AM »
The nearest I can find is Bobbing, which is similar, but does not Match Diapasons Pic.☺

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5759 on: December 14, 2021, 09:19:02 AM »
Not found it yet. The organ in St Peter and St Paul. Appledore looks of similar design but I can't find a connection.

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« Reply #5758 on: December 13, 2021, 08:55:18 AM »
Yes it is.   ME postcode.


Thanks for the info. MartinR.