Guess the Place

[CAT]

[Local Hiker]

Bifrons House.
Bifrons, or Janus Bifrons, the two-faced god of the Romans, one of the earliest gods of the Roman pantheon. He was the gatekeeper who looked both ways and was the god of beginnings and endings, and of special significance to soldiers.

https://willturnstone.wordpress.com/tag/bifrons-house/

[John Walker]

I drove past this location recently but I'll hold fire to give other members a chance to join in.

[CAT]

Many thanks John Walker

Apologies for the delay, but work really gets in the way of pleasure sometimes.


As with us all, you can't get enough of a good thing so a quick transfer from the old KHF to here was a must.


My offering is obviously a large country house, sadly no longer standing, but where was it, what's its name and how did it get its name?

[John Walker]

I didn't know you were on here CAT - I would have guessed you would get this one  .


Yes - it's Woods Hardware shop in Dover Street.  You could buy anything thing from peashooters and bags of peas to bunches of fresh mint and sink plugs.  There was a superb display devoted to Woods Shop in Canterbury Museum, Stour Street.  I wonder where all the excellent exhibits are now.  Even the Rupert Bear and Bagpuss displays have been chucked in a single glass case in the Beaney Museum.  Very disappointing 
Over to you CAT

[CAT]

Dover Street, Canterbury? I just remember the hardware shop.

[John Walker]

Time for a clue - my usual hunting ground 

[John Walker]

Thanks Local Hiker.  That looks a great place for a visit.  Not too far from the train station either.


Next one ...   The building still exists.

[Local Hiker]

John Walker, that is correct. The chalk processing factory remains in my photos are to the north of the quarry site.
The quarry south of the B2004 Lower Rainham Road, and the site of the cement works (long cleaed) to the north of the road, including the remains of Rainham Dock on the Medway, are a really interesting walk.


https://friendsofberengrave.btck.co.uk/

[John Walker]

Second guess - The Berengrave Nature Reserve at Rainham?

[Local Hiker]

John Walker, thanks for taking an interest. I know of 2 quarries between Wouldham and Burham.

Margarets Pit has been a private landfill site, used by the the paper mills for as long as I remember, so no public access in 2017. (Now landscaped and no longer a landfill)

Peter's Pit has been a building site for some years, including 2017, so not there either.

I am not aware of any other quarry that meets your description.

My place is in North Kent rather than mid Kent.

[John Walker]

First guess.  The large quarry between Wouldham and Burham?

[Local Hiker]

Thanks Lutonman. The kids and I have fed many ducks and fish (perch?) from the steps just in front of the camera.

This next place was a favourite childhood haunt of mine.

In August 2017, I heard that a model of the place had been made, and it was on display at the local library.
I just had to go and see the model and revisit the place.

Here are a few images I took that day, but where was I?

[Lutonman]

Well done over to you Local Hiker

[Local Hiker]

That would appear to be Capstone Park lake, standing on the south bank, looking north over the duck island.