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Offline Bill Jones

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6857 on: June 30, 2022, 02:09:39 PM »
do not know planB but here is my entry. it is a cottage near where I live (thats a clue for anyone who knows but not BVI).

Offline johnfilmer

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6856 on: June 30, 2022, 01:46:56 PM »
Bill has history of “wandering off”.


Plan B?
Illegitimus nil carborundum

Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6855 on: June 30, 2022, 11:41:02 AM »
I'm just back from a few days away and notice that we seem to have ground to a halt again. 


I presume we're waiting for Bill Jones to put up his photo for us to guess?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6854 on: June 27, 2022, 10:25:48 PM »
As near as I can judge:
  • Nat'l Grid:   TR 24650 38084
  • Post Code: CT18 7HL
  • WGS 84:     51°05'53"N, 001°12'26"E or 51.09803,1.20717
BTW, it's at Capel-le-Ferne.  Putting Capel into Google sends you off into wildest Surrey, miles from the sea!  Of course all you natives probably already knew that.

Offline Beachbum

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6853 on: June 27, 2022, 07:49:00 PM »
Well done Bill Jones 8)
So it is the Magazine for Gun number three at Capel Battery (see site photo below).

The penny finally dropped with the hint  ;)

Offline Bill Jones

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6852 on: June 27, 2022, 01:15:54 PM »
A magazine at capel at folkstone they have this photograph if you go and talk to the men their. A good walk but they sometimes let you in and chat and other times do not!

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6851 on: June 27, 2022, 11:04:58 AM »
Lets try one of the 3 Magazines for the Citadel Battery Dover under construction. :)

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6850 on: June 27, 2022, 07:53:04 AM »
"Magazine" - very good.  Something that you might read indeed.  So is John's guess of the Dover Cliffs area near the mark?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6849 on: June 27, 2022, 07:12:53 AM »
Chain Home Station Foundations.


Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6848 on: June 27, 2022, 04:47:41 AM »
Underground magazine? Dover Cliffs area..

Offline Beachbum

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6847 on: June 27, 2022, 12:08:58 AM »
Not the Radar Towers or Acoustic Stations.


It is something you might read..............

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6846 on: June 26, 2022, 11:02:51 PM »
John, the date on the photo is 7/8/41, so not cold war, instead a very hot one.  I wondered about the acoustic stations, but the terrain is all wrong.

Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6845 on: June 26, 2022, 10:15:25 PM »
So, not the radar towers above Dover then.
Underground bunkers during the Cold War?

Offline Beachbum

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6844 on: June 26, 2022, 08:34:04 PM »
It is one of three.............

Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6843 on: June 26, 2022, 05:17:45 PM »
Is this the foundations for one of four?