Guess the Place

[Johnnie Walker]

Found it but I'll hold for now as I've had a few GTPs lately.

[johnfilmer]

West(ish) of Maidstone

[Johnnie Walker]

This one rings a bell but not sure why.  Are we looking south west of Ashford?

[johnfilmer]

Very distinctive village church just along the Street.

[johnfilmer]

That double arch is almost identical to the Charing entrance. Who copied who...

Meanwhile here is my latest. It is a GSV from 2009, the garage sign is still there but it is now a house, so can be seen on current GSV.

Village High Street, long ago bypassed. The garage used to be home to a gearbox repairer, I used him in about 1974 to check over a Ford Mexico gearbox, and again in about 2001 to refurb a Sierra gearbox and final drive. Closed shortly after that, then reopened as the motorbike garage in the photo.

[Johnnie Walker]

You have it JohnFilmer.  I thought it might last a bit longer.  I don't know a lot about the place though.  I believe it's called College of All Saints.

51.270369858120986, 0.5220504557673578


Over to you ...

[johnfilmer]

The Old College, which I mixed up with the palace, as this where I took my son for guitar lessons, and it was always referred to as the palace. However the adjacent College Road & Avenue gives me a clue….

The view is off The Horseway

[Johnnie Walker]

Archbishop’s Palace, Maidstone?

Not there, but closer...

[johnfilmer]

Archbishop’s Palace, Maidstone?

[Johnnie Walker]

Archbishop’s Palace, Charing?

Not there JohnFilmer.   Not far from a river and two churches.

[johnfilmer]

Archbishop’s Palace, Charing?

[Johnnie Walker]

Next one ..

Where and what ?

[Beachbum]

It is indeed Samphire Hoe 

[Johnnie Walker]

Thanks Beachbum

It seems mad to mine so close to the sea, but they managed it to some degree.  Going by the photo, it looks like it's the site of the current Samphire Hoe.

Next one up later...

[Beachbum]

Well done Johnnie Walker. This was the first Coalmine in Kent, Shakespeare Colliery 1896.

In January 1843 the South Eastern Railway Company gunpowdered the unstable Cliffs and the spoil was flattened as a base for the Railway Line (the chalk was too unstable to Tunnel through).

In 1881 a shaft was sunk for the Channel Tunnel at this site, but work stopped in case it was used for invasion.

June 1896 sees the first shaft sunk by the Kent Coalfields Syndicate Ltd, but they hit underground water at 303ft. November 1897 a second shaft was sunk and again flooded at 303ft, sadly eight workers drowned. 1902 sees cast iron tubes installed to prevent flooding and Coal was found the following year. By 1907 eight tonnes a day of Coal was produced, but not finacially viable.The colliery was closed in 1909 and placed in the hands of the receiver. Work commenced again in 1910 but it finally closed in 1915 and was sold for scrap in 1918.