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Offline grandarog

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5067 on: August 10, 2021, 06:07:09 PM »
Thats the Horsmonden War Memorial.


Quote "The Institute is a property that was gifted to the parish by the trustees of John Francis Austen late of Capel Manor in November 1891 for purpose as a War Memorial and for the use for the benefit of the inhabitants of the parish of Horsmonden.[/size]It was originally built as a Workingmen’s Reading Room and Institute by J. F. Austen Esq.A Turret and Clock were added in 1887 by public subscription to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, and presented to the Village.The cost of the Clock supplied by J. W. Benson of London was £65.6.6. and this original clock is still in working order.[/color]
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Offline Dave Smith

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5066 on: August 10, 2021, 06:00:09 PM »
castle261. My school was evacuated from Gillingham to Herne Bay for the first year of WW2. As the Medway Towns were deemed a probable target for the German bombing to come, it was essential to get children away, even as short a distance as Newington. johnfilmer. Your mention of the Tuck Inn brought back memories of the late 40's/early 50's when it was the venue for all the Cycle Clubs out on their Sunday "Club Run", to meet up for a cupper'. Besides local Cubs, sometimes one of the London Clubs-Ealing Manor come to mind. Was it like that when you lived there?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5065 on: August 10, 2021, 01:57:28 PM »
Gypsy suggests Paddock Wood?
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5064 on: August 10, 2021, 01:24:14 PM »
Quote from: Pete on August 10, 2021, 10:34:24 AM
Hawkhurst area?
Head roughly NW Pete
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« Reply #5063 on: August 10, 2021, 10:34:24 AM »
Hawkhurst area?
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5062 on: August 10, 2021, 10:17:30 AM »
Gypsy get-together
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5061 on: August 09, 2021, 08:01:48 PM »
Roughly Mid-Kent
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5060 on: August 09, 2021, 12:08:52 AM »
Next one - shouldn't be too difficult.
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Offline MartinR

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5059 on: August 08, 2021, 10:17:03 PM »
Oh is that what the slab of concrete is?  I thought it was a BT router!  Lift up thine eyes and behold a nicely executed four course quarter circle arch with string course above at rail level topped with a stone parapet and flanked with pilasters, stepped in at the string course and topped with a raised parapet.
And if that's not making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, I don't know what is!
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5058 on: August 08, 2021, 09:16:21 PM »
Yes, with the pumping station in the foreground, behind the chain-link fence  ;D
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5057 on: August 08, 2021, 06:35:57 PM »
Odd.  I get a nice brick bridge under the railway line, opposite 17 Wickham Close.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5056 on: August 08, 2021, 04:03:13 PM »
Followed MartinR's google link and a lovely picture of a Southern Water Sewage Pumping Station comes up.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5055 on: August 08, 2021, 02:59:01 PM »
Thank you JohnFilmer.  After quite a search that section seemed to be the only place where rail and road ran parallel East West.

I must admit that I quite like your old map searches. 




Next one ...  shouldn't prove too difficult - coming up soon.
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5054 on: August 08, 2021, 02:54:45 PM »
Quote from: castle261 on August 08, 2021, 10:57:01 AM
I had a strange experience when I put my cursor on NORTH DOWN - in your article John Walker.
When it came on - I looked at it - & my head went swimming - I could not focus - I had to come
away from my computer - leaving it on. I was a bad expirience.


Sorry to hear that Castle261.  It normally just takes you to a Wikipedia page about the North Downs.  Hope you are ok now.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5053 on: August 08, 2021, 12:11:56 PM »
Castle261, well Newington was the centre of the known universe, when I was 8 :)
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