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CAT
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Reply #4523 on:
May 14, 2021, 09:47:49 AM »
Its not a lock up Pete, though it did have a community function when first constructed as a commemorative structure
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pete.mason
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Reply #4522 on:
May 14, 2021, 08:36:03 AM »
Is the pyramid roof building an old lock up?
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CAT
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May 14, 2021, 08:22:51 AM »
Not a million miles away John Walker, but not south of Ashford and a little further away it being surrounded by the 'Dens'.
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John Walker
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Reply #4520 on:
May 13, 2021, 04:34:28 PM »
This has the feel of some of the roads heading roughly south out of Ashford?
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CAT
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Reply #4519 on:
May 13, 2021, 03:17:22 PM »
There is indeed johnfilmer. Though the trees and hedges along both sides of the road have grown since the picture was taken, the weather boarded house on the left is still there as well as the guide post on the left side of the junction. The most important survival is the small pyramidical roofed structure on the right, which still survives unaltered.
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johnfilmer
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Reply #4518 on:
May 13, 2021, 02:26:32 PM »
Is anything about the picture recognisable on Street view?
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CAT
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May 13, 2021, 01:39:14 PM »
Many thanks Stewie. Not that I'm a train buff, but signal boxes are something quite distinctive.
Here's my next, which is well away from my own stomping ground, but a charming rural scene none the less.
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Stewie
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May 13, 2021, 01:10:46 PM »
Do you know CAT I believe that it is! Over to you 👍
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CAT
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Reply #4515 on:
May 13, 2021, 12:40:12 PM »
Would that be the former signal box from Buckden, which then went to Fleggburgh, Great Yarmouth and now stands over the bridge at Broadwater Lane, Tunbridge Wells on the Spa Valley Line?
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Stewie
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Reply #4514 on:
May 13, 2021, 11:58:25 AM »
Thanks Pete, I used to visit here in the 1980s when it was quite a popular venue. I think it was marketed as the smallest public house in Kent. I don't have much to tease you all with but as a change from churches and pubs I thought perhaps a signal box for change.
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pete.mason
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Reply #4513 on:
May 12, 2021, 10:18:38 PM »
It was indeed, over to you
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Stewie
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Reply #4512 on:
May 12, 2021, 07:20:11 PM »
Was it the 'Little Gem' in Aylesford village?
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pete.mason
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Reply #4511 on:
May 12, 2021, 06:55:36 PM »
Another dead pub
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John Walker
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Reply #4510 on:
May 12, 2021, 10:26:21 AM »
Some interesting information from CAT and Pete - thank you. At least you know I wasn't cracking up with the London Grocer clue
Looks like it over to you Pete ...
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pete.mason
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Reply #4509 on:
May 12, 2021, 08:51:19 AM »
From
http://http://www.thebellandjorrocks.co.uk/Kent-Real-Ale/file/PDF/THE_BELL_HISTORY.pdf
In 1967, Fremlins were taken over by the brewers Whitbread and two years later, in 1969, Dive Bearsby retired as licensee after 65 years and 94 years after his father took over the licence. At this point plans were made to amalgamate the two pubs in the village. The John Jorrocks, formerly The New Inn, was in the tenancy of Phil Oliver. With the amalgamation of the two pubs, the John Jorrocks was closed and The Bell renamed The Bell & Jorrocks with Phil Oliver as the tenant.
The New Inn was renamed "John Jorrocks" in 1948
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