Guess the Place

[shoot999]

Was the road bypassed part of the old A2?

[KeithG]

Ok...not a water pumping station but a Chapel or Mission Hall.
It is not named after the road it was in but after the area it resides in?

[John Walker]

The main part of the building looks like a water board pumping station ?  No idea where though.

[KeithG]

Was Texaco garage nearby...

[KeithG]

Outer?

[shoot999]

I'm sure you are expecting this question.


Medway Towns?


 

[KeithG]

That is OK... always get your picture first?

[Hodge]

Ah-ha! Yes, I know where this is but as I don't have a pic to post I'll leave it for someone who does!
(I'm sure you all won't want to wait for me while I sort through a big box of old photographs.....)

[KeithG]

Yes it was Hodge...

[Hodge]

Was this on a main thoroughfare which has now been bypassed?

[KeithG]

Thanks Smiffy...


I knew this one as then my local Catholic Church was the English Martyrs on Frindsbury Hill and this Dode Church comes under their jurisdiction and to keep it open has to say Mass once a year and i did go a couple of times ...supposedly at the time in around 1971 it was the smallest church in England and i do remember it in a more woody area so perhaps it is all done up like the picture shows.


Next one where was this?

[Smiffy]

Yes, got it in one, I thought it might have been a bit easy. Known once as Dowde's Church (Dudes cirice), the village itself was practically wiped out during the great plague in the 14th century. Although parts date back to Norman times it was extensively restored in 1905-06.

Your turn again...

[KeithG]

Isn`t that Dode Church ?

[Smiffy]

Possibly a fashion thing - remember stone cladding in the 70's?

This might be a bit too easy for some. It has an interesting, and you could say quite tragic, history though.

[KeithG]

Sorry shoot999 but Smiffy has it...


Yes it is where you say opposite the old cinema when it was there?... and you can see Naylar & Son Funeral Directors further along on the angle and just about the Red Lion Pub.


Don`t know what year but now compare with the second photo from 1948 and the end house and next but one have Tudor Style updates... I wonder why?


Over to you then Smiffy...