Guess the Place

[johnfilmer]

From the wreathes I presume a war memorial, but is it a group (eg village) or for a single event such as a plane crash site?

[John Walker]

Thanks Johnfilmer


I hope a few more will join in on this one. 


(Don't forget, if you make a guess and you are correct, you then need to put a photo of your own up for the rest of us to guess   [size=78%])[/size]

[johnfilmer]

You have it JW, Newnham Street.


We have had the church a couple of times on GTP, and I was sampling the menu at the George only last Wednesday. Homemade steak and kidney pudding anyone?


I nearly got caught out as I went off to do a couple of errands and the light was fading fast, so went to one of the nearest old post offices that I knew in my vicinity to get the photo.


Over to you.

[John Walker]

The Street, Newnham, nr Faversham ?


Amazing how your clues painted a picture in my mind of the location.  I thought it was Doddington at first but then remembered the church there was very different.

[johnfilmer]

Not Hartlip JW.


It is south of M2.


Remember that the nearby church has a spire, and the pub is almost opposite the church.


Historic house at top of lane opposite old PO, on hill overlooking valley where village sits.

[John Walker]

Hartlip area?

[johnfilmer]

Not Marden JW. I may have misled you with “mid Kent”, as although mid in the sense of east west, it is north of M20.

[John Walker]

Marden area?

[johnfilmer]

Sorry, I forgot to say, Mid Kent.

[johnfilmer]

Decent, still open, pub serving excellent food, and church close nearby (spire visible over roof of house).

[johnfilmer]

We have done Dead Pubs a lot, but there are many on-line listings of pubs dead and alive, so I wondered what else has been disappearing. Little local petrol stations was one thought, but these are often redeveloped beyond recognition.
So... Old Post Offices.
Could be a rich seam for us to mine 
Try this one, closed 1998.

[John Walker]

I think it is an optical illusion .My photo was taken from roughly between the red Vehicles in Johns picture and the dark coloured block in the foreground. My photo shows the last 5 roof lights at the left.

Just a point of interest.   I've just checked on Google Earth and the window arrangement has the two ' blocks of three' as per your photo if you go back a few years.  It looks like the windows were there but had been blocked out.  Also, the roof doesn't look in such good condition in 2013 so it does look like it'd been re-roofed/re-painted at some point between 2013 and current times.

[johnfilmer]

Ah, the camera never lies 
My problems loading (borrowing) GSV images persists, despite, or because of, my best efforts to resolve it.
I have a suitable idea, but will therefore go and actually take a photo in daylight tomorrow. Will be a good excuse for a jaunt out and about, which have been few and far between over the last 18months.
Excellent idea to do the circle back around to Headcorn grandarog, I would do another around there if only I could think of an obscure clue to keep you on your toes.
I'll be back...

[grandarog]

I think it is an optical illusion .My photo was taken from roughly between the red Vehicles in Johns picture and the dark coloured block in the foreground. My photo shows the last 5 roof lights at the left.

[John Walker]

This one threw me.  I looked at Headcorn Hanger and the current roof window arrangement seems different.  In Grandrog's photo there appears to be a block of three windows then a gap followed by another block of three.  If you look at the current Google view the arrangement is different.  Has it been re-roofed at some point? - or perhaps I can't count