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Offline CAT

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4517 on: 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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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4516 on: May 13, 2021, 01:10:46 PM »
Do you know CAT I believe that it is! Over to you 👍

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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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« 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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« Reply #4513 on: May 12, 2021, 10:18:38 PM »
It was indeed, over to you

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4512 on: May 12, 2021, 07:20:11 PM »
Was it the 'Little Gem' in Aylesford village?

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« Reply #4511 on: May 12, 2021, 06:55:36 PM »
Another dead pub

Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« 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  ;D


Looks like it over to you Pete ...

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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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« Reply #4508 on: May 12, 2021, 08:42:35 AM »
Interesting name, which appears to have been altered from The Bell Inn, which is was known as since at least the mid nineteenth century, to The Bell and Jorrocks between 1961 and 1970. The origin for 'Jorrocks' is: a humorous character in books and magazine stories by R. S. Surtees (180-64). Jorrocks is a London grocer (=owner of a food shop) who loves horse racing and hunting foxes'. One of Surtees major publications was Jorrocks, Jaunts and Jollities (1838).

Could the addition of Jorrocks to the pub name be in recognition of the former village stores that occupied an adjacent building, possibly following the store's closure?

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« Reply #4507 on: May 12, 2021, 08:20:33 AM »
Bell & Jorrocks Frittenden. That grocer clue was a bit obscure!!!!

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4506 on: May 12, 2021, 06:59:09 AM »
One last stab at it!


Could this be one of the pubs at Stone-in-Oxney?





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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4505 on: May 11, 2021, 11:28:53 AM »
If nobody else joins in by this evening, I think you should go for it JohnFilmer  ;D

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4504 on: May 10, 2021, 10:42:56 PM »
Look up one of the dictionary meanings of the second part of the pub name.  (Unless I've got it wrong of course :D )

There is a road to the left of the photo which crosses a tributary of the River Beult after about 1km.


This is a small village with a pub, church, primary school, garage/workshop and a memorial hall.  All strung out along one main road.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4503 on: May 10, 2021, 03:34:13 PM »
Call me thick (and many people do), but that clue lost me JW, and I know the answer! :-\
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