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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9699 on: March 02, 2024, 10:56:19 PM »
Armistice Day?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9698 on: March 02, 2024, 10:42:50 PM »
Martin is correct, it is a Town Hall.  The King reference, I think (although I stand to be corrected) is in connection to the Street name.  But what were they doing?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9697 on: March 02, 2024, 12:56:44 PM »
Found it But will hold off for a while.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9696 on: March 02, 2024, 09:58:16 AM »
Here's me trying to be clever, and discovering that Salmon and Gluckstein Ltd wasn't a local business. :-(  From Wikipedia: "by the turn of the century Salmon and Gluckstein Ltd was the world's largest retail tobacconist, owning 140 retail outlets in 1901"!¹  They were even the finance behind J Lyons & Co Ltd,² of the cakes and coffee shop business.  G&T Rowe furnishing Ironmonger doesn't even get a mention in a search engine.  The banner opposite the ?town hall? balcony mentions "King", so perhaps this is a royal visit, but where I've no idea yet.


¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_%26_Gluckstein
²https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Lyons_and_Co.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9695 on: March 01, 2024, 11:26:46 PM »
Thanks Granarog.  It is a dicey junction as you say.

I do see Sentinel S4 occasionally but not as much.  I think he is busy with work, motorbikes and decorating!

Anyway, where is this.  I would be interested to know why it attracted so many people.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9694 on: March 01, 2024, 03:43:00 PM »
Hill not Road, that makes a difference!  The only Bifrons Road I could find was a cul-de-sac in Patrixbourne.
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  • Roads:                       Turning to Bridge off the A2 southbound, unclassified.
  • Nat Grid:                    TR 18071 55146
  • Nearest Post Code:   CT4 5AE
  • Co-ords (WGS84):     51°15'14"N,001°07'25"E or 51.25376,1.12370

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9693 on: March 01, 2024, 11:58:06 AM »
You have it DaveTheTrain .Actually Bifrons Hill. People come up the sip road at the A2 speed and realise it was too fast when they go straight across the junction. When I used to take the van to Wingham ,picking up veg, for the shop.It was unusual not to see a car in the hedge or wrapped round the sign board. Fast as repairs were carried out another crashed. I think the Temporary barriers are more or less permanent unless things have improved.
Over to you.
PS hows Sentinel these days? Dont see him on here.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9692 on: March 01, 2024, 10:32:38 AM »
Even when you’ve stopped, the sight lines are a bit dodgy. Friend from Thannington calls it Kamikaze Corner 😳
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9691 on: February 29, 2024, 07:54:39 PM »
Aha,  Bifrons Road, Just off the A2, seen it many times on the way to the Zoo.   It can catch you out!!!
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9690 on: February 29, 2024, 09:52:50 AM »
Clue................CT postcode area.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9689 on: February 28, 2024, 11:55:03 AM »
That was my journey to work for around 25 years.  A regular scene was a car buried in the trees.  I'll hold for now - wouldn't be a guess.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9688 on: February 28, 2024, 10:15:40 AM »
I was only there the other day, so I’ll hold fire for now….
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9687 on: February 28, 2024, 09:05:31 AM »
Thanks Beachbum and MartinR for the extra info.

Next one shouldn't last long. Where is this "T" junction that many people have gone straight ahead to their regret.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9686 on: February 27, 2024, 08:37:56 PM »
That "Divine Retreat Centre" piece is being a bit naughty.  "Christian faith was preached in Britain for the first time on the blessed shores of Kent by St. Augustine" is just not true.  Christianity arrived on these shores during the Roman occupation, either quietly before Constantine or officially thereafter (see the chapel at Lullingstone Roman Villa, 4thC).  Now it could be argued that this was the was the British, not the English.  However even that claim is a little difficult.  In Northumbria the Christian tradition remained alongside the incoming Anglo-Saxon paganism which, in part, explains the relative ease of Paulinus' conversion of the area compared to the Augustinian attempts in Kent and the south.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9685 on: February 27, 2024, 07:58:25 PM »