Guess the Place

[Beachbum]

This is the celebration of Mr Norman Craig MP for the Isle of Thanet joining the House of Commons January 15th 1910. He was involved in the Budget and the Treasury

[grandarog]

Thanks DaveTheTrain,.
        I only found it by locating where the Ironmongers shop was.
        I am still none the wiser .What was the Poll for ? Mayor or General election result or something else? Any idea what year?

Will sort out next guess this evening.

[DaveTheTrain]

Rog has it.  It is the declaration of the poll result, from the old town hall at junction of King, Queen and Harbour Street.

Over to you, Grandarog.

[grandarog]

Its at Ramsgate but haven't a scooby what the occasion was.

[John Walker]

Armistice Day?

[DaveTheTrain]

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?

[grandarog]

Found it But will hold off for a while.

[MartinR]

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.

[DaveTheTrain]

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.
DTT

[MartinR]

Hill not Road, that makes a difference!  The only Bifrons Road I could find was a cul-de-sac in Patrixbourne.
Location:

• 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

[grandarog]

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.

[johnfilmer]

Even when you’ve stopped, the sight lines are a bit dodgy. Friend from Thannington calls it Kamikaze Corner 😳

[DaveTheTrain]

Aha,  Bifrons Road, Just off the A2, seen it many times on the way to the Zoo.   It can catch you out!!!
DTT

[grandarog]

Clue................CT postcode area.

[John Walker]

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.