Guess the Place

[KeithG]

Is that by Samphire Hoe?

[John Walker]

Next one


What and Where ?

[John Walker]

MartinR's info on the church raises a point that I have wondered about before. The very nature of Guess the Place often means that we learn more about our chosen targets. At what point should we then take this info and start a thread in the appropriate part of the forum?
I will post about the Herne Bay home when I can resolve a couple of points with my siblings, and better gauge the date. The strange Memorial Hall on Benenden Green is another possible subject
Views/comments?

A good idea JohnFilmer.  I have learned a lot from the GTP entries over the years.  Perhaps, if either the person putting the GTP up or one of the Guessers, knows further points of interest then a new thread could be started as you have already done with the church GTP.


JW

[John Walker]

Thanks DTT


Best photo I've seen of that area.



Nearly 60 years ago I would have been riding my Royal Enfield down that road ready to start my shift on Number One Machine at Chartham Paper Mill.

As you say, the view has changed very little.


Next one up later ...

[DaveTheTrain]

Well done JW, it is Chartham.   And importantly it does not look very different today,


Over to you..
DTT

[John Walker]

That photo has the look of Chartham Village.  Church on the left and a signal box in the distance which I believe still exists?

[Invicta Alec]

Dunno where it is, but what a fabulous photo!


Alec.

[DaveTheTrain]

Thanks Keith.  Ah, I can see the arrangement of the road now.   What a cracking photo.


Here is mine.  The view is very similar today.  The row of cottages have gone, but everything else remains pretty much the same.

[KeithG]

You are correct shoot999 as i used the other photo looking up Old Road on the old forum as a guess the place.

[shoot999]

Thought I recognised the pub and the street, as I have a pic taken of the houses from a different angle. Then thought no, whats the chances of two pics floating around of a back street from the same period?     I see if I can find it.

[KeithG]

Although i didn't ask for the pubs name or even a pub you did get it correct so i will give the guess to you as you now know the area.
You don't have the geography correct though as this is Old Road which is behind the main A2 and runs roughly parallel to it.


The reason learners used the small car park was because the Chatham Driving Test Centre was around the corner on the main road..... I used this in 1966 when visiting for my car test.
The camera is where the red marker is and you can see the pub on the main road at the junction of Old Road.

By the way the building on it's own opposite on the main road was the Lord Duncan pub

Over to you

[DaveTheTrain]

Got it.  Its the Ropemakers Arms on the Main A2 as you come into New Road.  The buildings in the foreground are where the Grahams Office Furniture Shop now is.


I had confused it with the Halfway on Magpie Hall Road, which has a similar corner detail.

[KeithG]

DaveTheTrain..... You noticed the pub which was a very well known one in its great day's, not a pub now!


But it is not Constitution Road.


The buildings were demolished and a small car park used to be in their place and mainly used by learner drivers??

[DaveTheTrain]

I think the main road is Chatham Hill, and this is Constitution Road, but I cannot place the pub. 

[KeithG]

There is a main A road nearby.