Guess the Place

[CAT]

Riverside?

[shoot999]

Light industrial building (being repaired)?

It's been many things. A store, shop, cafe, part of a private dwelling. And no, not being repaired, more  cladding.




There are and always have been light industrial units within the vicinity.

[CAT]

Light industrial building (being repaired)?

[shoot999]

Thank you KeithG


Its not a too dissimilar view today.

[KeithG]

Yes you have it shoot999....Over to you

No Not Strood John....


Through the arch and down on the right were numerous business places two of which i used one in 1964 for items for my GT200 Lambretta and another in the mid 1970`s they sprayed my Mk11 Lotus Cortina.

[shoot999]

The Cut, Chatham?  If so, from memory two arches were for the fire brigade, one the back entrance to Frank Bannister's motorcycle shop, and the remaining arches were bricked up.

[John Walker]

Would this be one of the many arches under the rail line in Strood?

[KeithG]

Thanks CAT.....recognised the layout as when i moved to Hythe around 2003 that was my journey up to Tesco and on the way back dived in the Pub.


Next one is where might this be and where did it lead to in the 1960`s / 70`s ?

[CAT]

Having looked again, the image must pre-date 1929 as the construction of a small shop/post office on the southern end of the terrace of houses (seen as the white building on KeithG's screen shot) is shown on the 4th Ed OS map, but not on the 3rd Ed OS map. So yes early twentieth-century would fit nicely.

[MartinR]

Thanks.  Looking at it I'd noticed what appears to be a motor tyre track in the foreground, so I was guessing 20thC.  The lamp looks like it is gas, so we are talking after mains gas arrived buit before electric street lighting replaced them, so early 20thC.

[CAT]

Not the precise date MartinR, but it might not be as early as it first looks. The terrace of houses on the right going up the hill were constructed after 1873 (1st Ed. OS), but before 1898 (2nd Ed. OS). The buildings in the right foreground are still shown on the 1938 OS map, but are gone by 1958. At a guess, I would say just pre WWII, but it could be just after?

[MartinR]

Just out of interest CAT, do you know the date of the photo?

[CAT]

It is indeed Horn Street KeithG at a period when going up, or down, was safer to do so.


Over to you

[KeithG]

Sorry to guess again but it's on my mind...
Is this Horn Street Hythe by The Brittania pub?

[CAT]

Sorry for the delay.[/size]KeithG, you are totally correct with the identification of the fountain, though the problem between the two images is that after the first, which i think was taken in the mid 1850's, is that by the close of the nineteenth-century a horse drinking trough was added to it as well as a gas light. The building behind was a private library for many years, but the exposed wall with the bay window became an advertisers dream with the wall being able to be seen from the harbour side and several sizeable hotels close by.Her is my next, but where is this tranquil rural scene?