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Offline Lutonman

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6550 on: April 26, 2022, 12:14:29 PM »
[size=0px]Gallaher's Blaize Farm Plant  at the end of Quarryman's Lane near Kings Hill west Malling. Less than 30 years old.[/size]

Your correct Grandarog, over to you, that was quick.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6549 on: April 26, 2022, 10:28:55 AM »
@Beachbum
Thanks very much, that does clarify things totally.  Looking at the alignments with Topp's Cafe, the lift and the Royal Victoria Pavillion (Wetherspoons) it looks to be slightly further NE than the current roundabout.  There is a curved feature centered at 100' NE at 51.33233002861004, 1.4240012779674762.  GSV (Aug 2018) shows this as a funfair, but the current satellite view (2022) shows scrub land.  Is this not more likely than the traffic roundabout at 51.33250047522633, 1.4244373818746219?
Anyhow, thanks for the help,Martin
EDIT: On further viewing I think the turntable must have occupied just the NE half of the traffic roundabout and extended into the scrub.  There's no trace left on the satellite view though, so a few yards doesn't matter. M.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6548 on: April 25, 2022, 11:24:14 PM »
For MartinR..............
Please see the location of the Turntable. Now it is a roundabout by Weatherspoons and the New Development.The Lift is still present for reference.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6547 on: April 25, 2022, 03:27:19 PM »
Gallaher's Blaize Farm Plant  at the end of Quarryman's Lane near Kings Hill west Malling. Less than 30 years old.




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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6546 on: April 25, 2022, 02:55:35 PM »
I just thought of large railway junctions and used google earth. My wife's uncle work up there for a number of years.


Going to try a google earth picture. This one is off a main road in West Kent what is the area on the left. Try and name it correctly.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6545 on: April 25, 2022, 01:03:25 PM »
Looks like Hoo Railway junction and Depot
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6544 on: April 25, 2022, 11:48:42 AM »
Looks like Hoo Railway junction and Depot

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6543 on: April 25, 2022, 10:46:06 AM »
Is that the scrub land at TR 38647 64863?
EDIT:  I should have been clearer, is the Ramsgate turntable now the scrub land at TR 38647 64863?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6542 on: April 25, 2022, 09:01:42 AM »
Thanks Beachbum.


I searched all over for Yuma without success.


Next one ..


What and where?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6541 on: April 25, 2022, 07:32:06 AM »
No idea about Yuma.Maybe it was to do with the Mechanical Elephant that used to walk up and down at Margate. The gentle man presumably Yuma certainly looks to be Eastern by his dress.
The Margate Wetherspoons is named after it.The period of the photo would fit.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6540 on: April 24, 2022, 11:50:37 PM »
Spot on JW 8) Please see attached image of the Location.

The mystery is that I have no idea who or what Yuma is, perhaps someone out there will?

Otherwise over to you JW



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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6539 on: April 24, 2022, 10:17:57 PM »
Is that the end of Ramsgate beach station where the turntable was?  Can't find any record of Yuma - was he a circus performer?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6538 on: April 24, 2022, 09:47:03 PM »
Yes JW

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6537 on: April 24, 2022, 09:33:26 PM »
Coastal ?


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #6536 on: April 24, 2022, 09:28:35 PM »
Thanks Lutonman.
Back in the days of local companies that you could deal with a person direct and not a call centre................



Okay, the next one has a clue within. So where and who?