Guess the Place

[Diapason]

Well guessed CAT.


Picture taken last year on my first visit to Minster, my father`s birthplace and where my grandfather was engineer at the Minster Laundry.


The old Laundry.

[CAT]

Sorry, should have said the former 'The White Horse', as I think it's now closed?

[CAT]

Sorry John Walker, I think I'm going to snatch it from you?

The White Horse, Church Street, Minster (Thanet). If correct, its a bit crafty as its been blanked out on Google Streetview.

[John Walker]

If there haven't been any further guesses by this evening, I'll put my guess in to keep things moving.

[Diapason]

Wrong Abbey!

[MartinR]

Abbey makes me think of Minster-in-Sheppey, but that's only a guess.

[John Walker]

I should have got this one straight away - I lived 3 minutes walk from it a few year ago!!!
I won't put a 'guess' forward as it wouldn't be a Guess

[Diapason]

Yes, I agree! But unfortunately it isn`t Sandwich.

Close to a large church and an abbey. (That should give it away).

[John Walker]

That has a look of Sandwich ...

[Diapason]

Next offering, with a very tenuous connection with the previous GTP photo.

[MartinR]

There's more about the bells here: http://kent.lovesguide.com/tower.php?id=135  Number 3, 5 and 6 (tenor) are the original 1663 bells, so (discounting a bit of retuning to 5 and 6) you are hearing the same sound as rang out 350 years ago.

[Local Hiker]

Diapason, you have guessed the place correctly. The Abbey Church of St Mary and St Sexburga in Minster on Sea, (not Minster Ramsgate).
The old meets the new with the modern rectory and function room in the car park on the left.
This site says more than I can. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1273489
I can hear the bells from my garden.


Over to you.

[Diapason]

Minster Abbey?

[Local Hiker]

Thanks johnfilmer. I am very familiar with the pumping station; it is quite a striking building. I was not aware that it was flats.

I have some photos somehere, but cannot find them on my PC. The riverside path (Medway north bank) was closed for a while a few years ago, and the diversion took you onto Forstal Road and right passed it.

I have no recollection of the specific building in your GTP photo; I note that the whole area has been bulldozed and is being re-developed.


Back to churches. Where is this?

[johnfilmer]

Well done Local Hiker. It was Phoenix House, Forstal Road, at the time home to the Dixonheat Group.


The pumping station still has a row of accumulators along the road frontage.


I left in 1984 to strike out on my own.


Over to you