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Offline shoot999

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5649 on: November 18, 2021, 08:48:11 PM »
Ash's supplied around 70 pubs mainly in the North Eastern corner of Kent. Would that be the right area to search?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5648 on: November 18, 2021, 08:21:54 PM »
Maybe too obvious, but "Ash's Canterbury Ales and Stout" - would we be in Canterbury or its environs?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5647 on: November 18, 2021, 07:13:43 PM »
Rochester?

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Offline johnfilmer

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5646 on: November 18, 2021, 06:03:46 PM »
Martin, I'm pleased that the brickwork isn't as Google would have you believe! The camera never lies...
I'm a bit short of suitable photos and still cannot take streetview screenshots. However I remembered this from my Ancestry research, suitably doctored to remove the blindingly obvious clues - sorry I can't draw straight lines with a mouse, or blend colours.
Some one may get this straight away, or not. It does not look like this now, this was 1910.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5645 on: November 18, 2021, 04:34:23 PM »
Found it at last!  It's in Clearwater Mews.  I see what you mean about the brick courses, but I think that's just Google stitching photos together.  The link JW posted shows rather more rational brickwork, click on photo 7 to enlarge it.  For anyone trying to find it, and who needs a bit more help than "just off Stour Street", I've dug out the following locators:
  • Address: 47 Stour Street CT1 2LZ (but note that on GSV you need to go into the Mews).
  • Grid ref: TR 14599 57625
  • WGS84: 51°16'38"N 001°04'32"E
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5644 on: November 18, 2021, 01:05:16 PM »
You have it JohnFilmer.  The office for St Mildred's Tannery.  Not sure why it's now been re-named The Old Rectory.  Perhaps it was previously the rectory for the nearby St Mildred's Church. 


The whole of Canterbury would share the rather unpleasant aroma from the tannery right through to the 70s.  My father worked there after the war.  I always knew when he had arrived home.  The aroma must have got into his skin.  I didn't bother me though.  It was just Dad.  It was good when he later got a job at Lucas CAV  in Rochester.  He didn't smell of dead cows anymore.


The whole area of the tannery is now residential.


History of the tannery in this link.



http://www.canterbury-archaeology.org.uk/tannery/4590809563


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« Reply #5643 on: November 18, 2021, 10:53:49 AM »
It looks as though the office for Connolly Leather has morphed into The Old Rectory, just off Stour Street. "Interesting" brick courses!
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5642 on: November 17, 2021, 08:47:31 PM »
A Scottish comedian might help you.
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5641 on: November 17, 2021, 04:25:43 PM »
The product was very prestigious.
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5640 on: November 17, 2021, 09:57:38 AM »
Quote from: johnfilmer on November 17, 2021, 09:44:47 AM
Canterbury?


Yes - it's Canterbury.  Should be fairly easy now  :)
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Offline johnfilmer

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5639 on: November 17, 2021, 09:44:47 AM »
Canterbury?
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5638 on: November 16, 2021, 10:55:24 PM »
The business that is was the office for closed some years back.  The business had been in existence for around 200 years.
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Offline John Walker

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« Reply #5637 on: November 16, 2021, 04:05:13 PM »
Quote from: Diapason on November 16, 2021, 01:36:15 PM
I don`t know how you do it, JW !!


My Mum and Dad were married there and I was christened there.


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I don't get out much  ;D ;D ;D .   I must admit that I really enjoy the hunt and learn quite a bit along the way.  It was the only church I could find in Sittingbourne that didn't look ancient.


Next one.  Can be seen on GSV.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5636 on: November 16, 2021, 01:36:15 PM »
I don`t know how you do it, JW !!


My Mum and Dad were married there and I was christened there.


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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5635 on: November 16, 2021, 10:09:28 AM »
Quick guess. The Methodist Church?
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