Guess the Place

[grandarog]

Oh yes, much modernised and updated as private residences.

[John Walker]

Does it still exist ?

[John Walker]

Not Chiddingstone ,that's miles away from ME13

Whoops!   I missed that clue - was using my mobile.   

[grandarog]

Not Chiddingstone ,that's miles away from ME13

[John Walker]

Quick guess - Chiddingstone ?

[grandarog]

Sorry for delay.
                 Here,s another cropped view from one of my old Postcards.


                               1st Clue ME13 Postcode area.

[CAT]

You have it grandarog, it is indeed Queenborough High Street looking west.


Current similar view, though with the church shrouded by a large Horse-Chestnut tree.


Over to you grandagog

[MartinR]

The church tower shows some significant changes from the drawing.  The stumpy spire has now gone and the turret in the south-east corner now reaches above the main roof to give access onto the roof.  The bells (which I've rung in a striking competition) date from 1667 with a new treble from 1911.  The tenor has been recast several times (1722, 1911 and 1933).  The church was burnt out in 1719 and had another serious fire in 1933.  The church has an "outstanding survival of a late C17 painted ceiling" according to the official listing, and is grade II*.

[grandarog]

Victorian view of Queenborough High Street on the Isle of Sheppey.


Street View of the Guild Hall shown at end of street on the old print.

[johnfilmer]

Recognised it straight away... Lived around the corner for about a year.
Will hold fire otherwise it becomes the CAT and johnfilmer show

[CAT]

Sorry for the delay, but lost internet at home for the weekend. A blessing, but a pain also!


Many thanks johnfilmer, a site I know well as I recently undertook a condition survey of the Roman fort walls. Very few people know that Reculver had a village attached with housing both within and without the Roman fort. The only one left now being the King Ethelbert pub. Prior to the erosion of the fort's northern half and erosion of the coastline, the village of Reculver stood to the north of the fort, which goes to show how much has disappeared in the last two hundred years.


here is my next, which could go fairly quickly.

[johnfilmer]

Got it one CAT
I said that it was easy, but hoped that the old Coastguard Sation and cottages might throw people off the scent.
Another photo, presumably taken at the the same time shows those buildings behind the white pub building, and what appears to be a cafe to the left of the pub as we view it. Loking at the cars, I think early 1930s is about right.
Back to you.

[CAT]

St Mary's Church ruins looking east from the twin towers at Reculver?

[johnfilmer]

I was pretty sure that I had looked at it on GSV during a GTP hunt at some point, and being brick, not stone, it lodged in the memory.
This photo was taken probably early 1930s. Probably easy.

[CAT]

Evidently, my modern pic shows it from the inside and not the exterior as this one for comparison with my original early nineteenth century view