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Dave Smith
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Re: Guess the Place
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Reply #6430 on:
April 08, 2022, 04:41:04 PM »
Looks a bit like my pre WW2 memory of Darland Banks?- apart from the seat!
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grandarog
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Re: Guess the Place
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Reply #6429 on:
April 08, 2022, 02:24:51 PM »
It might have been this John.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205201825
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205201828
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John Walker
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Re: Guess the Place
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Reply #6428 on:
April 08, 2022, 02:18:32 PM »
Thanks Beachbum. I recall reading about somewhere in or near Dreamland being requisitioned as a reception centre for soldiers returning from the war. I can't find it now
Next one - where and what?
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MartinR
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Re: Guess the Place
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Reply #6427 on:
April 08, 2022, 12:45:24 PM »
Best coordinates I can get are:
WGS84: 51°23'11"N, 001°22'30"E or 51.3863771,1.3749312
Post code: CT9 1XP or 1XN
Grid ref: TR 34918 70664
It must have been quite a ballroom. At that length you'd only get half way around before the music stopped. Great for quicksteps!
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Beachbum
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Re: Guess the Place
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Reply #6426 on:
April 07, 2022, 11:25:02 PM »
You are at the right spot JW.
So this was a former Station of the South Eastern Railway (1846) known as the Margate Sands Station. It is adjacent to the Dreamland Cinema and opposite the Main Beach.It became the MCC Casino Ballroom and then a Restaurant.
Over to you John Walker.............
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John Walker
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Re: Guess the Place
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Reply #6425 on:
April 07, 2022, 05:37:07 PM »
Anything to do with the Dreamland site. I seem to recall there being a hall that could feed over 1000 during one of the wars. Might have been a railway station?
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Beachbum
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Re: Guess the Place
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Reply #6424 on:
April 07, 2022, 04:01:29 PM »
It had connections to Ashford.............
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grandarog
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Re: Guess the Place
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Reply #6423 on:
April 06, 2022, 09:30:34 PM »
Not far from last place, I will wait a while give others a chance.
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Beachbum
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Re: Guess the Place
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Reply #6422 on:
April 06, 2022, 08:56:38 PM »
Thanks JW, I was born there (no blue plaque yet).
Okay folks, try this one..........
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John Walker
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Re: Guess the Place
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Reply #6421 on:
April 06, 2022, 08:42:06 PM »
You have it Beachbum. The Ramsgate General Hospital, now residential. I wondered if you would get it first. Guessing you have connections with the area.
51.33071203433421, 1.410873221349325
Over to you ...
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Beachbum
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Re: Guess the Place
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Reply #6420 on:
April 06, 2022, 08:35:55 PM »
The former Ramsgate Hospital?
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John Walker
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Re: Guess the Place
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Reply #6419 on:
April 06, 2022, 04:46:22 PM »
Quote from: MartinR on April 06, 2022, 03:28:01 PM
Deal? Or Kingsdown?
Sorry if I've misled you MartinR, My clues were generalising rather than specific. Grandarog is very close but wrong town.
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John Walker
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Re: Guess the Place
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Reply #6418 on:
April 06, 2022, 04:43:04 PM »
Quote from: grandarog on April 06, 2022, 01:47:20 PM
Broadstairs ? Cant go much farther East with dry feet.
Adjoining town Grandrog.
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MartinR
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Re: Guess the Place
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Reply #6417 on:
April 06, 2022, 03:28:01 PM »
Deal? Or Kingsdown?
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grandarog
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Re: Guess the Place
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Reply #6416 on:
April 06, 2022, 01:47:20 PM »
Broadstairs ? Cant go much farther East with dry feet.
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