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Online MartinR

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8028 on: February 11, 2023, 10:43:40 PM »
Can you give a bit more information on the location?  I can't find any pubs in Challock neither can I fine Challock/Chollock Cross.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8027 on: February 11, 2023, 07:02:43 PM »
You have it John Walker ,Chollock Cross . looking down theCharing -Maidstone road.
We had just had lunch at the pub behind me.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8026 on: February 11, 2023, 06:18:32 PM »
A252 at Challock ?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8025 on: February 11, 2023, 05:36:43 PM »
Wrong side of Ashford .The road shown is quite high up compared to Romney Marsh.


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8024 on: February 11, 2023, 05:07:27 PM »
Romney Marsh?


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8023 on: February 10, 2023, 05:11:01 PM »
This road is in a very historic Village with a Saxon name and a 13 Century Church that replaced an earlier one.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8022 on: February 09, 2023, 10:05:29 PM »
John Walker,     Not a level crossing ,anti skid is found at a lot of junctions etc.
Luton man,       Sorry not Sundridge ,,,  it's East Kent TN Postcode .


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8021 on: February 09, 2023, 08:27:54 PM »
Sundridge?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8020 on: February 09, 2023, 06:20:43 PM »
I presume the anti-skid road surface is relevant?  Leading up to a level crossing?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8019 on: February 09, 2023, 06:01:36 PM »
Drivers that watch the road should soon get this one.
TN postcode.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8018 on: February 08, 2023, 06:21:10 PM »
East Kent :)

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8017 on: February 08, 2023, 12:46:43 PM »
A mid-Kent village?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8016 on: February 08, 2023, 11:17:16 AM »
Thanks Beachbum ,pure luck as i had seen the pic when researching various Kent Workhouse's the other day.
Nice easy one next .
     Where was I and where was the Van heading towards.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8015 on: February 07, 2023, 08:09:23 PM »
You have it grandarog.
Several phases were built over the years, but mainy a Childrens Workhouse.The site now has a Medical Centre in the 1895 section, a care home and as grandarog says: Flats

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8014 on: February 07, 2023, 06:18:06 PM »
Pincess Mary's Workhouse ,Margate. Closed and now is Flats.



Princess Mary's Hospital , Margate (workhouses.org.uk)