Guess the Place

[MartinR]

I'm flat out of usable photos.  Odd when you know the solution but can't understand the clue!

[John Walker]

I'm fairly sure I know this one so will hold back.

[Beachbum]

Thanks MartinR, an intersting story from the past.

Next one: "Admirers?"

[MartinR]

Bang on Beachbum.

If you search the forum's archives I think you'll find "A Ship in the Belfry" that I wrote a few years ago.  The Pittsburgh had run aground on rocks just off Libau, Latvia, and had punctured her double bottom in several places.  HMS Dauntless stood by to assist and was the relieved by USS Frederick.  The two American ships headed to Sheerness and eventually the Pittsburgh was brought up river to be dry-docked.

Over to you.

[Beachbum]

 One of the ten bells of Rochester Cathedral bell tower. The Dean and Chapter commissioned Gillett and Johnston of Croydon to recast the existing eight bells and to add two more in 1921. The recasting of this bell was funded by Captain Todd of USS Pitssburgh, thanking the dean for hospitality events during the two and a half months that Pittsburgh was in dry dock at Chatham (Chatham News 17 December 1920).

[stuartwaters]

I know this and remember it from the old forum. I'll hold my peace because I don't have a photo to put up.

[MartinR]

Time for a clue: It took the Romans two days to cross the river near here.

[grandarog]

Location and Explanation ready to post if the GTP drags on too long.

[John Walker]

I've managed to track it down.  Very interesting MartinR.
I'll hold back as I've only just had a GTP.

[MartinR]

I think I may have put this one up in the old forum.  Anyhow, it's obviously a bell, but a careful examination will reveal an unusual inscription cast into it.  Bragging rights if you can locate it, but full prize only if you can explain the inscription.

[MartinR]

I've been a bit busy today.  I'll look out a photo tomorrow.

[John Walker]

Yes - I was refering to the chapel as against the main shrine.  I could only find reference to the chapel in it's own right. 

Apologies MartinR if this misled you.


It is St Annes Chapel.  Over to you.

My original photo depicts Anne and Mary going to the temple so Mary can be dedicated to
the service of God.

Tucked in the corner before you reach the Main Shrine, is the St Anne’s Chapel, memorable for its green walls and simplicity. The scraffito work and ceramics are all by Kossowski. Altar in St Anne's chapel , part of The Friars, Carmelite monastery in Aylesford, Kent. The whole chapel, including this altar, were decorated by artist and ceramicist, Adam Kossowski, part of his thanks for deliverance from the horrors of a Soviet labour camp.

[MartinR]

Wait - when you said it was not a shrine were you referring to the main shrine at the Friars or the whole shrine complex?  If the former then there's a St Anne's Chapel around the back of the open air main shrine, but it is part of the shrine complex.

[John Walker]

There is a Peace Garden near this chapel.  The word PEACE appears in many languages from around the world.

[johnfilmer]

Martin, Google is your friend 

I and probably others have held fire as you have been so close.