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Offline MartinR

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9294 on: December 05, 2023, 03:43:25 PM »
High Street?  GSV calls it "Constitution Hill".  Anyhow the view is towards the centre from just before "The Antiques Store" which in the original posting was a cinema.  More or less the new build number 1.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9293 on: December 05, 2023, 03:21:18 PM »
Gold Star for JW, Snodland it is, I guess about 1950ish.

I had lots of obscure clues ready as well! The High Street is unusual in that it is not the main through road, but runs at right angles to it.

So back to you.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9292 on: December 05, 2023, 02:27:55 PM »
Quick guess = Snodland?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9291 on: December 05, 2023, 01:22:41 PM »
Where is this High Street?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9290 on: December 05, 2023, 12:29:21 PM »
I have driven past there countless times, even did a survey in that building, which was some sort of care worker organisation. The memory is defintely getting dimmer, as I recognised it straight away but the penny took a long time to drop as to where it is.

Back with the next one soon...
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9289 on: December 05, 2023, 09:29:32 AM »
I'd never had got that one.  Well done JohnFilmer  :)

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9288 on: December 05, 2023, 09:18:26 AM »
Johnfilmer has is correctly, the Coachman's Cottage.  Entrance to Turkey Mill, A20 Ashford Road, just outside of Maidstone.

A seasonal offering, that was stuffing you.  etc. etc. were the clues.


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9287 on: December 05, 2023, 08:36:10 AM »
The wall on the right is gone, Vinters Park?, I think that it is the entrance to Turkey Mill off the A20 at Maidstone.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9286 on: December 04, 2023, 11:51:32 PM »
Quick stab  -  Pye Corner?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9285 on: December 04, 2023, 11:03:58 PM »
Not Headcorn, Martin but you are getting closer.  7.8 miles as the crow flies from Headcorn to our location.

Clearly visible on Street View.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9284 on: December 04, 2023, 10:37:57 PM »
Headcorn area?  (corn => stuffing?)

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9283 on: December 04, 2023, 09:27:22 PM »
Not EK JW, other direction.  I know what you mean about the Eastwell Manor Wall. I drive past it every work day on the school run.

This might have you stuffed  ;)

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9282 on: December 04, 2023, 09:00:49 PM »
I don't think it is where I thought it was - The long wall on the boundry of Eastwell Manor along the A251 Faversham Road. A GSV search doesn't show this view as far as I can see.    The search continues.

East Kent?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9281 on: December 04, 2023, 08:54:33 PM »
Well it looks like the boundary wall of Weston Park as it passes through Weston-under-Lizard.  However I suspect that western edge of Staffordshire may be a little out of area.  ;D

Its funny Martin, but I do now check that the postcard is from the area it purports to be.  A quick google SV check this morning, and its still in Kent.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9280 on: December 04, 2023, 08:49:20 PM »
Well it looks like the boundary wall of Weston Park as it passes through Weston-under-Lizard.  However I suspect that western edge of Staffordshire may be a little out of area.  ;D