Guess the Place

[DaveTheTrain]

   My Mum was billeted at the Pegwell Bay Hotel in WW2.  she was in the ATS and was at the AA gun at the end of Manston runway.  Just down from Ozengal Farm.  I haven't been able to find out very much about it but still searching.  Her Dad was stationed at Manston and the family lived in Picton Road, Ramsagte.

That must have been a dangerous place to be billeted.  The family from Downs Road was evacuated to Utoexeter.    Ramsgate as you know really took it from the Germans.


DTT

[John Walker]

Thanks DTT - I should have recognised it earlier - I've been there many times over the years.  I agree with you about the Belle View being well worth a visit.  Particularly on a sunny day outside with the view over Pegwell Bay.   My Mum was billeted at the Pegwell Bay Hotel in WW2.  She was in the ATS and was at the AA gun position at the end of Manston runway.  Just down from Ozengal Farm.  I haven't been able to find out very much about it but still searching.  Her Dad was stationed at Manston and the family lived in Picton Road, Ramsgate.
Sorry I beat you to it Diapason


Next one ...   No clues to start with.

[DaveTheTrain]

Well done JW.  Bad luck, Diapson.


The scene is not much changed.  If you look on Streetview, the Belle Vue pub is still the same.  The building nearest the camera on the LHS has been demolished.  It is a shame but the two next properties look in poor repair on Streetview. 


I lived in Downs Road which is parallel to this scene.  There was an RC convent, now all houses.  The Abbey Gate was connected with the Abbey in the main town.


I recommend the Belle Vue, we had a wake here a few years back and it was a very nice pub.

[Diapason]

You`ve just beaten me to it, JW. I`ve just found a Francis Frith photo which is nearly identical.

[John Walker]

Pegwell Village.  the Belle View pub would be on the right ?

[DaveTheTrain]

Too far North, Pete.  Although I see what you mean.    I could walk from Minster to home and it would take me around one hour, I would pass a Lavendar farm, and an important cross that commemorated the landing of an important man and marks the spot of a meeting. 


To be clear on the Abbey, this was one of a number of buildings in the town related to the Abbey.  There was a Convent next door which formed the greater part of the complex. 

[pete.mason]

I'll take a stab at Westgate on sea, abbey being St Augustines?

[DaveTheTrain]

You are not so far away, Diapson.  I used to cycle from home (where this is (nearly)) to Minster, and walked it on several occasions as a teenager.

[Diapason]

Not precisely coastal, although not far away, but it does remind me of Minster, Thanet. The abbey being to the left at the top of the slope.

[DaveTheTrain]

Okay, time for a clue, or two.


As JW asked, there was an Abbey at the top of this road on the left.  The area is coastal and has had many significant visitors over history. 

[DaveTheTrain]

Not Hollingbourne, you are quite a distance from here.  I shall put up a clue tomorrow morning but you need to be much further East.

[John Walker]

Wild guess - it has the feel of Hollingbourne but I can't actually place the photo.

[DaveTheTrain]

I didn't get a chance on the last one.  Popped out to get a bit of shopping and it was done and dusted when I got back 


DTT - is that a church yard at the top of the hill ?

I had wondered where you were, John.  You beat me to it on the church at Dayton Road so I had to act quick.   


You are not quite right, but close, on the Left hand side of the photo would have been an Abbey.  I don't believe the RHS building was connected to the Abbey.


As always with my posts I have a local connection, and this time I can claim to have delivered newspapers (as a 14 year old (yikes 40 years ago)) up this very road.  It does not look much different today.


Pete - no, not T.Wells.  Too far West.
DTT

[pete.mason]

Tun Wlls, looking from the Old High St onto the common

[John Walker]

I didn't get a chance on the last one.  Popped out to get a bit of shopping and it was done and dusted when I got back 


DTT - is that a church yard at the top of the hill ?