Guess the Place

[John Walker]

Go on, I'll bite. St Mary's Church, Minster, Thanet? Needed a new spire after it was blown off in the storm of 1987?

That's the one CAT  .  My Father in Law, Allan Yates took the photo a few days after it happened.


Over to you ...

[CAT]

Go on, I'll bite. St Mary's Church, Minster, Thanet? Needed a new spire after it was blown off in the storm of 1987?

[John Walker]

Pub and restaurant nearby.  A Roman villa was found about 300 mtrs from this church.

[John Walker]

Does the pile of rubble by the base of the tower have anything to do with the October 1987 storm?

Well spotted JohnFilmer.  Getting hot now

[johnfilmer]

Does the pile of rubble by the base of the tower have anything to do with the October 1987 storm?

[John Walker]

A very prominent village church. Photo taken in the late 1980s

[John Walker]

But to start the ball rolling, north of the M20?

More NE of the M20

[shoot999]

Well my excuse is I've been a bit busy and not had the time to play. Although it has to be said I never guess churches right anyway.   


But to start the ball rolling, north of the M20?

[John Walker]

I thought as it's a church it might have been guessed quickly.

[John Walker]

Can be seen on GSV through gaps in trees. Station nearby.

[MartinR]

That's not a problem John.  I've come across places in the past where the "official" name is different from the name the locals use.  Examples are Nevilles Cross on maps (should be Neville's Cross), "No Place" (council tried to change it to Co-operative cottages) or my favourite: Hell Lane in the village of Sodom, now renamed to Upper Ettingshall Rd, in Upper Ettingshall.

[John Walker]

Thanks JohnFilmer - An interesting one but a very difficult one to find.


Next one ...

[John Walker]

Hmm, according to GSV and other mapping services, 51.254580, 0.516145 is in Bockingford Lane, not Bockingham Lane.  See https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/51%C2%B015'16.5%22N+0%C2%B030'58.1%22E/@51.2545808,0.5155978,19z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x0:0x0!7e2!8m2!3d51.2545801!4d0.5161453!5m1!1e1

Thanks MartinR - My typo - now corrected.

[MartinR]

Hmm, according to GSV and other mapping services, 51.254580, 0.516145 is in Bockingford Lane, not Bockingham Lane.  See https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/51%C2%B015'16.5%22N+0%C2%B030'58.1%22E/@51.2545808,0.5155978,19z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x0:0x0!7e2!8m2!3d51.2545801!4d0.5161453!5m1!1e1

[johnfilmer]

The old Bockingford Arms, now a private house as Bockingham Steps. An imposing building, but quite shallow upstairs.

www.dover-kent.com/2014-project/Bockingford-Arms-Loose.html
We installed a heating system there some years ago, challenging but hugely interesting, I did the design. The main rooms downstairs used new cast iron sectional radiators (think old school type) that had to be assembled on site. The instructions specified the torque for the connecting nipples by where a given weight man stood on which length bar. Failed to mention the three other guys hanging onto the radiator!
Over to you JW