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Offline CAT

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3924 on: February 18, 2021, 08:51:36 AM »
Many thanks John Walker.


Your farther in law and myself must have just missed each other as I went and saw the crumpled remains of the spire a day or so after its collapse. A local at the time suggested even the church tower had been 'on the sauce' during the storm and couldn't even stand upright so had a night in the churchyard.


Here is my next, which is close to a castle, but where...?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3923 on: February 17, 2021, 07:12:08 PM »
Quote from: CAT on February 17, 2021, 02:45:13 PM
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  :D .  My Father in Law, Allan Yates took the photo a few days after it happened.


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3922 on: February 17, 2021, 02:45:13 PM »
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?
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« Reply #3921 on: February 17, 2021, 12:01:19 PM »
Pub and restaurant nearby.  A Roman villa was found about 300 mtrs from this church.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3920 on: February 16, 2021, 11:06:55 PM »
Quote from: johnfilmer on February 16, 2021, 05:16:43 PM
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
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3919 on: February 16, 2021, 05:16:43 PM »
Does the pile of rubble by the base of the tower have anything to do with the October 1987 storm?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3918 on: February 16, 2021, 01:25:59 PM »
A very prominent village church. Photo taken in the late 1980s
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3917 on: February 16, 2021, 11:08:54 AM »
Quote from: shoot999 on February 16, 2021, 09:34:25 AM

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


More NE of the M20
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« Reply #3916 on: February 16, 2021, 09:34:25 AM »
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.   ;D


But to start the ball rolling, north of the M20?
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3915 on: February 15, 2021, 11:07:53 PM »
I thought as it's a church it might have been guessed quickly.
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3914 on: February 15, 2021, 04:30:25 PM »
Can be seen on GSV through gaps in trees. Station nearby.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3913 on: February 15, 2021, 12:43:52 PM »
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.
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3912 on: February 15, 2021, 11:36:32 AM »
Thanks JohnFilmer - An interesting one but a very difficult one to find.


Next one ...
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3911 on: February 15, 2021, 11:34:21 AM »
Quote from: MartinR on February 15, 2021, 11:29:56 AM
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.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3910 on: February 15, 2021, 11:29:56 AM »
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
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