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Online Beachbum

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4898 on: July 12, 2021, 09:02:32 PM »
Good evening all.
The photo is dated 1934 and is the start of demolition. A later Tower replaced it which was more of a monument type and no longer had the purpose of the original Trinity House Tower. This also has now gone.
Not a shot tower, but was for naughtical guidance...............
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4897 on: July 12, 2021, 11:24:45 AM »
Not sure if Trinity House would have one but how about a 'shot tower?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4896 on: July 12, 2021, 10:38:50 AM »
Do we have a date on the photo?
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« Reply #4895 on: July 12, 2021, 09:54:36 AM »
Although I have no recollection of this tower, it does remind me of Lower Murston (brickfields and cement works), of 50 years ago.
 
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4894 on: July 12, 2021, 08:59:08 AM »
Is any part of the structure (or the surrounding buildings) still standing?
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« Reply #4893 on: July 12, 2021, 07:24:52 AM »
Was it overlooking the River Thames?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4892 on: July 11, 2021, 11:38:51 PM »
It was built by Trinity House and had a purpose........
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4891 on: July 11, 2021, 11:04:30 PM »
Was the tower designed as a landmark, or for another purpose and used as a landmark?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4890 on: July 11, 2021, 10:22:22 PM »
Apologies to all for the delay as I have been working today, and perhaps I should of stated that it was not Sheppey?
Anyway: This Tower was for naughtical purposes...........
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« Reply #4889 on: July 11, 2021, 01:03:57 PM »
Hi Martin,   I didn't see it that way so no worry.  Your idea of adding the coordinates is a good one.  I keep forgetting to do it.


Cheers


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« Reply #4888 on: July 11, 2021, 01:00:20 PM »
John, I wasn't trying to be awkward, honest.  It is easy though to see just the solution and wander off in GSV or similar without reading all the clues that led up to the solution, particularly if you've been busy and not had a chance to hunt.  One of the great virtues of GTP is that people see the photos and find out about new places which is why I sometimes add in the location details once I've found the place.  So please don't take this in any way as criticism or nit-picking, it's genuinely meant as an attempt to improve the usefulness of the forum, though on this occasion I will admit I virtually wandered off to the Isle of Sheppey before grandarog corrected me.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4887 on: July 11, 2021, 12:41:49 PM »
I wrongly presumed that my answer to StuartWaters guess of Sandwich would have confirmed which Minster it was.  Sorry about that folks.  :)
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4886 on: July 11, 2021, 11:50:40 AM »
Hence my requests for precise locations!

 
Code: [Select]
OS X (Eastings)     631167
OS Y (Northings)    164438
Nearest Post Code   CT12 4HF
Lat (WGS84)         N51:19:55 (51.332019842985574)
Long (WGS84)        E1:19:01 (1.3170530280936363)
Lat,Long            51.332019842985574,1.3170530280936363
Nat Grid            TR311644 / TR3116764438
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4885 on: July 11, 2021, 11:10:29 AM »
Just sticking my oar in. :)
In case other Members are not aware. John Walkers Subject was Minster Abbey ,Thanet as opposed to Minster Abbey on the Isle of Sheppey.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4884 on: July 11, 2021, 08:30:00 AM »
Quote from: Beachbum on July 10, 2021, 11:41:38 PM
Minster Abbey John Walker?


You have it Beachbum - over to you...


A lot of history is attached to this abbey.

The first Monastery at Minster Abbey was founded in 670, and the present buildings date back to 1027. Part of the Abbey was destroyed during the Reformation but some fine buildings remain, and this is still home to a community of Nuns.
It is possibly the oldest inhabited house in England, and the only pre-Reformation Monastery to be currently used as a Religious House in England. The present community returned from Germany in 1937.

https://www.britainexpress.com/counties/kent/abbeys/minster-abbey.htm


Around the 1980s there was a rural life museum in the abbey grounds. I used to tidy up and paint old ploughs and mangles for part of the display.  It was a nice working atmosphere with all the other volunteers.  Sometime in the 2000s, the abbey wanted the land back and the museum was dissolved.
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