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Offline Stewie

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8915 on: August 26, 2023, 05:07:59 PM »
well done grandarog close enough for me! over to you.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8914 on: August 26, 2023, 04:24:22 PM »
One of the boats on the other side of the Medway, opposite "Upnor Castle" battlement (If you were lucky) :)
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« Reply #8913 on: August 26, 2023, 03:48:49 PM »
Thanks Jacki Piper, being born and bred in Chatham, I recognised this one quite quickly. I don't really have much to offer and will be out and about this weekend so this one should go fairly promptly. So if I fired this cannon what would I hit?
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Offline Jackie Paper

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« Reply #8912 on: August 26, 2023, 10:30:44 AM »
Stewie has it spot on.

Pic taken from the gateway to Wickes car park.
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« Reply #8911 on: August 26, 2023, 07:00:02 AM »
is it the New Road viaduct over Railway Street in Chatham?
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Offline Jackie Paper

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« Reply #8910 on: August 25, 2023, 11:58:18 PM »
Very warm.
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8909 on: August 25, 2023, 08:51:36 PM »
Somewhere in Chatham Docks ?
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Offline johnfilmer

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8908 on: August 25, 2023, 05:44:47 PM »
They are only easy if you know them. I know this one...

Having just "been" I'll pass, no doubt one of the many local inhabitants will be along shortly. ::)
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Offline Jackie Paper

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8907 on: August 25, 2023, 04:57:19 PM »
OK. Here's one.
Not sure if it's too easy or too difficult...
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Offline Jackie Paper

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« Reply #8906 on: August 25, 2023, 03:44:58 PM »
No info on the date. The undeveloped surroundings suggest soon after opening in 1876?
Odd that it should be painted over the decorative brickwork visible in some other pictures though.
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Offline MartinR

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8905 on: August 25, 2023, 03:13:52 PM »
I'm not sure the portakabin style replacements for the buildings either side are an improvement.  I notice that the current main road doesn't exist in the earlier pic, any idea on the date?  (Just curious)  BTW, I don't think either Queenborough or Paddock Wood stations need location information!
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« Reply #8904 on: August 25, 2023, 03:13:43 PM »
You are so right Jackie Paper, it is Queenborough. Love the photo that you used clearly showing the original “wings” on each side. Although that signal on the right seems very tall?

I house shared with an old school friend for about a year in the early 70s just round the corner in front of the station, even used it a few times before that. I now find that a great(x3?) uncle had a dairy farm between the station and the main road to Halfway.

It’s over to you…
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Offline Jackie Paper

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« Reply #8903 on: August 25, 2023, 02:52:56 PM »
Queenborough BR on the Isle of Sheppey.

(Old pic from the Kent Community Rail Partnership website [https://kentcrp.org/])
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8902 on: August 25, 2023, 01:49:31 PM »
How restrained (pun intended) grandarog  8)
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8901 on: August 25, 2023, 11:55:56 AM »
Recognised straight away so isle pass on this one . :-X
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