Guess the Place

[grandarog]

Seeing the picture with all the charabancs reminds me of the A2 through Sittingbourne back before the M2 .Sunday evenings there would be streams of the old Red London Transport double Deckers coming back from Margate with full loads of London families on board . Used to watch them from the balcony and wave as they struggled up Snipes Hill some with steam blowing out of the bonnets.

[DaveTheTrain]

CAT has it,   The George Inn, Molash on the A252.  Which was the other principal route to Canterbury, and then on to Margate taking the A20, A252, A28 route.   
The pub had a little tin-shed shop in the car park that sold flowers and fruit.  It was managed by a local chap who paid rent to the pub.   The shed gets mentioned in Edward Hyams local book "From the Waste Land" which charts his life as a cottager/market-gardener just after the second war.  The shed is still there and used for storage.

CAT must have a very similar route to mine to know these places.


Over to you.
DTT

[CAT]

Sorry, Molash, not Challock

[CAT]

Outside the George Inn, Challock?

[DaveTheTrain]

Absolutely John (and all the more, the stop at the pub).   But they are not heading home,   they are facing their destination. 
It is not the A2.


I would add, the scene is unchanged to-day except the lean-to on the pub has become a single storey flat roof extension.

[John Walker]

Firstly - what a superb photo.  The excitement of a day trip to the seaside and the stop at a pub on the way home.


Along the A2 ?

[DaveTheTrain]

Not the Roman Galley, Alec.
DTT

[Invicta Alec]

Roman Galley, Thanet Way?


Alec.

[DaveTheTrain]

Thanks John,


A very nice place to walk around, I recommend it to the house.


Now, where is this.  Obviously a picture without a motor bus in it, is not worth taking (as every schoolboy knows), so where did the talented photographer stand to take this photo? 


No clues yet.

[John Walker]

That's the place DTT.  The White Rabbit clue related to the clock collection at Belmont.  Over to you ...

[DaveTheTrain]

Belmont House, Throwley.   I had me scratching my head.   I could not place it, and yet my friend lived almost opposite!

[John Walker]

ME13

[John Walker]

Sorry Shoot999 - I should have said NORTH from Godinton House.  I've now corrected it.   


The White Rabbit clue is significant.  Think about the start of Alice in Wonderland.

[shoot999]

Tenterton/Wittersham area?

[John Walker]

Not Godinton Diapason - Head north



White Rabbit would find this place useful.