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Offline grandarog

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5863 on: December 30, 2021, 07:25:25 AM »
Not Abbey Fields .
Cycle Route  1 is correct. You need to go Further West

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5862 on: December 29, 2021, 10:40:41 PM »
Abbey Fields Road ?  Cycle route 1 section


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5861 on: December 29, 2021, 05:35:36 PM »
Sorry not Bysing or Graveney.      :)
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5860 on: December 29, 2021, 04:51:46 PM »
Bysing Wood Road?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5859 on: December 29, 2021, 10:48:39 AM »
Graveney Road?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5858 on: December 29, 2021, 06:54:01 AM »
Not that one John Walker.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5857 on: December 28, 2021, 08:06:46 PM »
The road into Faversham from Oare ?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5856 on: December 28, 2021, 06:40:12 PM »
Sorry for delay. Hope you all had a great Christmas.
Here's the next one.
Name of the Road this sign is beside.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5855 on: December 28, 2021, 05:35:18 PM »
Sorry https!

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5854 on: December 28, 2021, 05:33:50 PM »
MartinR. Afraid that I can't receive that www.--" not obtainable".

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5853 on: December 27, 2021, 04:36:00 PM »

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5852 on: December 27, 2021, 04:17:44 PM »
Another shot........

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5851 on: December 27, 2021, 04:09:58 PM »
Well done grandarog, it is indeed Dane Park Margate

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5850 on: December 27, 2021, 01:07:32 PM »
Thank goodness it's cast iron or I think the local 'tracksuits' would have destroyed it by now.  Such a shame it's not still in water but there's not really an option these days.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5849 on: December 27, 2021, 10:35:19 AM »
Got the wrong Park first time .New I had seen it.
  Dane Park at Margate. Lot of info here from Bob Speel's site.


In Dane Park, the most central of Margate’s parks, is a grand fountain, typical seaside town architecture, a cast iron structure from the 1890s. It was put up, says the little sign next to it, in memory of John Woodward, who gave the land for the park to Margate and further land to pay for its upkeep. The fountain has at the top our third Margate statue, a standing girl in long Classical robes, holding up a lilly in one hand, from which water presumably once gushed. Her other arm, modestly across her upper body, appears to be holding up one edge of her gown which has slipped off the raised shoulder. She wears upon her head a wreath of olives. Below, a small shelly bowl, then a column to the larger bowl beneath, with around the central shaft four herons, little wings raised, beaks against their breasts, standing among low reeds and waterlilies. The lower bowl, which has a a decorated edge of leaves, perhaps oak, and corrugated, is on a broader shaft which widens to a drum around which are great fish of classical design, with big eyes, dolphin-like faces, spiky fins and upward coiled tails ending in trefoil tailfins (if you like fish sculpture, [); between these on the central shaft are low relief scenes of fishing cherubs, and beneath, small protruding lion heads. At one time, the water would have splashed down from upper figure via the two bowls to a wide stone basin, but this was filled in during the 1980s to form a flowerbed. A fine piece of late Victorian ironwork.