Guess the Place

[pete.mason]

TN postcode

[John Walker]

Biddenden area?

[pete.mason]

Go south a fair way

[castle261]

Robin Hood --- at Bluebell Hill.

[pete.mason]

Another pub. Still trading

[KeithG]

That is interesting shoot999.....
Pete had been chasing this every where hence why I think he deserves the next guess.

[shoot999]

I read about it in the Esplanade Redevelopment paper where it stated it was never built!  I think your picture and Google Earth from 1960 say otherwise. 


IIRC it was originally the mathematical school land it was built on?

[KeithG]

I will be fair as Pete is so near just maybe 300yds away and also i never ever knew about this Boating Lake.

The word i was looking for was Rochester ESPLANADE Boating Lake in 1935. You will notice it goes the other way to the old swimming pool?

You can see in the picture the Arethusa which was being repaired at Acorn Wharf.

Over to you Pete.....

[KeithG]

Wrong side of the river shoot999
Not Laughing Waters Pete but Lynch scrap yard is one of them nearby....... Jack Arnold was one Mayor of Rochester.

Rochester never had what you call a Lido. The swimming pool was next to a small boatyard.

Having said that the picture shows boats and you are very hot!
One more guess should nail it?

[pete.mason]

Lido at Rochester, shipbreakers next door IIRC

[pete.mason]

Laughing Waters Shorne? Scrappy Lynch?

[shoot999]

Strood? Just to narrow it down a bit.

[KeithG]

No industry or scrap yard and certainly no water nearby Pete.


Head 4mls East.....i am limited with clues otherwise obvious giveaway... Actually it was near two types of scrap yards and a wood yards.

[pete.mason]

Cobham Park

[KeithG]

No sorry shoot999.... Come pretty much 5mls South


There was a scrap yard nearby and the owner was once a prominent person...