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John Walker
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Reply #228 on:
November 08, 2019, 03:14:09 AM »
Thanks CAT
Next one ... Name and Where?
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CAT
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Reply #227 on:
November 07, 2019, 05:11:20 PM »
I'm not going to quibble about front or rear, it's the south-eastern corner tower of Cooling Castle. Correctly mentioned that it was built for the Cobham family in the last quarter of the fourteenth-century as a defence of the southern side of the Thames Estuary. Then the marshes to the north were not so well developed and an open water course extended from the Estuary up to the Castle.
Masonry has fallen from the eastern tower of the main south gate, but this is in the process of being restored at the moment.
You have it John Walker
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John Walker
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November 06, 2019, 11:06:47 PM »
Is it a tower at the rear of Cooling Castle? Built by or for the Cobhams. I think masonry fell from one of the front towers a year or so ago?
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CAT
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November 06, 2019, 10:15:45 PM »
Many thanks Diapason. I knew I'd seen the building somewhere on my work travels, which was about 2 years ago.
My next is my current work travels, but where and who was it built for?
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Diapason
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November 06, 2019, 06:55:13 AM »
Well guessed CAT.
Picture taken last year on my first visit to Minster, my father`s birthplace and where my grandfather was engineer at the Minster Laundry.
The old Laundry.
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CAT
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November 04, 2019, 01:49:20 PM »
Sorry, should have said the former 'The White Horse', as I think it's now closed?
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CAT
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November 04, 2019, 01:45:57 PM »
Sorry John Walker, I think I'm going to snatch it from you?
The White Horse, Church Street, Minster (Thanet). If correct, its a bit crafty as its been blanked out on Google Streetview.
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John Walker
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November 04, 2019, 09:17:09 AM »
If there haven't been any further guesses by this evening, I'll put my guess in to keep things moving.
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Diapason
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November 02, 2019, 01:55:06 PM »
Wrong Abbey!
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MartinR
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October 31, 2019, 10:27:13 AM »
Abbey makes me think of Minster-in-Sheppey, but that's only a guess.
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John Walker
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October 31, 2019, 10:11:11 AM »
I should have got this one straight away - I lived 3 minutes walk from it a few year ago!!!
I won't put a 'guess' forward as it wouldn't be a Guess
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Diapason
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October 31, 2019, 07:07:08 AM »
Yes, I agree! But unfortunately it isn`t Sandwich.
Close to a large church and an abbey. (That should give it away).
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John Walker
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October 30, 2019, 07:57:54 PM »
That has a look of Sandwich ...
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Diapason
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Reply #215 on:
October 30, 2019, 08:50:50 AM »
Next offering, with a very tenuous connection with the previous GTP photo.
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MartinR
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October 29, 2019, 12:48:07 PM »
There's more about the bells here:
http://kent.lovesguide.com/tower.php?id=135
Number 3, 5 and 6 (tenor) are the original 1663 bells, so (discounting a bit of retuning to 5 and 6) you are hearing the same sound as rang out 350 years ago.
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