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Online MartinR

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10024 on: Today at 03:38:06 PM »
The West Kent Hospital is visible on the 1870 6" OS map as "Genl Hospital (West Kent)".  See https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18.0&lat=51.27465&lon=0.52894&layers=257&b=1&o=100 for the overlay map.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10023 on: Today at 03:28:53 PM »
Might help to consider what it might be defending.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10022 on: Today at 09:55:42 AM »
I've found a photo of a similar one near Teston but haven't located it yet?
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Offline johnfilmer

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10021 on: Today at 09:05:41 AM »
Not the A20.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10020 on: Today at 12:00:32 AM »
A20?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10019 on: May 06, 2024, 05:58:22 PM »
That was hard work to finally find that it was a building within a few hundred yards of our old business premises...

Both my sons were born there, we had the 3am dash for the first. My wife got some strange looks when she was asked about how often the contractions had been, and she said that she had to stop timing them that evening while she mucked out the stables. Luckily I'm allergic to horses  :)

Meanwhile, back on topic, where is this pillbox? The road is a busy A road that I suspect many of us (certainly me) have used many times.

Mid Kent
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10018 on: May 06, 2024, 05:26:54 PM »
Well done JohnFilmer.  West Kent Hospital, Maidstone.  My maternal great grandfather, George Impett, was employed as head gardener at Roydon Hall in 1906.  The family lived in a tied-cottage near Wateringbury.  In 1907, my great-grandfather suddenly became ill and was taken to the West Kent Hospital, where he died.  (The family story is that he was kicked in the head by a horse)
My Great Grandmother and five children were then forced to leave the tied-cottage and moved to Canterbury, where they lived in a slum for many years.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10017 on: May 06, 2024, 10:35:33 AM »
It’s the old Maidstone Hospital in Marsham Street, where now stands Hengist Court.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10016 on: May 06, 2024, 12:02:54 AM »
Thomas Place, Maidstone?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10015 on: May 05, 2024, 05:55:47 PM »
Beachbum is closest with King's Lodge, Maidstone.  Don't forget, this building was demolished in the 80s/90s.

Replaced by a large sheltered housing complex which is named after an ancient king.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10014 on: May 05, 2024, 08:18:49 AM »
Beachbum You must be joking with King Arthur Court. Sittingbourne doesn't have any archtechural marvels.
Exeptions being Church,s and the Artdeco  Burtons shop front and the old Odeon Cinema.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10013 on: May 05, 2024, 12:38:38 AM »
Kings Lodge, Maidstone?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10012 on: May 05, 2024, 12:25:38 AM »
Quote from: Beachbum on May 04, 2024, 11:53:46 PM
King Arther Court, Sittingbourne?

More central Kent. This building was purpose built.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10011 on: May 04, 2024, 11:53:46 PM »
King Arther Court, Sittingbourne?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #10010 on: May 03, 2024, 08:30:26 PM »
Too near the edge of Kent Beachbum.
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