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Offline Diapason

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #212 on: October 29, 2019, 09:07:37 AM »
Minster Abbey?
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Offline Local Hiker

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« Reply #211 on: October 28, 2019, 08:28:36 PM »
Thanks johnfilmer. I am very familiar with the pumping station; it is quite a striking building. I was not aware that it was flats.

I have some photos somehere, but cannot find them on my PC. The riverside path (Medway north bank) was closed for a while a few years ago, and the diversion took you onto Forstal Road and right passed it.

I have no recollection of the specific building in your GTP photo; I note that the whole area has been bulldozed and is being re-developed.


Back to churches. Where is this?
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Offline johnfilmer

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #210 on: October 28, 2019, 08:04:10 PM »
Well done Local Hiker. It was Phoenix House, Forstal Road, at the time home to the Dixonheat Group.


The pumping station still has a row of accumulators along the road frontage.


I left in 1984 to strike out on my own.


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #209 on: October 28, 2019, 07:54:34 PM »
The bollards are still there in GE in September 2018. Forstal Road, Aylesford
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Offline johnfilmer

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #208 on: October 28, 2019, 05:31:53 PM »
The listed Pumping Station has some of its (previously) functioning parts in full view, where they always were.
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Offline johnfilmer

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #207 on: October 28, 2019, 07:47:18 AM »
Go south(ish)
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #206 on: October 27, 2019, 09:52:30 PM »
Nelson Terrace, Luton?


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Offline johnfilmer

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #205 on: October 27, 2019, 05:24:57 PM »
Sorry, I misread Martin's earlier post so did not realise that my wild-ar*ed guess was actually right :)
So now for something completely different... The photo was sent to me very recently by someone who was our cheap trainee in the early 1980s. The building was designed and built in house about 1980 and demolished 2016ish. It is still a vacant site.

Photo taken late 81/early 82. I had the doubtful pleasure of charging about in the Ford Granada as my company barge.
Not very historic you may say, but next door was a Victorian pumping station, now converted to flats.
But where?
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Offline MartinR

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #204 on: October 26, 2019, 11:30:43 PM »
Yes, sorry I thought that was clear.
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Offline Johnnie Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #203 on: October 26, 2019, 09:59:38 PM »
Hi MartinR, Are you saying that JohnFilmer has guessed it correctly with Aylesford Priory?   :)
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #202 on: October 26, 2019, 05:58:39 PM »
   First quick look I thought my mums mangle had turned up after 60 years  :) :)
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Offline MartinR

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #201 on: October 25, 2019, 11:20:03 AM »
@John Walker: it's not attached to an actual chapel/church.  @johnfilmer: yes, its in the cloister area.
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Offline johnfilmer

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #200 on: October 25, 2019, 11:16:52 AM »
Aylesford Priory has a lot of dormers - is it there?
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Offline Johnnie Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #199 on: October 25, 2019, 11:12:54 AM »
Is this a private chapel/church?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #198 on: October 25, 2019, 11:04:22 AM »
Last time I was there was '96.  Must go back.
Here is an interesting way to hang a bell.  Why there are two ropes I'm not sure, you would only need one and gravity.  Look closely at the wheel though, how to hang a bell on the cheap: a bike wheel and a lump of wood!  Where is it though?
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