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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5139 on: August 21, 2021, 01:38:35 AM »
Is it something to do with water?
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Offline grandarog

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5138 on: August 20, 2021, 06:27:10 PM »
You're right ,I will hang back for others to try. :)
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Offline johnfilmer

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5137 on: August 20, 2021, 05:54:52 PM »
Next one, probably easy for some.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5136 on: August 20, 2021, 05:49:59 PM »
Oh the temptation to go off into Kenneth Williams or Frankie Howerd voices, making dodgy jokes about Swan Upping...
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5135 on: August 20, 2021, 05:44:11 PM »
It was, landlord John Skelton used to go off Swan Upping whenever it was the Waterman's Company turn.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5134 on: August 20, 2021, 04:52:18 PM »
Shoreham High Street for certain (white car in foreground of GSV)
Was it The Royal Oak?
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Offline Lutonman

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5133 on: August 20, 2021, 04:10:10 PM »
How about Sevenoaks?
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pete.mason

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5132 on: August 20, 2021, 09:39:54 AM »
West & North of Tonbridge. Landlord used to row for The Waterman's Company Swan Upping
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5131 on: August 20, 2021, 12:06:54 AM »
East Kent ?
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pete.mason

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5130 on: August 18, 2021, 10:16:48 PM »
All down to search engines  ;D   Try  this for size, another dead pub
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Offline johnfilmer

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5129 on: August 18, 2021, 07:11:02 PM »
Wow, that was quick, and correct.


It has now been treated to a “Grand Designs” conversion to a highly des res. GSV is yet to catch up.


Over to Pete...
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pete.mason

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5128 on: August 18, 2021, 07:06:38 PM »
Stede Hill Harrietsham
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5127 on: August 18, 2021, 05:25:22 PM »
As I said, it's easy when you know the answer! I just worked away from Ham Street, staying close to the Military Canal. Went past it twice, third time I went down Marsh Road.
Sorry about delay, been refurbing the loading port of my 40odd year old BSA Airsporter S rifle. It now has a new detent spring and ball, only a couple of mm diameter. That was fun to find when it inevitably shot across the workshop. Done now, calm has returned and I'm ready for the next rat that comes after the bird feeders. The Airsporter packs quite a punch, my modern air rifle is less certain of a kill, weaker (legal?) spring but nicer to shoot. I hate rats  >:(
Next one is a disused water tower, so no surprise its on a hill! But which one? GSV is very similar to this view, close to a road.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5126 on: August 18, 2021, 02:22:54 PM »
Well done JohnFilmer - Over to you ...


Explanation of my clues.
In 1629, Henry Cuffin, a curate at Ruckinge, was prosecuted by an Archdeacon's Court for playing cricket on Sunday evening after prayers. He claimed that several of his fellow players were "persons of repute and fashion".
I understood that St Mary Magdalene Church steeple was the Ruckinge sighting-point for the Anglo-French Survey.
Ruckinge was an important sighting-point for the Anglo-French Survey (1784–1790), which calculated the precise distance between the Royal Greenwich Observatory and the Paris Observatory, using trigonometry. The main cross-channel sightings were between Dover Castle and Fairlight, East Sussex in England, and Cap Blanc Nez, Calais and Dunkirk in France. A grid of triangles was measured to link these viewpoints, which included two base-lines on Hounslow Heath and Romney Marsh. Ruckinge was the north-western point of the Romney Marsh base-line; the south-eastern end was at High Nook near Dymchurch.
The nearby historical waterway is the Royal Military Canal which runs very close to the village.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5125 on: August 18, 2021, 01:37:36 PM »
Like all these things they are only simple when you know the answer...


I have found it, Methodist Church, Marsh Road, Ruckinge.


Now all I need is for JW to explain his clues :-\
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