Guess the Place

[KeithG]

Sorry John not Ramsgate...


All the trees are now gone.

[John Walker]

Has a look of Ramsgate.


La Belle Alliance Square ?

[KeithG]

I fully agree with what you say but my meaning of
"too deep" does not at all help the location of the guess

[MartinR]

The shadow is short which implies near midday, hence my approximation.  Certainly between 1000 and 1400 local, probably 1100 to 1300.  You've got tennis courts marked out on what appears to be grass and the trees are in full leaf so probably summer.  Not much digging at all.

[KeithG]

Not being rude at all but sometimes digging tooooooo deep is not the easiest way!


As it happens the picture is North to the top of the page but the shadows depend what time of day it is which i thought would be obvious


Even if the North was not top of the page the South West of the picture is surely roughly 40 mins past 12 ?

The shape of what you see is basically the same just newer buildings

[MartinR]

"Natural navigation" would suggest that south lies to the bottom right of the picture.  Look at the shadow cast by the post bottom centre.

[CAT]

That doesn't help as from your picture which way is north? 

[KeithG]

Yes, coastal...

The only buildings remaining are those on the South West side.

[shoot999]

Interesting buildings and layout. Coastal?

[KeithG]

Thanks for that John.


I lived in Birchington for a few years and worked in a Ramsgate Shopfitting Company. No idea why a Gasometer there?


This is another newspaper scan....but where?

[John Walker]

You have it KeithG.  I believe it is or was at Bromstone Farm.  CAT - you are correct with gasometer base.  The main tank appears to have already gone by 1940.

I'm not sure why a gasometer would have been sited in that semi-rural location although it is on the perimeter of the long gone Ramsgate Airport.



It has more recently been used a reservoir for the farm. 


As this is Guess the Place, the location takes priority so over to you KeithG 

[KeithG]

It is to the East of Pysons Road near where i used to live in the early 1980`s ?


Bit more overgrown now.

[CAT]

I have a vague recollection that I've worked near this, but can't remember where or what it was for. I keep getting drawn to the Manston, Thanet area and it's the base of a gasometer? I'll have to search better for a more precise location and function.

[John Walker]

Not military CAT .   It's location seems a bit rural for what it was originally built for.  There might have been an aviation connection though.

[CAT]

Military?