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KeithG

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #528 on: December 27, 2019, 01:11:10 PM »
Woolpack Inn Benover Road Benover

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #527 on: December 27, 2019, 12:09:10 PM »
Again, quite close KeithG. You and JW are both in the right general area.
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KeithG

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #526 on: December 27, 2019, 11:34:25 AM »
Tickled Trout Lower Road West Farleigh?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #525 on: December 26, 2019, 08:03:19 PM »
Quite close JW, but at the moment anywhere too close to Yalding would be under water rather than next to it!
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #524 on: December 26, 2019, 07:46:06 PM »
No luck in my searches so far.


Yalding area?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #523 on: December 25, 2019, 04:11:42 PM »
Sorry about that MartinR but it's such a distinctive building that I knew it straight away. I must investigate Lambert Mews, as the yard through the opening was then Avenue Engineering (Boss Ted Lambert) during my time working there. The Dixonheat offices were best described as ramshackle, and the wall to the left hand side was painted ragstone internally, slightly damp and paint always flaking away.
Happy days though, a good office atmosphere (unless the drains were blocked!) and I met my wife there, she lived along the Holborough Road, and here we are 43years later cooking Xmas dinner together.
Anyway - next one. This is still a pub, though slightly altered. Photo taken in 1938, the ladies are my Grandmother, her sister and her neice who were both over from South Africe on a visit. Mid Kent, on a B road, and near water (but not next to it).
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #522 on: December 24, 2019, 07:51:56 PM »
An afternoon looking for the unusual and John gets it in under 2 hrs.  Grr! ;)
To all contestants: A happy Christmas to you all and I'll try to confound you next year.

 

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #521 on: December 24, 2019, 05:21:26 PM »
Queens Avenue, Snodland. Was the old public bathhouse.


I worked next door at 23 when it was Dixonheat 1972-80 and it was still in use then, I think.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #520 on: December 24, 2019, 03:41:17 PM »
A nice two parter here.  Where is it, and what was it originally?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #519 on: December 24, 2019, 07:55:25 AM »
Yes Martin R well deducted, Mrs Stewie, my father and me visited here in October, over to you.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #518 on: December 23, 2019, 06:44:37 PM »
The furniture looks to be the same as a Chartwell, the blinds look "Nation Trust" style, so I'm guessing it is Churchill's home at Chartwell.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #517 on: December 23, 2019, 06:39:21 PM »
The three windows -- remind me of the old NAAFI Club -- for some reason -- right or wrong.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #516 on: December 23, 2019, 04:03:27 PM »
I pass this almost every day so it was instantly recognisable to me! Hoping this wont last long so nothing cryptic, Where is this fine room?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #515 on: December 23, 2019, 10:31:20 AM »
Yes.  I was hoping the unusual view might confuse folks, but you're all too sharp.  Over to you.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #514 on: December 23, 2019, 07:36:25 AM »
The top of Chatham Town Hall (or the Brook Theatre)?