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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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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 John 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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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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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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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #199 on: October 25, 2019, 11:12:54 AM »
Is this a private chapel/church?
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Offline MartinR

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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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Offline Local Hiker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #197 on: October 25, 2019, 10:10:32 AM »
Spot on MartinR. A little gem hidden on the Downs. I really enjoyed my day there.

This is my record of the day...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjXTBsIR0EBXeWFQHvYqt4GuP68qgdNtu


Over to you.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #196 on: October 25, 2019, 09:34:53 AM »
Looks like the Bredgar & Wormshill Light Railway.
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Offline CAT

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #195 on: October 25, 2019, 09:21:18 AM »
Is this the Norton Ash Miniture Railway at Brogdale, Faversham?

I must confess that until looking for this, I knew nothing of it either.
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« Reply #194 on: October 25, 2019, 08:58:05 AM »
John Walker, thanks.
The filter to "age" your photo is quite effective.
I wondered about the cape; it did not look like a normal dog coat.

I have a change of tack now.
I had a fun day back in 2016. Where was I? I was completely amazed. I did not know the place existed a few days before, and I am quite a train buff.
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #193 on: October 25, 2019, 01:23:54 AM »
You have it Local hiker - Quex House


My sister and Brother in Law - 1940s re-enactors.  The cape on the dog is to carry water bottles if they find someone trapped.


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« Reply #192 on: October 24, 2019, 11:16:25 PM »
Says "Taken at Quex House near Birchington Kent." on the link, 20th May 2013. What is the dog wearing?
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #191 on: October 24, 2019, 11:08:00 PM »
Yes, that's my photo Local Hiker - one of my 6000+ images with Alamy under my Bax Walker Images pseudonym.  I was covering a 1940s event.  :)


But where was it taken?
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