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Offline MartinR

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8420 on: May 12, 2023, 05:47:37 PM »
Time for a hint: from this location you can see another county and a river.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8419 on: May 11, 2023, 08:18:41 PM »
Well Stewie, you've got the flint blade (I think it's a scraper, but knife is close enough).  Oi, Johnfilmer: leave my wheels out of this! :P

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8418 on: May 11, 2023, 05:59:54 PM »
Anything to do with animals - tannery etc.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8417 on: May 11, 2023, 05:22:19 PM »
Remote Control for the mobility scooter?   😀😀
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8416 on: May 11, 2023, 04:20:30 PM »
Looks like a flint knife or blade.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8415 on: May 11, 2023, 03:04:28 PM »
In a sense, yes.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8414 on: May 11, 2023, 11:43:06 AM »
No idea where this carving is so far.

Is it a tool in the fist?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8413 on: May 10, 2023, 10:43:07 PM »
Right, where's this fist and what is it holding?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8412 on: May 10, 2023, 09:31:31 PM »
I have spent many an hour lurking by this, waiting for the then manual crossing gates to open.

At one time a friend and his wife lived on an old Broads Cruiser moored just along from this, always interesting, building.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8411 on: May 10, 2023, 09:25:22 PM »
You have it MartinR. So the Chimney was an Obelisk. The Maidstone Waterworks was built in 1860 and the Chimney removed around 1900

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8410 on: May 10, 2023, 09:04:28 PM »
Former pumping station at East Farleigh.  Location:
  • Nat Grid:                  TQ7345453552
  • Nearest Post Code:  ME16 9NB
  • Co-ords (WGS84):   51°15'17"N,000°29'03"E or 51.254751,0.484270
Here's an illustration of it with its missing "unusual feature", in reality a stack: https://s3.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/lbimg/101/263/788/101263788-135544-800.jpg

It's grade II listed, official listing here: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1263788?section=official-list-entry and a more detailed description here: https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/photos/item/IOE01/04236/26

A further Historic England entry adds the following:
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The waterworks was built in 1860 in an Egyptian style. It provided water to Maidstone which, in 1897, suffered one of the worst outbreaks of typhoid in the country. Polluted spring water entered the waterworks which failed to filter out the bacteria and the supply was not turned off soon enough. It was later used as a coachworks and joinery.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8409 on: May 10, 2023, 08:46:37 PM »
You need to power a pumping station, so a chimney?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8408 on: May 10, 2023, 08:35:50 PM »
River: Medway?
Influence: Egyptian?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8407 on: May 10, 2023, 08:33:32 PM »
The Buttresses appear to be part of the design influence (overseas) and in keeping with the missing feature

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #8406 on: May 10, 2023, 08:29:29 PM »
Beside a well known River..........