Author Topic: Guess the Place  (Read 1008694 times)

Offline grandarog

  • Mr
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1200
  • Man of Kent .Born and Bred.
Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #2694 on: August 10, 2020, 09:44:45 AM »
Well Done Diapason,  Local Knowledge goes a long way :) :)
Your Turn.


Offline Diapason

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 458
Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #2693 on: August 10, 2020, 08:24:10 AM »
St. Mary`s Upchurch?

Offline grandarog

  • Mr
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1200
  • Man of Kent .Born and Bred.
Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #2692 on: August 10, 2020, 07:23:07 AM »
Getting nearer keep going.


Offline John Walker

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2809
Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #2691 on: August 09, 2020, 11:22:57 PM »
St Michaels Church, Sittingbourne ?

Offline grandarog

  • Mr
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1200
  • Man of Kent .Born and Bred.
Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #2690 on: August 09, 2020, 06:30:55 PM »
Yes a church clock ,but not Lynsted.


Offline John Walker

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2809
Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #2689 on: August 09, 2020, 06:30:13 PM »
Lynsted Church ?

Offline CAT

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 590
Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #2688 on: August 09, 2020, 03:41:28 PM »
Town hall?

Offline John Walker

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2809
Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #2687 on: August 09, 2020, 03:39:53 PM »
Church?

Offline grandarog

  • Mr
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1200
  • Man of Kent .Born and Bred.
Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #2686 on: August 09, 2020, 01:18:44 PM »
Not a house or garden .can be visited by arrangement. Swale area.

Offline John Walker

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2809
Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #2685 on: August 09, 2020, 12:22:56 PM »
Trying to narrow it down.  Is it in a house/gardens to visit?

Offline grandarog

  • Mr
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1200
  • Man of Kent .Born and Bred.
Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #2684 on: August 09, 2020, 11:37:20 AM »
Thankyou JW


Where did I take this of a magnificent Time Piece.

Offline John Walker

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2809
Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #2683 on: August 08, 2020, 09:53:03 PM »
That's the place Grandarog - well done.


Many Kent bands have used Graveney Village Hall for rehearsals.   In the 70s/80s I was often there taking promo photos and advising on PA gear (I had a music shop).


As far as I know the most famous bands that rehearsed there were Wilde Flowers, Soft Machine and Caravan.  All part of the 'Canterbury Sound'.  Caravan were regulars in my shop.  The drummer, the late Richard Coughlan lived on the same estate as me and we went to primary school together.  We were good mates until the last day of Primary school.  We fell out over something trivial and ended up having a fight.  Both walked into school on our last day covered in blood and were sent home.  We went on to different secondary schools and lost touch for many years.  Richard had two pubs.  One in Ashford and more recently, The Cricketers in Canterbury.  Richard had been unwell for some time and sadly passed in 2014.   Geoff Richardson, the electric viola player and I spent many hours in the early days of home computers, learning BASIC programming.  We had Commodore Pet computers then.


Hastings, Coughlan and the Sinclairs formed Caravan Mk I in 1968, landing a deal with MGM’s Verve Forecast imprint after Island’s Chris Blackwell turned them down. Already penniless they wrote songs while living in tents pitched outside Graveney Village Hall.


https://nostalgiacentral.com/music/artists-a-to-k/artists-c/caravan/


Over to you Grandarog

Offline grandarog

  • Mr
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1200
  • Man of Kent .Born and Bred.
Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #2682 on: August 08, 2020, 08:00:41 PM »
In that case it must be Graveney. my maternal Dixon ancestors home village.

Offline John Walker

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2809
Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #2681 on: August 08, 2020, 05:44:56 PM »
Correct with village hall Pete.  Wrong side of Oare and Faversham Creeks - that should narrow it down :)

pete.mason

  • Guest
Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #2680 on: August 08, 2020, 04:40:17 PM »
Is the creek Oare? Oare Village Hall