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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #232 on: November 08, 2019, 12:59:35 PM »
Not Tenterden Stuartwaters - Head North West a good few miles.  I believe it's the High Weald area.


One of our active members was within a stones throw of this church earlier in the year ;)

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #231 on: November 08, 2019, 12:20:09 PM »
I'll hazard a guess and say St Mildred's church in Tenterden.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #230 on: November 08, 2019, 08:58:09 AM »
Yes CAT - West of Ashford and what I believe is 'Weald' country.

One of our members should get this quickly :D

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #229 on: November 08, 2019, 06:52:45 AM »
Wealden church (west of Ashford)?


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #228 on: November 08, 2019, 03:14:09 AM »
Thanks CAT


Next one ...  Name and Where?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #227 on: November 07, 2019, 05:11:20 PM »
I'm not going to quibble about front or rear, it's the south-eastern corner tower of Cooling Castle. Correctly mentioned that it was built for the Cobham family in the last quarter of the fourteenth-century as a defence of the southern side of the Thames Estuary. Then the marshes to the north were not so well developed and an open water course extended from the Estuary up to the Castle.


Masonry has fallen from the eastern tower of the main south gate, but this is in the process of being restored at the moment.


You have it John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #226 on: November 06, 2019, 11:06:47 PM »
Is it a tower at the rear of Cooling Castle?  Built by or for the Cobhams.   I think masonry fell from one of the front towers a year or so ago?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #225 on: November 06, 2019, 10:15:45 PM »
Many thanks Diapason. I knew I'd seen the building somewhere on my work travels, which was about 2 years ago.


My next is my current work travels, but where and who was it built for?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #224 on: November 06, 2019, 06:55:13 AM »

Well guessed CAT.


Picture taken last year on my first visit to Minster, my father`s birthplace and where my grandfather was engineer at the Minster Laundry.


The old Laundry.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #223 on: November 04, 2019, 01:49:20 PM »
Sorry, should have said the former 'The White Horse', as I think it's now closed?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #222 on: November 04, 2019, 01:45:57 PM »
Sorry John Walker, I think I'm going to snatch it from you?

The White Horse, Church Street, Minster (Thanet). If correct, its a bit crafty as its been blanked out on Google Streetview.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #221 on: November 04, 2019, 09:17:09 AM »
If there haven't been any further guesses by this evening, I'll put my guess in to keep things moving.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #220 on: November 02, 2019, 01:55:06 PM »
Wrong Abbey!

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #219 on: October 31, 2019, 10:27:13 AM »
Abbey makes me think of Minster-in-Sheppey, but that's only a guess.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #218 on: October 31, 2019, 10:11:11 AM »
I should have got this one straight away - I lived 3 minutes walk from it a few year ago!!!
I won't put a 'guess' forward as it wouldn't be a Guess :)