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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7754 on: December 14, 2022, 07:54:51 PM »
JohnFilmer - A military connection
Grandarog - right part of Kent but not Dover Harbour


Clue:  The dark shape on the right is not a tree.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7753 on: December 14, 2022, 06:39:11 PM »
harbour wall,Dover perhaps.
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Offline johnfilmer

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7752 on: December 14, 2022, 03:01:04 PM »
Military originally?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7751 on: December 13, 2022, 11:58:57 PM »
Here we go with the next one.


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7750 on: December 13, 2022, 07:42:38 PM »
Thanks, JohnFilmer.  I have one ready but I'll hold off for a while in case any members want to add comments to the Borden Grammar GTP.  It looks quite a building.


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Offline johnfilmer

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7749 on: December 13, 2022, 04:20:47 PM »
You have indeed found it JW, but you need to look at the older GSV image to see the building.
Grandarog knows more about this place than me, I believe. After Borden Grammar School moved to its present location in Sittingbourne in 1929 it became the Kent Farm Institute, that later merged with other similar organisations and moved to the present Hadlow site. Latterly it was the Adult Education Centre, and now destined to be converted into flats.
There is You Tube video from the Sittingbourne Heritage Museum about it, but finding it again to link to it defeated me....
I attended BGS between 1962-9 so a bit of its history has been there ever since. That and we frequently zoomed up and down Borden Lane to either the Maypole at Borden, or the Sun at Bredgar. Mind you zoom is a relative word in a Morris 1000! Riddles Road was also a short cut to College Road where we would be on an absolute curfew to get a couple of young ladies home. Happy days  8)
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7748 on: December 13, 2022, 03:55:15 PM »
I think it's the original Borden Grammar School but apart from it being Sittingbourne, I haven't found its exact location - possibly College Road/Riddles Road but I can't see enough detail through the trees on GSV.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7747 on: December 13, 2022, 12:58:58 PM »
Spot on JW
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7746 on: December 13, 2022, 12:33:34 PM »
Sittingbourne area?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7745 on: December 13, 2022, 11:49:13 AM »
No connection to Canterbury that I am aware of.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7744 on: December 12, 2022, 09:48:56 PM »
And after 1929 would it be part of UK at Canterbury or else CCUC?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7743 on: December 12, 2022, 03:51:38 PM »
Yes MartinR, until 1929, but always educational.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7742 on: December 12, 2022, 03:43:29 PM »
A school?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7741 on: December 12, 2022, 02:29:41 PM »
I think that Grandarog has just given everyone a general location clue.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7740 on: December 12, 2022, 01:02:08 PM »
Your'e right too easy ,Pass. :)

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