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Online MartinR

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1960 on: May 24, 2020, 03:31:54 PM »
Just outside 10 Station Road.  I assume the castle is Bodiam - devious!

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1959 on: May 24, 2020, 02:55:54 PM »
Its the road to Tenterden Station the clues were all there and being drip fed.  Over to you KeithG :)

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1958 on: May 24, 2020, 02:48:29 PM »
Only my opinion ... but putting up a picture of a "Road" idea seems very inadequate for such a good type of game? 


There are plenty of images of places and buildings on Google to use to guess where they are, but to just have a picture of a road is not easy to find at all especially when it could be Summer or Winter?


Let`s get back to what Guess The Place use to be which made it more interesting?


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1957 on: May 24, 2020, 02:33:53 PM »
Queenborough?  Castle, glue works

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1956 on: May 24, 2020, 01:41:51 PM »
There might be a farm stall somewhere down there Castle261 but that's not the answer :) - Something far more interesting is what you're looking for.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1955 on: May 24, 2020, 01:40:16 PM »
And some nostalgic smells ...

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1954 on: May 24, 2020, 11:29:05 AM »
Discovering the town would be a big clue as to what is at the end of this road.  Depending on your decision you could find a museum or a castle.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1953 on: May 24, 2020, 10:43:54 AM »
John only asked `what is there of interest at the end of this road -- A farm stall ?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1952 on: May 23, 2020, 10:47:04 PM »
Not Canterbury MartinR


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1951 on: May 23, 2020, 02:14:04 PM »
Well since it's you I start with a guess at Canterbury.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1950 on: May 23, 2020, 01:42:22 PM »
A fascinating GTP MartinR.  It took some finding and a lot learned on the way.




Next one ...


What is there of interest at the end of this road ?  (I borrowed your idea MartinR :)  )

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1949 on: May 23, 2020, 12:22:41 PM »
IIRC that was Enrico Fermi, he died less than a decade later of stomach cancer.  He did a vast amount of research both in Italy and the US.  The element Fermium is named after him, as is the Fermi Constant describing the weak nuclear force.  He is often called "the father of the nuclear age" for it was he who designed and brought to fruition the Chicage squash court reactor - the first artificial chain reaction.

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« Reply #1948 on: May 23, 2020, 11:42:18 AM »
An exellent book-- ` Trinity ` -- tells of the making of the Atom Bomb -- from A to B.
The Italian scientist Enrico -- nearly caused the first explosion - in the desert.
He stopped the two main ingredients from meeting -- with a screwdriver.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1947 on: May 23, 2020, 09:13:06 AM »
That's the place John.
  • The connection to Manhattan is that Project Manhattan was the first atomic bomb, and Dr. Penney came back from the States and continued the work at Fort Halstead (under the name "High Explosive Research") to make the UK's bomb.
  • Beeching worked at the Fort.
  • A hill like a head is Poll Hill ("poll" being an old name for a head).
  • You got the counted trees.
  • Halstead =  hald (refuge, shelter, healthy) and stede (site, place or farm), and the Fort was originally build in the very late C19 to protect London from invasion.
  • E Nesbit lived in Halstead village where she may have written the Railway Children  but there are rival locations!
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halstead,_Kent and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Halstead for more details.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1946 on: May 23, 2020, 01:01:33 AM »
The Railway Children and Nuclear weapons - a very strange combination!