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Offline johnfilmer

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7807 on: December 28, 2022, 04:29:18 PM »
It’s Fort Halstead, near Sevenoaks
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7806 on: December 28, 2022, 04:11:11 PM »
YMCA ? Tunbridge Wells ?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7805 on: December 28, 2022, 02:55:17 PM »
@John, no, not the River Bourne.  I repeat: "Go west, young man".
@Beachbum, south of the LC&D

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7804 on: December 28, 2022, 02:29:55 PM »
North or South of the London Chatham and Dover Railway?

Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7803 on: December 28, 2022, 12:20:16 PM »
Is the nearby river, the River Bourne that runs near Hadlow at one point ?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7802 on: December 28, 2022, 09:15:39 AM »
"Go west, young man, go west"¹ - well to be accurate it's nearer to WbyN.  :)
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7801 on: December 28, 2022, 12:30:13 AM »
Lenham area?

Offline MartinR

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7800 on: December 27, 2022, 09:40:43 PM »
Right John, you've now solved the clue "There doesn't look to be much there, but that is deceptive".  The Ordnance Survey at that period (and indeed until well after WWII) did not show details of military facilities on public maps.  Shoot, the Medway is nowhere near, but there is another river's headwaters a mile or so away.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7799 on: December 27, 2022, 07:02:47 PM »
River Medway close by?

Offline johnfilmer

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7798 on: December 27, 2022, 06:17:18 PM »
Is it an area blanked out to prevent showing military details?


Maybe a fort or barracks?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7797 on: December 27, 2022, 05:49:42 PM »
No, but the German connection is there, possibly also a French connection.  Keep in mind that the map is from 1892-1914.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7796 on: December 27, 2022, 03:54:42 PM »
Set up as a dummy area to fool the Germans?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7795 on: December 27, 2022, 02:31:33 PM »
Yes

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7794 on: December 27, 2022, 11:25:43 AM »
War related?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #7793 on: December 27, 2022, 10:57:45 AM »
There is one nearby, but unrelated to this particular area.