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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #283 on: November 18, 2019, 10:48:46 PM »
The Thomas Horn Beam Engine, Bredgar Light Railway ?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #282 on: November 18, 2019, 08:16:22 PM »

That was a `pure` guess, and although I was very unsure, it immediately reminded me of Preston Street.


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #281 on: November 17, 2019, 09:03:35 PM »
You have it ,Diapason.Well done. Over to You

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #280 on: November 17, 2019, 04:37:42 PM »
South end of Preston Street, Faversham, approximately opposite the South East Coachworks.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #279 on: November 17, 2019, 04:08:53 PM »
How about Sittingbourne, opposite the Bull, what was woollies?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #278 on: November 17, 2019, 12:12:47 PM »
Faversham ?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #277 on: November 17, 2019, 11:27:54 AM »
No further east  . Clue ...............Swale area of ME postcode.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #276 on: November 16, 2019, 09:48:49 PM »
Dartford?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #275 on: November 16, 2019, 06:37:30 PM »
Thanks, I wasn't quite sure where it was I new it was somewhere along there.Saw it when we walked along after taking grandchildren to Walmer Castle and Deal to see the Time Ball.
Try this one from early 1900's.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #274 on: November 16, 2019, 06:29:30 PM »
Spot on Grandarog


On the strip of lawn between Beach Road and the beach at Walmer.


The inscription reads.   The first Roman invasion of Britain led by Julius Caesar landed near here LV BC


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #273 on: November 16, 2019, 06:22:13 PM »
That must be  Walmer somewhere on the Beach.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #272 on: November 16, 2019, 04:17:37 PM »
Salt doesn't seem to have affected it.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #271 on: November 15, 2019, 11:30:36 PM »
Thanks CAT - that was a good one.  It didn't look like a match on Google View at first but the long narrow windows gave it away.


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #270 on: November 15, 2019, 04:57:24 PM »
I hope you don't wear large boots John Walker because it is indeed Holy Innocent's Church, Adisham from the north.


A view difficult to get today because of trees and shrubs in the churchyard. The pic I posted is from the late 1850-early 1860's and predates the restoration by the then vicar Rev. Montague Villiers in 1868/9. The chancel roof was replaced with a steeper pitched tile one and the tower was foreshortened and covered with a pyramidal tile roof more akin French roofs than Kent. With regards to the part of the cathedral, The church possesses a portion of the twelfth-century timber altar back, or reredos, salvaged from the cathedral by the then vicar during a remodelling of the cathedral's quoir in the early eighteenth-century.


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #269 on: November 15, 2019, 04:44:14 PM »
Pending confirmation from Cat, I think you have it; well done.  See the illustration at the foot of https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/arch-cant/vol/14/adisham-church for a post-Victorian restoration view.  Earlier in the article there is also a line drawing of the reredos.  There's a description of it pre-"restoration" at https://archive.org/details/notesonchurcheso00glyn/page/244