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Re: 1933 town in Sussex or Kent maybe? Help me please.
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 23 March 17 22:41 GMT (UK) »
Similar apart from the top of the tower. Strange why we all have a the same idea!
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Re: 1933 town in Sussex or Kent maybe? Help me please.
« Reply #10 on: Friday 24 March 17 08:17 GMT (UK) »
Similar apart from the top of the tower. Strange why we all have a the same idea!

Hastings was my first thought too  ;D ;D
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Re: 1933 town in Sussex or Kent maybe? Help me please.
« Reply #11 on: Friday 24 March 17 09:48 GMT (UK) »
The construction at the back looks like a pumping station. You can just make out the pump housing in the centre with supporting columns on the outside.
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Re: 1933 town in Sussex or Kent maybe? Help me please.
« Reply #12 on: Friday 24 March 17 10:00 GMT (UK) »
This is the pumping station in Alexandra Park, Hastings, so not that unless it was rebuilt.

http://www.1066online.co.uk/gallery/old-photos/alexandra-park-pumping-station-1908
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« Reply #13 on: Friday 24 March 17 11:33 GMT (UK) »
Probably sounds daft,but my first reaction to the structure was-gasometer!

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« Reply #14 on: Friday 24 March 17 13:41 GMT (UK) »
I'm really struggling to see it as anything other than a church tower, particularly since there's something next to it that looks like a church's nave. Handypandy's tweaking in reply #1 and jim1's in #2 bring it out well.

I'd wondered about Hastings too - we once lived fairly near and made many visits when thinking of buying a house there, though we didn't in the end. But I haven't found anything that looks right. Given that it was taken in 1933, might any churches have been demolished since then, because of either war damage or redundancy?
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Re: 1933 town in Sussex or Kent maybe? Help me please.
« Reply #15 on: Friday 24 March 17 14:02 GMT (UK) »
Interesting comment, Arthurk, as I've read that St John the Evangelist in St Leonards on Sea was damaged during WW2.  I've found some 3 storey houses in Church Street, however the photo shows 2 storeys, I think.  I haven't included the basement though. 
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Re: 1933 town in Sussex or Kent maybe? Help me please.
« Reply #16 on: Friday 24 March 17 14:24 GMT (UK) »
Interesting comment, Arthurk, as I've read that St John the Evangelist in St Leonards on Sea was damaged during WW2.  I've found some 3 storey houses in Church Street, however the photo shows 2 storeys, I think.  I haven't included the basement though. 

I don't think it's that church - according to various online sources, the tower was one of the few bits that survived the bombing, and it's a rather distinctive octagonal shape.

But I've been having a few more thoughts. Leaving aside the question of how your grandmother came to be visiting a boy's Catholic school on a Saturday in September 1933 (though the nature of her trip might provide a clue as to where else she might have gone), she must have travelled between the locations on either Saturday 16th or Sunday 17th. (I'm assuming the figures in the file name are a date.) So, by train? - Mayfield station was on the line from Eridge (SW of Tunbridge Wells) to Polegate (N of Eastbourne), with connections at the northern end to Tunbridge Wells, Tonbridge, Croydon and south London, and at the southern end to the line running along the coast. Just a small area, then  :)

Anyway, back to the photo: the terraced houses look to be clean and in good condition, so probably fairly recently built. My memory is that a lot of the housing of that type in the coastal towns is older than that, so is this more likely to be commuterland - somewhere in south London?
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Re: 1933 town in Sussex or Kent maybe? Help me please.
« Reply #17 on: Friday 24 March 17 14:42 GMT (UK) »
Although the building in front looks like a church, it doesn't seem right for a church tower to me. Could it be part of college buildings?
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