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UNKNOWN LOCATION 9

Can anyone identify this location and pub please?

SOLVED:-

The Carpenter's Arms

102 Black Griffin Lane

Canterbury

Unknown pub 1966

Just received an email from Terrence Thomas, who would like to know the location of this pub. I'd like to know that and the name of it as well. He says the picture was taken in 1966 and is somewhere between Dover and London, but he believes it's in the Dover to Canterbury area. One clue is the derelict area to the left that could be a bomb clearance site.

I would say the pub was built at the turn of the 1900s as both the "Crown and Sceptre" and "Diamond" in Dover look similar.

 

From an Email received on 30 July, 2011.

Hello Paul,

What a fantastic site!! You really must get a life lol. I have spent the last 2 hours reliving my life in long forgotten pubs (mostly Sandwich).

I looked at the unknown building 9 and was hit with a huge bout of deja vu.

I have never been to this pub, or indeed down the road where it is but have driven past the top of the road hundreds of times and glanced down the road and always felt it was one of those places you must go to some time.

It is the "Carpenters Arms" in Black Griffin Lane in Canterbury - just round the corner from the Westgate towers.#

Keep up the good work!!

Clive Phelan, Folkestone.

Carperter's Arms Canterbury 2011 Carpenter's Arms, Canterbury 2011

Above pictures from Google Maps 2011.

Looks like a lot of changes in the area today from the top photo. The house on the right of the original picture has another built next to it now, the road has moved to the left and now continues through the house on the left of the pub on the top photo.

 

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