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Thank you for that wander around Sandwich,DG. It's a town I've often visited when himself has been playing bowls on the green hard by the town wall, at the end of Mill Wall. I find something new each time I visit and I feel another visit is due. 😉
Jo W | 12.09.17 - 7:27 a.m. | #
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Lovely - given the age of the volunteers you encountered, you won't get this version of an open day for very much longer, this may well change the 'terroir' of Sandwich to something less welcoming.
Still anon | 12.09.17 - 7:42 a.m. | #
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No visit to Steph and Dom at The Salutation, then? (Another relatively recent intrusion, but it is by Lutyens.)
dg writes: Wasn't on the Heritage Open Days list. Luxury boutique hotels with fine-dining restaurants and sumptuous gardens tend not to join these things.
Andrew | 12.09.17 - 8:27 a.m. | #
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There's rather an amusing sign at the junction of Northbourne Lane and West Street, about 3 miles due south and very slightly west of Sandwich.....
Stephen | 12.09.17 - 8:54 a.m. | #
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We spent a lovely week last October half-term with our son and his family in a rented house in Kingsdown (just south of Deal).
This was an ideal centre for day trips going north and south.
We went to Richborough Fort (we are members of English Heritage) fairly early one morning and we were the only people there - maybe because it was drizzling a bit. It's huge! An impressive site with many information boards to guide you around.
We then went to Sandwich and saw some of the buildings you went in. We did go in the Guildhall though and walked through the gate by the Quay.
I agree that it's a lovely place which deserves a second visit.
John Simmons | 12.09.17 - 9:40 a.m. | #
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If you're curious, Stephen at 8:54 meant this one: https://goo.gl/maps/jcHTYYeFKb92
No cheese for me | 12.09.17 - 10:36 a.m. | #
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Haha! The town was just crying out for such a sign!!
Sounds delightful and added to my list!! Holding a mace that has been touched by both you and QE1 sealed it for me!
Cornish Cockney | 12.09.17 - 11:06 a.m. | #
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A certain Dr Brian Richards' surgery used to be in The Butchery http://bufvc.ac.uk/tvandradio/lbc/index.php/segment/0007200248008
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The big rock symbolizes the novice Mason - unhewn. The object of the Craft is to move towards a state of enlightenment and personal perfection, symbolized by a finished, worked/dressed stone. The checkered carpet symbolizes the dichotomy of the above - moving from a state of darkness (ignorance) to light (knowledge and enlightenment). I am not a Mason, but am the son of a Past Master and member since 1970. Nice post on Sandwich, know it well - one of Kent's hidden gems.
Burntweenie | 12.09.17 - 4:15 p.m. | #
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Great post. Another place on the must visit list. Thank you.
Bernie | 12.09.17 - 4:31 p.m. | #
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Very evocative. Thankyou.
One detail missing - what did you have for lunch?
drD | Homepage | 12.09.17 - 5:26 p.m. | #
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Lunch? Sadly not what you'd expect.
Three of Granny's Sausage Rolls from the Farmers Market, then a bag of chips from Ossie's opposite.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 12.09.17 - 5:36 p.m. | #
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Have walked from Deal to Sandwich. Thoroughly enjoyable and found Sandwich as agreeable as DG has described. But didn't know anything about the insides of those buildings. So thanks for that and more thanks for the advisory on SE Trains' £10 deal. To Deal. Which me and the mrs will be taking up.
Julian | 21.09.17 - 5:23 p.m. | #
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