deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
The top of Oxleas meadows. I don't think Sevendroog had been renovated when I last went past it, let alone have a café.
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biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Watched it again earlier tonight on catch up and it all makes sense now
To stop it's rims free getting ruined
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
It's funny, I've got ÂŁ125 worth waiting for me. That's a lot of shopping!
The café is still there and still only takes cash. Mind you, I haven't been there in the last 50 years
Top sledging runs down to what used to be the POW camp by the old A2, though đź›·
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
I never knew that it had been a POW camp. At the foot of the meadows by the Rochester Way? There's only one building remaining but it looked more like some old council ''recreational'' building from what I remember of it. I might just wander over there tomorrow and take another look.The café is still there and still only takes cash. Mind you, I haven't been there in the last 50 years
Top sledging runs down to what used to be the POW camp by the old A2, though đź›·
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Oh, forgot to mention earlier that I put my green wheelie bin out for collection in the morning. Not the black bag though, there's hardly anything in it.
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
Menu probably has not changed much. Place appears to be the same, food likewise. Could go lawn bowling and revisit the old sprangle if I so desired.
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
Reminds me of the time my dad took us to the new community college. My ma took one look at it, and said;
"Oh, this was were we kept the Germans during the war. They were made to pick and process vegetables"
There used to be a row of asbestos prefabs just to the east of the last houses. They're long gone, understandably! You might find out something locally, but I think it was all turned into parkland after the war.
The other nearby POW camp was at Woodlands Farm just up the hill from the We Anchor in Hope pub.
Let me know if you find anything, please.. 👍🏼
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
Sprangle is a word I've never seen before so I looked it up and I'm still none the wiser. Is it a ramshackle, sprawling place?
classic33
Leg End Member
Await your review with interest.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
Looking at Google satellite view there's a row of smallish trees about 2/3rds over to the west of the meadow. I wonder whether that was the camp's perimeter. It used to be the standard way out to Kent from where I lived in Greenwich, but I can't recall any buildings or remains thereof over there.
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
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- Land of Lincoln
Yes, it is. Peoria metroplex is a ramshackle, sprawling place. From whence I sprang.
BTW, my ma was wrong about the POW camp, Camp Libby (guess why), because it was actually in the nearby community of Washington, right in town. Since my dad was gone fighting in the Pacific, he didn't know there were even prisoners around. Considering this part of Illinois has a lot of people of German heritage, seemed like an odd place to plunk down one large and several smaller camps. Especially close to the aptly named Germantown.
https://www.pjstar.com/article/20160514/NEWS/160519644
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
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- Land of Lincoln
I think I am exiled from Pekin.
Lots of good reasons, probably.
classic33
Leg End Member
Get in and out before they realise.