Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
"Oh! I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside!" - and so say we all
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Our base for the weekend, The Pegwell Bay Hotel (photo by Roger Johnson)
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The view across Pegwell Bay from the hotel (photo by Heather Owen)
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The Sir Stanley Gray pub is just across the road, and the hotel's function rooms are immediately underneath it! (photo by Roger Johnson)
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The 18th century Belle Vue Tavern, next door to the Sir Stanley Gray, has entertained both smugglers and royalty (photo by Roger Johnson)
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A rough clifftop path runs from near the hotel for about a mile to Cliffsend. The views along the way are spectacular (photo by Roger Johnson)
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Pegwell Bay from the clifftop path (photo by Roger Johnson)
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Looking back to the Pegwell Bay Hotel from the clifftop path (photo by Roger Johnson)
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At Cliffsend is the Viking ship "Hugin". By the water's edge below is the site of the Ramsgate Hoverport, operational from 1969 to 1981 (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
1500 years after the landing of Hengist & Horsa in Kent, a crew sailed from Denmark in "Hugin" in 1949. Prince Georg of Denmark unveiled this stone to mark the occasion (photo by Roger Johnson)
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The Danish sailors aboard "Hugin" had only a sextant to help them navigate (photo by Roger Johnson)
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Fortunately the Viking ship "Hugin" came in peace (photo by Roger Johnson)
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The National Cycle Network runs past the Viking ship at Cliffsend (photo by Roger Johnson)
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Enjoying the evening sun on the balcony of the restaurant: Chris Seymour, MC Black, Carole & Calvert Markham, Ashley Mayo and Dena Howlett (photo by Roger Johnson)
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Dena Howlett & Catherine Cooke (photo by Roger Johnson)
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Auberon Redfearn & Carole Markham (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Auberon Redfearn, Carole Markham, Bill Haynes & Calvert Markham (photo by Roger Johnson)
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Ritsuko Furuta & Jean Upton; behind them are John Morewood & Robin Rowles (photo by Roger Johnson)
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Maxine Reneker & Amy Buckley (photo by Roger Johnson)
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Sunset over Pegwell Bay (photo by Heather Owen)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Sunset over Pegwell Bay (photo by Roger Johnson)
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Unfortunately Mr Holmes didn't make it! (photo by Heather Owen)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Marcus Geisser welcomes members and guests to Kent, a county familiar to Holmes, Watson and Conan Doyle (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Marcus Geisser reminds us that the cases of Jonathan Small, Hugh Boone, Lady Brackenstall, Professor Coram, John Douglas, and ex-Professor Moriarty all brought Holmes to Kent (photo by Roger Johnson)
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There's much conversation over dinner - though some prefer to concentrate on the food and drink (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
After that excellent meal, Catherine Cooke looks at the location of Birlstone Manor - Sussex or Kent? (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Catherine Cooke proves that Groombridge Place in Kent is incontrovertibly the real Birlstone Manor (photo by Roger Johnson)
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After that scholarly entertainment, there's time for a drink and a chat (photo by Roger Johnson)