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Many thanks for spotting this - I can't get beyond the photograph and the first three paragraphs because of the paywall, but it's good to see the bines (literally) in hand at Stocks Farm! Coronavirus: new pickers join the land army, but farmers’ ranks still have many gapsOriginally Posted by Wittenden
Finding an industrial oast
This one is difficult to photograph (being somewhat hidden away within an agglomeration of farm buildings and former tied cottages), but it is another - if short-lived 1960s - example of an industrial oast:
However, once you've spotted the roof vent, and then look back from further up the road you start to get a better view, and then then taking a diversion up a footpath you get the clearest (if partial and distant) view.
Last edited by rpadam; 26-04-2020 at 21:51.
Has anyone opened a micro pub or possibly a micro brewers tasting room in a former oast ?
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Oh no it's not!
What do you make of this building?
It certainly looks like an oast (minus its five cowls) from a distance, but as you get closer you realise that it is a new 'inspired by' architect-designed cruciform mansion.
Last edited by rpadam; 28-04-2020 at 21:42.
Not that I can recall, but just thinking about the question has triggered my post-traumatic stress disorder caused by this little horror...
There must have been a subliminal recollection of this place as I have used London Bridge a lot over the years,as you say best forgotten.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Another odd one
What do you make of this place?
Perhaps a pair of very plain semi-detached farm cottages? But what about that odd extension at the front?
Yes it is a former oast, this time of the 1950s variety, with the first-floor stage for unloading green hops in pokes and loading dried hops in pockets, although its original purpose is far from obvious since it has lost what once have been a roof vent when it was converted.
Workshops? Anyway, if it is were I think it is, near the Onion pub.What do you make of this place?
Perhaps a pair of very plain semi-detached farm cottages? But what about that odd extension at the front?
Yes it is a former oast, this time of the 1950s variety, with the first-floor stage for unloading green hops in pokes and loading dried hops in pockets, although its original purpose is far from obvious since it has lost what once have been a roof vent when it was converted.
"At that moment I would have given a kingdom, not for champagne or hock and soda, or hot coffee but for a glass of beer" Marquess Curzon of Kedlestone, Viceroy of India.
Not exactly near the Onion pub, although it could be walked at a push (if keen and fit, with a good knowledge of the back roads and footpaths).
However, I have an inkling of the one you may be thinking of, with this now being so non-descript that we must have cycled past it a few weeks ago without thinking of stopping because there might be something to photograph!
No,it's not the one I was thinking about;that's even more workshop-like. same vintage, though.
"At that moment I would have given a kingdom, not for champagne or hock and soda, or hot coffee but for a glass of beer" Marquess Curzon of Kedlestone, Viceroy of India.
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