OT; I'd love to know the story...

[The Medway Handyman]

If you insist on being picky :-) this is the link that appears

[The Medway Handyman]

Will you stop moving Rochester! :-)

[The Medway Handyman]

It did.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "The Medway Handyman" saying something like:

In Google Maps, drag the item to approx the middle, and right click, then click on the yellow pushpin symbol. A box opens up with the lat and long in it. Copy and paste.

ie. 51°23'23.26"N 0°30'13.27"E for the middle of Rochester High St.

Yours would be in the middle of Paris, for some reason. :) The bloody French, they always wanted the meridian.

[The Medway Handyman]

Where would we be without rules?

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "The Medway Handyman" saying something like:

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Grimly Curmudgeon saying something like:

Blast! Google Earth.

[Tim Streater]

Look, if the Giant Brain says Rochester is in the North Sea near Scarborough, who am I to argue?

[Owain]

Well, at least we're fairly consistently in the northern hemisphere.

Owain

[The Medway Handyman]

Fair enough :-)

[The Natural Philosopher]

My guess was that someone got fed up with stuff being nicked from his garage.

I bet the fence will come down when his project Lamborghini replica is ready to roll.

[dennis]

Its nowhere near Paris, you just entered it wrong. Try +51° 23' 08.91" +0° 30' 25.53" or is it +51° 23' 08.91" -0° 30' 25.53"

[John]

I just love that video - There is justice after all!

[ARWadsworth]

----- Original Message ----- From: "The Medway Handyman" Newsgroups: uk.d-i-y Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 11:48 PM Subject: Re: OT; I'd love to know the story...

Back of Blue Rays restaurant?

or

[Mike Clarke]

Very odd, the line of weeds along the bottom of the wall looks well established and suggests the wall's been there some time but the paintwork on the door and sign looks very clean and new, more recent than the wall even?

[The Medway Handyman]

Its very odd. The wall actually looks new, as does the sign. Having seen both in the flesh I couldn't say what was done first.

Next time I'm there I'm gonna have to knock on some doors...

[Andrew Gabriel]

My guess is the garage was erected and opens on to someone else's land to which no right of way nor any other access was agreed.

Reminds me of a friend who bought a house where someone had added a window on the party wall without planning permission, when the adjoining house was demolished. Friend's solicitor checked with planning, and they said they wouldn't do anything about it, but when application was made to rebuild the adjoining house as it likely would be at some point, no account would be taken of the unapproved window and it would likely be blocked off.

[Chris J Dixon]

How about this, which always intrigued me as a kid:

owner of the property on the left clearly didn't want to be overlooked from the house on the right. This was never ever part of a building, just a freestanding wall. From my personal knowledge it has stood for 55 year, and it wasn't new when I first saw it.

Chris

[ARWadsworth]

I have wondered why it was there when I have passed it.

And what about this one

have never been any steps up to that door to the best of my knowledge

Adam

[The Natural Philosopher]

That looks like either a doorway to a next door that's gone, or a fire exit..removed presumably as a security measure.