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To me it looks like JCC. I believe it started life as a tankard and the spout was added later, quite common in those days.
AJ

Possibly at the top of King Street, Deal, in Kent. The building on the left looks like Dola Dairies and the building on the corner was a Chemist. The white building on the opposite corner became an amusement arcade.
The black and white structures look temporary and I don't know what they are.
The clothes suggest 1940's.
Regards
AJ

In 1946 my late father announced to my mother that he had bought Borley Rectory. She was not amused. She didn't want to live in a haunted house, particularly as her daughter was due back from Argentina, where she had been staying with friends during the war and was due back imminently. Plus she had me, as a two year old to consider. She needn't have worried. The Rectory had burned down and most of the rubble cleared away so we were living in the Rectory Cottage, beside the Rectory.
It proved to be more of a nuisance than anything, with people wanting to spend the night in the grounds to 'see the ghost'. Of course they never did.
An RAF pal of my father's came round one evening and, on his departure, covered himself with a sheet and jumped out at a young couple walking down the road, who ran off screaming 'we've seen the ghost!' This increased the number of people wanting to stay overnight, much to my parents' annoyance and the RAF chum was thenceforth in the doghhouse.
Just stories told to me by my parents - you may or may not find them interesting,
Regards
AJ

Mallow Castle was in the Jephson family for several hundred years. The original castle, owned by the Desmonds, fell into disrepair and was demolished by Norreys, having been gifted the castle by Elizabeth 1 along with a pair of white deer, the descendants of which still occupy the castle grounds today. Norreys used the stones from Desmond's castle to build his own castle, really a fortified house, on the same site. This was completed around 1590 and was burnt down on the orders of one Preston in 1743. The owner, Jephson-Norreys, built a new castle by converting the stable block of the old castle which still stands today. Coincidentally, the Prteston that ordered the destruction of the original castle was an ancestor of Brigadier Maurice Jephson's mother, Mary Ellen Preston.
Successive members of the family inherited,none of which had very much money until Brigadier Maurice Denham Jephson inherited from Anna Jephson and made changes with his wife's money. She was the daughter of William Gallagher of the tobacco empire. She was responsible for the present entrance tower and other amendments.
Maurice Jephson was my great uncle and invited my parents and I to stay there in the 1950's. An experience I shall always remember. Maurice showed me where the kitchen floor had been lowered and revealed the top of a secret passage lining up with the old castle and continuing outside. Apparently, there was a builder's lorry parked outside and suddenly sank into the ground being parked on top  of a junction of five passages. Maurice had it all filled in. I was not impressed. As a teenager the first thing I would have done would be to find out where they went.
There was a well at the old castle -  a sunken stone lined rectangular depression that housed the well and I imagine was used as a laundry, the well itself being over to one side. When I was there the floor of the old castle was a foot deep in mud and inhabited by a rather lonely donkey. The mud has now all gone, I suspect being used to fill in the place where the well was and now no trace of the well remains.
On their death in a plane crash in 1968, Maurice and Eileen, his wife, left the castle to another Maurice Jephson, a distant cousin, having first offered it to my uncle and my mother, Maurice's sister's two surviving children. Neither wanted it so the other Maurice had it. He sold off some of the land before selling it to an American.
My wife and I visited Mallow two years ago with my daughter and both ladies fell in love with the place and the castle but I thought how sad it was that the interior had deteriorated so much.
Kind Regards
AJ

Have any of you clever people heard of or know anything about either of the two buildings mentioned above?
I ask because in my great grandmother's diary (1880-1920) she records that her family, the Prestons, lived in both of these places for a period.
She seemed to have lived a very privileged life with servants, etc.
I'd be grateful for any information,
Kind Regards
AJ