1950s Dover - do you recognise anyone ?
- 17 August 2010 22:0365969A long shot, but some of the people are fairly young so probably still around today. I have acquired some old photos from the Gaumont Cinema with numerous films and street views incluing:
Man of the Moment 1955 - Norman Wisdom
Seven Days to Noon -1950
Bring Your Smile Along - 1955 - Frankie Laine
Doctor at Sea - 1955 - Dirk Bogarde
All Quiet on the Western Front
Gentlemen Marry Brunettes - 1955 -Jane Russell
Some of them are people dressed up, other of advertising bikes, shop window adverts!! It will take me time to get through all the negative....
Here is the image anyway.....
Been nice knowing you :) - 17 August 2010 22:2465976good picture of victor in the background, is that our susan holding a placard?
- 17 August 2010 22:4665977Proper big size image here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/doverpast/4902072877/sizes/o/in/photostream/Been nice knowing you :) - 18 August 2010 09:2765999Did this mean Frankie Laine (whoever he be!) came to Dover or are these just the 1950s equivalents of the Subway sandwich adverts ?Been nice knowing you :)
- 18 August 2010 09:3166000Or who recognises this view with the pub on the right ?
Been nice knowing you :) - 18 August 2010 09:4366002Great picture`s there Paul thank you. I`m sure the pub is The Prince Albert in Biggin Street. All those lovely looking shop`s in the picture were sadly demolished in the 60s cull, to be replaced by the austere looking one`s of today.Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
- 18 August 2010 09:5066004Ah yes of course, the Prince Albert, thanks Colin !!
Another one is the Salutation which was just down from Rooks - a woman with a pram with "Norman Wisdom" in it
Been nice knowing you :) - 18 August 2010 19:3466061Paul - the first picture (with Frankie Laine placards) is next to Hattons shop, was that the Plaza?
Bob will have a look at his cinema books.---------------------------------------------------
Lincolnshire Born and Bred - 18 August 2010 19:3766064Bob says there is a picture of the cinema next to Hattons, which was the Kings Hall, which must have been re-named the Gaumont, and the Plaza was near the Market Square in Cannon Street.---------------------------------------------------
Lincolnshire Born and Bred - 18 August 2010 19:4166071Yes that is right Kings Hall/Odeon/Gaumont/now Gala Bingo
The Plaza became the Essoldo which is behind the MetropoleBeen nice knowing you :) - 18 August 2010 19:4266073I did work at the Gaumount in 1957 and many years later as a bingo caller,part-time. I run the prize aswell upstairs.6p ago.
- 18 August 2010 19:4466079That seems quite cheap Vic, did you get many takers?
- 18 August 2010 19:4966088Also worked at Hattons as their part-time driver afternoons only.
Yes Sid it was, done by puting a 6p in the machine and I would call out the numbers I had great fun there and can not tell you what I got up to,but will say this when they sold out I had to go on the roof and burn all the books.
It is all in the Vic Matcham life story,which I can not put on the forum anymore. - 20 August 2010 12:0066308I am also sure that it is the Prince Albert in Biggin Street, having lived very near for years. The little shops on the left of the picture were very quaint, and it is a great pity that they could not have been updated and continued to operate. After all many shops in Canterbury are very old but operate well in the modern day. The block that replaced them is so ugly. I remember that there was the coal office, and a little baker's where the bread was superb. The rebuilt Salutation was a bit like a public toilet inside and did not last for many years.
- 20 August 2010 23:1066411I took this picture 6 June 1988, one of only three photograph`s out of a few thousand I took between 1987 and 2007 showing a Dover scene. As you can see, the appalling architectural difference between the old shop`s shown in Paul`s print up top, and the new 1960s shop`s above.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered. - 21 August 2010 12:1366487Paul
I hope to have some names for you re the original picture.
Mother-in Law (83yr old Dovorian) in town every day and this morning talking with some of her friends and putting a name or two.
Also Pamela Allen had a hairdressers for many years in Castle Street. I thought she may know some as the girls all have some nice hair doos and could have been clients of hers in the 50's. and awaiting her imput.
Re the demolished buildings in Biggin Street. What a crime to loose such wonderful buildings. Just the type of shops the tourists would like. - 21 August 2010 18:0866539Thanks Pat - it should also appear in the Dover Mercury this week so fingers crossed !Been nice knowing you :)
- 21 August 2010 22:0766585Spookily today I picked up a book at Archcliffe Fort and it was owned by A Whittamore and inside a letter from Dick Whittamore.......
The photos above I got last week were owned by A Whittamore, assistant manager of the Gaumont !!Been nice knowing you :) - 22 August 2010 15:3366686This one has stumped me so far.....
Been nice knowing you :) - 22 August 2010 15:4066690That is in the market by castle st and it is not me.
