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22 August 2010
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Someone requested a 'then' photo of Biggin Street, with a bus, sorry there's no bus but here's one of 1966
(Dover Express photo, looking towards the Red Cow public house)
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22 August 2010
16:1766708Lovely picture Kath, and many thanks. More about the time when I was roaming Dover like I do now. What other gems have you and Paul Scotchie got?
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22 August 2010
16:2466710An earlier one of Biggin Street with No.17 tram which has just passed the end of Pencester Rd, going towards St Marys church.
The old Salem Chapel can be seen just behind the bus.
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22 August 2010
16:2866712this one shows the Queens Head pub and the old Salem Chapel before re-development of the site, c.1970
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22 August 2010
16:3866713Always wonder what happens to think like foundation stone (just visible to the bottom right) and plaques when churches and chapels are demolished ?
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22 August 2010
16:4266714Having been to Blackpool so many times, I can almost hear the tram above approaching. The photograph must have been taken from atop another tram. Great stuff.
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22 August 2010
17:0366716The bus is approaching the Market Square Paul. A wartime shot, showing E and D Crush`s tobacconist`s shop in the background at number 23 Market Square.
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22 August 2010
18:0466720Great photos there takes me back to when I was a young man in Dover and in1966 i had been out of the army by then and was working at the DEW and I also got married in Jan 1966 all the town shops were full up you could not even rent a shop then.
23 August 2010
09:5866880I lived on the corner you just cannot see, over what is now White's of Kent. This photo brings back memories of the little shops down Biggin St on the side of the Prince Albert. There was an Eddie Crush, Howell's fish shop and does anyone else remember Mrs Parks who was so small she had to perch on a box to serve in her little greengrocer's shop? These shops are still there, but sadly not so quirky and interesting anymore.
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23 August 2010
10:1666889Kent Boot Company which was at 55 Biggin Street, not sure of date but looks to be c.1910 ?
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24 August 2010
23:0967107Sorry Kath, losing track on these old picture posting`s, and just spotted this one from yesterday. I`ve found that in 1936, it was a tobacconist`s under the name of Miss W.P. Harris. Strangely enough, next door at number 56-7, was Boots the Cash Chemists (Southern Ltd).
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27 August 2010
13:0367411What a great photo of the Prince Albert, Biggin Street, Priory Place and the long-lost Red Cow at the top of this thread.
Dover was so much nicer without that damned pedestrian precinct.
In fact, I'll rephrase that...Dover was just so much nicer. Full-stop.
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27 August 2010
15:5467420Here is another Biggin St picture, from postcard with postmark dated 1911.
Shows "the bear" on the frontage above McLeods cycle shop.
There appears to be a sort of 'penny farthing' style pram (right, bottom corner of picture).
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27 August 2010
17:4767442Ah thanks Kath - McLeods - my version of this is hand tinted so cannot make out the name
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27 August 2010
17:5267443Great photos Kath, thank you for sharing
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27 August 2010
18:0367446I like this from a few doors down at Timothy Whites - McDonalds Teeth
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27 August 2010
20:4667493Paul - any idea of date for the 'teeth' picture?
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27 August 2010
21:3167509It is dated 1917
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27 August 2010
22:2767526just at the time of the final slaughtering of the nations youth.
great pictures though.
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