Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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How many people in Dover ever look up above the shops in the streets, and actually look at the building work above. How many would actually recognise a building in Dover, viewed from the top part only, even after passing it for 50 years or more? Well, I have looked closely since I`ve been on the forum, and noticed today that the bingo hall building is 100 years old next year. I also noticed how attractive a building looks when looked after properly.
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Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Further down, a nice little balcony, but all in need of just a little brightning up.
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Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Were they a Cinema (name unknown) and The Metropole Hotel in ages gone by?
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The Bingo hall was a cinema first and I worked there when it was a cinema and also worked there part-time when it became a Bingo hall, i was one of the callers and also run the prize bingo up stairs where I had my own office.
Brian Dixon
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the ezoldo or some thing simler other wise known as the fle pit.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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vic
i consider you the shy/retiring type.
definitely not the bingo caller type.
Guest 670- Registered: 23 Apr 2008
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I think you will find that the old Essoldo Cinema is now occupied by Wetherspoons.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Always get mixed up there Dave1 between the Essoldo and the Gaumont, which was the first to become a bingo hall I believe. While searching the internet, I came across another shot of the ABC cinema in Castle street.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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It was the Gaumont before that the Kings hall and the first Bingo hall after was the Invictor and that is who I worked for,and when they sold out my last job for them was to go up on the roof and burn all the books.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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book burning vic?
did you work for mr hitler?
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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If you log into my old life story it will tell you more.I had some great fun in working there..But they told me that the books had to be burn before they handed over to the new boss,s.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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As DBS Manager I had photographed all the upstairs of the buildings from Ladywell down to Townwall Street that needed working doing on them - repainting, new windows etc.
The worst two - number 10 King Street and the Best Kebab building in Cannon Street (the side wall and the floors above the shop) I had written to DDC Planning Department to ask them to invoke section 215 of the Town aned County planning act 1990, to force the Landlord to do it up. Needless to say..........................
The Gala Bingo building was in a pretty run-down state before it was refurbished and would have been on my list of people/businesses to contact, but the scaffolding went up and work started and they have made a lovely job of it.
I had written to the owner of the Best Kebab building asking them to do it up, but was sacked before that could be followed up; I was sacked before I could actually visit the rest of the owners of the buildings in Cannon Street and Biggin Street, so that won't be followed up either.
There's a lovely building at the bottom end of Biggin Street with a bear above the ground floor; that needs a little attention too and it would look really lovely.
All the properties in Castle Street that needed attention, I took the details and photos to David H as he is the Chairman of the Castle Street Society; I don't know if anything was done about them - any news/update David ?
Roger
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