Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,253
Remember the 'Friend in Need' vague on what else was around it.
Certainly was a yard of some sort:
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Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,316
Yes, it was Sid Castle's scrapyard. It was a family affair although apart from Sid I can only remember Len Castle.
Terry
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,051
Possibly having a senior moment here, but did Len Castle end up working for Customs?
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Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,316
It's possible, I do remember that he was involved in a serious road accident subsequent to the scrapyard closing.
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,051
Sounds like the same chap - one of the few normal inhabitants of Maritime House back then (1975).
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Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,813
I can only remember it as SJG,s scrapyard,i,m sure thats what it was called,would have been back in the late 70s or very early 80 before it shut for good.I think after that the owner moved to a yard at the top of Barwick rd down the slope next to Nicholls cement factory which was open for about 10years.I can also remember at the back of the Friend in need was a big shed with a couple of dusty old hurses in there and possibly an old limo which as kids we used to play in,upstairs was full of junk and i can remember attempting to go down the stairs in an old wheelchair i had found which didnt end very well.My friends couldnt understand why i had even attempted it and me neither after the cuts,grazes n bruises i got.
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Matey
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 11 Oct 2021
- Posts: 178
I remember as a kid, if you went out the back of the pub it backed onto the Indian restaurant and I recall seeing frozen chickens in their yard thawing out in the sun laid on a sheet of rusty tin. Yuk!!!!
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,529
The Red Lion's had a coat of paint. It's very red now.
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TheThinWhiteDuke- Registered: 7 Jul 2016
- Posts: 355
Do you think they deliberately chose that shade to match the wheelie bins outside?
The Gov- Registered: 24 May 2020
- Posts: 151
I hear the Dew Drop has shut shop ?
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,529
The Gov wrote:I hear the Dew Drop has shut shop ?
Not heard anything.
Possibly the one Dover pub, that was open, I've never been in.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,911
Very few in there when I popped in once
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,058
'Make that a double, Landlord'.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,911
Remember when ex Dover football manager Alf Bentley was the landlord of red lion ?
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,529
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,911
Who recalls the pub that was opposite (nearly ) the Eagle
Didnt appear to get many in it
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
The fountain
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,316
Really Sue, you're a bit out there. It was the Falcon, top of Bridge Street!
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,911
Come on Terry
When you are at Eagle pub , cross over and about 400 yards up London road a pub named ?
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,865
http://www.dover-kent.com/Falcon-Hotel.html
Maybe Terry has the better memory although Keith did say nearly opposite rather than up the road.
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