Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
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Where be pub?
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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Reginald Barrington wrote:Where be pub?
Near or next to the sports shop, might now be the charity shop, I remember it as narrow, dark and depressing.
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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I thought Lloyds was on the ground floor underneath the Magistrates Court, on the corner of Bridge Street, diagonally opposite the Eagle. As for sports shops, how about Ludlow's in the Market Square - owned by the brother of the owner of Folkestone's Silver Spring lemonade works, IIRC?
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Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
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Jan Higgins wrote:Near or next to the sports shop, might now be the charity shop, I remember it as narrow, dark and depressing.
The salutation?
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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I use to go in Salutation before going to watch them play !
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Button wrote:I thought Lloyds was on the ground floor underneath the Magistrates Court, on the corner of Bridge Street, diagonally opposite the Eagle. As for sports shops, how about Ludlow's in the Market Square - owned by the brother of the owner of Folkestone's Silver Spring lemonade works, IIRC?
In which case what was in the building I thought was a bank? I am fairly sure I remember it as a bank unless it had already closed, this was back in the early 70's.
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Andy B
- Location: dover
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Salutation was opposite and shut in 1983.I think your pub "Jan",was the British queen.Nr to Eddie Crush,it shut in 1975.
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Karlos- Location: Dover
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I remember the Salutation as a Bradford & Bingley. Gone with all my B&B shares
There was an older Salutation towards the town hall.
http://www.dover-kent.com/Salutation.html
The building over from the Eagle was a Nat West.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Thanks Andy, that is one problem solved.
Now for my .bank' one, The joys of old age is remembering parts rather than the whole.
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Andy B- Location: dover
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Lant and Marshall in the High street was the place to go for the latest fashions back in the 70s,80s.The Sample shoe shop in Queens gardens open around the same era was the cheapest shoe shop in town for Doc Martins,Monkey boots etc.For all your decorating needs was Decor discount.A very busy shop in it's time before the big DIY shops came along
Andy B- Location: dover
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KFC brought some excitement to the High street when it first opened in town probably around the early-mid 70s.Still quite a relatively new eating experience in many towns,I can just remember the que on its first day of opening,two pieces of chicken with chips for 33p and they used to give you those lovely lemon hand wipes which you don't seem to get anymore .
Andy B- Location: dover
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The Good luck and Champion Chinese restaurants were possibly the first of their type to open in town, always busy,then came along the Moonflower in the 80s?,think that's still in business.
TheThinWhiteDuke- Registered: 7 Jul 2016
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Andy B wrote:Bent Ernie,i remember that name.
Bridge street was Peter Kent the newsagent,not sure who had Cherry tree but i can remember there was a little hardware shop nearby.
There was definitely a separate sweet shop in Bridge Street. Not the newsagents (which is where I first discovered Marvel and D.C. comics (wish I'd kept my hands on them)). Next door or next door but one to The Admiral Harvey iirc.
Paul Gee- Registered: 30 Oct 2016
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Lloyds definitely where Suite World is now. Still has the safe in there. Nat West was at the end of Bridge Street by the traffic lights.
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Button- Location: Dover
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Paul Gee wrote:Lloyds definitely where Suite World is now. Still has the safe in there. Nat West was at the end of Bridge Street by the traffic lights.
Ah, marble loss again! Wasn't there The Royal Standard pub around there too?
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Button wrote:Ah, marble loss again! Wasn't there The Royal Standard pub around there too?
Was that the one that became the pram or toy shop, the one with arches.
Join the club Button.
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Andy B- Location: dover
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That was Hills toy shop.
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Andy B- Location: dover
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Not a shop but still an important Dover business back in the day was Coppins car breakers in Cherry tree,kept many of us motorists on a budget on the road.Spent many a Saturday or Sunday round there trying to remove parts and fit them to my almost scrap Ford Cortina to keep it running n looking good,was a handy place for many with little money,it shut probably 25 years ago and the site remains empty to this day.
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On to London rd up to Buckland bridge there was Tappe catering supplies,Abbotts diy, Cycle shop,cant remember name and Franks greengrocers,just like from the tv series open all hours,a right character he was.
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Mr Abbott's car had an ecclesiastical number plate! I haven't seen it lately but someone must own it.
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