Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,864
My husband was a great homemade wine maker, Frank kept him supplied with near to end fruit in exchange for the occasional bottle.
In that same area before the bridge, there was a sweet shop, a wet fish shop (next to the Bull) that later became a branch of Coral the bookmakers.
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Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,813
He kept quite a bit of near the end fruit n veg,if wasnt too limp he would sell it.Always remember some of the tins in the shop,labels were so faded you could barely read them.He was a nice old boy but just like Arkwright from Open all hours,and he certainly was open all hours.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Put it this way anything had to be eaten on the same day unless Mrs Frank or their daughter served you.
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Andy B- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
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A few years before he shut shop he called me round there to show me an old Lambretta scooter which was upstairs which he had brought for his daughter brand new from Dover motorcycles in the 60s.He said she had only ridden it once or twice n didnt get on with it.He was asking about £200 for it.I wasnt really interested in them so my mate brought it.I always wished i had as they are worth fortunes now.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,864
This subject seems to have slowed down,
. What about the 'forge' at the bottom of Bunkers Hill opposite the Bull.
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Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,253
Don't remember that one, The Forge or a forge?
I do remember the computer shop down from the Bull either where the chippy is or where they have converted them back to housing.
My brothers first Saturday job, he saved his wages for a ZX81 computer and the owner taught him latin when it was quiet.
Arte et Marte
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,528
I was thinking about what used to be where the Sainsbury was and Charlton Centre is now.
I know there a pet shop as I remember my parents buying a kitten when I was young.
Having googled found this
https://www.facebook.com/groups/DoverHistoryPages/posts/2646514708703902/Andy B- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
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Jan Higgins wrote:This subject seems to have slowed down,
. What about the 'forge' at the bottom of Bunkers Hill opposite the Bull.
Yes i do remember the Forge,the owner was Jimmy Link.I think since it was turned into a house its still called The Forge.
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Andy B- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,813
Pet shop where Charlton centre now stands i think was Pets arcade,they had quite a range of tropical fish.I can remember going there with my dad where he used to buy Angel fish,Neons,etc.It later moved down the road nr Baileys opticians where it was later taken over by the owners son.Unfortunatly it shut a couple of years ago.
Andy B- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,813
Anyone remember the takeaway Spud u like in Cannon st,was just down the road from Alan Hughes menswear.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,528
Andy B wrote:Anyone remember the takeaway Spud u like in Cannon st,was just down the road from Alan Hughes menswear.
Was that the same unit as the Wimpy?
Andy B- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,813
I,m not sure,could be were the betting shop is now,remember when it first opened,big bright orange lettering i think,it was very eyecatching,there was branches opened in many towns,the spuds were real nice.Would have been early part of the 80s.
TheThinWhiteDuke- Registered: 7 Jul 2016
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Karlos wrote:Was that the same unit as the Wimpy?
I do miss the Wimpy.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
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Andy B- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,813
I didnt know Wimpy were still in business,last time i went in one was in London almost 40years ago.Just never seen them around anywhere,been to plenty of the other ones and still do.
Paul Gee- Registered: 30 Oct 2016
- Posts: 23
What about the maze that was Turnpenny’s. You could easily get lost in there. I think there used to be a pub on the end before the junction at the bottom of Tower Hamlets was expanded.
Andy B- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,813
I can remember Turnpennys,think they was a removal company? If its where i think they were they was on same side as Sainsburys later to become the Charlton centre.The pub i,m thinking of was The friend in need which would have been down the side road of the High st surgery,i could be wrong.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,864
I liked the Friend In Need we often stopped for a quick one on the way home from shopping.
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Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,316
Something for Paul Gee. Sometime ago John Turnpenny loaned me some old photographs of his shops. I enhanced them, framed them and handed them back. Here are a couple.
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,316
Obviously the wrong one!!
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