Guest 702- Registered: 9 Jul 2010
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30 October 2010
15:1177377Got these at an Antiques Fair. Lots more to follow.
Castle Street
Car Ferry 'Compeigne'
Dover Stage Hotel
Prince Leopold
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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30 October 2010
15:2277379Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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30 October 2010
15:2977381Nice picture`s there Ken, especially the Castle street one which I haven`t seen before. The castle there must have been the reason for such a number of photograph`s being taken down there over the years.
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Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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30 October 2010
16:1177389I love old postcards
These are great.
Terry Nunn
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30 October 2010
16:4877409"B.R." car ferry Compiegne??
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Guest 702- Registered: 9 Jul 2010
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30 October 2010
20:4277513Colin. The Castle Street one is unused so has no postmark. The lorry looks very WW1 so estimate that the photo was taken in the 1920's going by the woman in the foreground.
Heres the next batch.
This is postmarked 1958, but as there are quite a lot of 1940's cars I think an earlier date in the 50's is likely.
Dover Stage postmarked 1962 which goes with the cars. There is what looks like a 1930's/40's Jaguar saloon. Note the East Kent bus garage.
Marine Parade postmarked 1965. The cars are 1940's so think this is an early 1950's image.
The postmark is smudged but is either 1954 or 1964. The cars and people look like added images (a bit like the images you get when developers do an artists impression of a building).
More tomorrow.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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30 October 2010
20:4577514brilliant stuff ken, they do indeed look like artists impressions.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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30 October 2010
20:4777519Great pictures Ken, and nice to see a few more 50s and 60s picture`s. That first one of the Eastern docks has the best view I`ve ever seen of the railway lines up there. That lower one is more likely 1964 as the railway line`s gone, though post cards are normally a few years behind, but then again, the railway track is still missing.
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Guest 702- Registered: 9 Jul 2010
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30 October 2010
20:5677527Colin. You have a point, the railway was gone by the early 60's. Just chance that two 1940's cars were in view.
I've got another one that shows the rail lines which I'll scan in the next batch.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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30 October 2010
21:0877538Sorry Ken, I was referring to the bottom one mate, the middle one shows the track.
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Guest 702- Registered: 9 Jul 2010
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30 October 2010
22:3577575Colin
Looking at my larger sized scans the black & white on does show the rails, while the colour one seems to be an artistic adaptation of the black & white one (or one very similar) and the rail lines have been turned into a pavement. The line of the outer rail on one exactly matches the line of the pavement on the other. (The red car looks to have had a nasty accident when you look closely at the enlargement).
As far as I can remember there was never a pavement on that side of the road.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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30 October 2010
22:4077578The terminal one is interesting - could almost be a classic car show !!
Mine is dated 1960 so doesn't help, but mid 50s sounds right
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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30 October 2010
22:4777581Re the Marine Parade, it looks like the ruins of Burlington Hotel are still there so it would be 1949 or before
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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30 October 2010
22:5077585What get's me is how odd the seafront looked when it was cleared before the 'Award Winning' Gateway Flats arrived....
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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30 October 2010
23:0077596... and what a "Wish you were here" postcard this one would have made
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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30 October 2010
23:2777613This has got me looking at some of my oldest images and wondering what sort of World the people live, who they were and where they ended up.... This is from an old albumen photo and could be 1880 or even older than that.....
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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30 October 2010
23:4277617And most of them have been in my lifetime ,thank you for taking me back to some great times in my young life.
Is that me siting on the top rail.
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30 October 2010
23:4577619no your pushing the barrow ion first pcture lol
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23:5777622Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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08:4077628And you on sea front singing cliff richard songs lol
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