Old Postcards
- 31 October 2010 10:1977651
Promenade
Beach & Promenade. Note car park in Granville Gardens with mostly 40's cars and at least one from the 50's.
Not a postcard this one, maybe a photograph.
The Sea Front & Castle. Car looks like an Armstrong-Siddeley from 1950's.www.kenrbaker.co.uk - Photo Gallery - 31 October 2010 10:2477652Final batch.
Chantilly
Dover from Western Heights. Very old vehicle at lower right.
Wellington Docks & Shaft Barracks.
Granville Gardens, late 50's/early 60's?www.kenrbaker.co.uk - Photo Gallery - 31 October 2010 10:2777653I had a Armstrong-Siddeley in 1962 but I do not think that is one above ,that car is alot bigger then the one I had and the front grill is not right ,but I could be wrong.Looking at that grill again now you could be right but it is the size of the car to just does not look right.
- 1 November 2010 11:1177795Stunning pictures there again lads...we are providing such a historical document here. Ken I must tell you that I had the pleasure of staying in the Dover Stage many years ago. I have mentioned this before of course. I was on a flying visit from London and booked into it from up there because it said 'seafront views'. Each room was very small as I remember and each room had a balcony. Several years later I came down from London again only to find to my surprise that the blasted thing had gone !!
A void of emptiness where once it stood so..ermm..proudly. It was a relatively new building so i couldnt understand why. I always associate the place with bus drivers. Every time we went into the lobby there were bus drivers. Dont ask me why!!?
But great to see postcards of it.email: dover7@msn.com - 1 November 2010 18:4677882PaulB - Took these 10th November 1988
www.kenrbaker.co.uk - Photo Gallery - 1 November 2010 19:0877893interesting photos ken, what is actually on the site now?
- 1 November 2010 20:0877906Camden Crescent car park.www.kenrbaker.co.uk - Photo Gallery
- 3 November 2010 18:1578331Ken Baker's third photograph intrigues me, what is the slope on the right, is it another napoleonic exit or coal slag?
- 3 November 2010 20:0978339Pre-WW2 so is all napoleonic spoil from the excavations of the tunnels
Been nice knowing you :) - 3 November 2010 23:3178383A relative reckons that slope has a flight of steps.www.kenrbaker.co.uk - Photo Gallery
- 4 November 2010 07:5178402Thanks again for the pictures there Ken. Amazing to see the Dover Stage being demolished, the room I stayed in is already gone in those shots, but unusual isnt it to demolish something in Dover especiially when we dont have a plan for anything else in its place. Its now a carpark as was said but they dont generally demolish things to create carparks.
email: dover7@msn.com - 4 November 2010 09:2978411Ken - there is a "railway line" that runs up the slope up to the DUMPY level
Been nice knowing you :) - 4 November 2010 13:5578433I seem to remember the Dover Stage being demolished deliberately to enable constructing a carpark before the White Cliffs Experience opened. The idea was that customers would have to walk from there, and from the carpark at Maison Dieu, and would have to pass through the town on the way and spend some dosh. When I worked at the WCE for a few months just before it closed, the others told me that one of the reasons they attributed for its failure was the lack of on-site carparking for customers.
The Dover Stage had the merit of looking quite modern, if a bit cheap and tacky. I only went in there once, to sample the bar which was not particularly inspiring. Liked the name though, redolent of the old stagecoach service to London.
Dover to London stagecoach by Henry Alken 1785-1851 - 5 November 2010 07:3578542A stagecoach was used at the opening of the Dover Stage. This was shown in one of the old Dover films (1957?) by, I think, Ray Warner.www.kenrbaker.co.uk - Photo Gallery
- 5 November 2010 12:2878579Same coach I think, but slightly different picture:
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