Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Was speaking to a colleague last night who said his Mother worked in the Parker pen factory in the Eastern Docks when she left school, he was trying to work out exactly where it was situated, I said I would put it on here and no doubt someone will come up with the definitive answer, he believed it was near the entrance of the Port.
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Guest 706- Registered: 25 Oct 2010
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Just past the entrance and to the left!
Everyone knew someone who worked there and lots of children had pens with their names in gold,I did!
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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How far in in relation to the Port now Penny? beyond the Travel Centre or near where the Police Station is?
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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There is a photograph here...
http://www.du.kent-history.co.uk/1/tales/dov2.jpg
It is said that the pen factory is in the picture, still a bit of a guessing game though.
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Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Thanks Tom, great photo.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Great Factory should never had gone we did at the time try to stop it,But powers at that time just like today will not take any notice of what the public say.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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'The Powers' don't have a say in where a private business operates !!
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Do not agree with the above post.I was around at that time and know what went on.I have nomore to say about it,all in the pass,so end of story.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Is it the main building in the picture with the windows?
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Mr Martin that is not the photo of it,they were right at the front of the Docks just as you go in now by road,the factory was a across what is now the roads leading in and out of the docks and the road,going into the docks was on the side of it,I was working on the other side in a very small steel works.
SWWood- Location: Dover
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It's the building in the bottom right of this photo.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Yes it is the white one,and on the left is the small factory I worked in as a boy before going into the army
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
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I think the answer is that they were located on the cliffside of the docks nearer to the current entrance. I also believe Burgess Engineering were near to them. The Shell petrol tanks were at the far end .I'll stand corrected by others who had more intimate knowledge.
Watty .
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Yes that is who I worked for you see the small factory on the left.He would come to work each day on a bike.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Detail from an Ordnance Survey map c 1938, minor revisions '57 showing the building above the Castle Jetty label (hope Alexander doesn't get too excited seeing all those railway tracks
). Amazing to think how much has now been infilled.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I have already said you can see it in the photo above,
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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great photo from sw there.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Yes Vic, I know. Just providing a map from the same era so folks can orientate themselves with the present day.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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In that photo to the right of the castle you can still see the houses for the married troops,I would take news papers now there as aboy in the 1950s
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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what would be fox hill known as today?
