Shop history

• Guest 706

  • Registered: 25 Oct 2010
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  14 January 2011     18:4188949
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  Can any of you knowledgeable folk tell what the shop,Hooked on Books, used to be over the years?
  Many thanks
• Guest 660

  • Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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  14 January 2011     20:4588971
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  Not sure Penny,it is a long deep shop,I do remember Aladdin Cave being there that was a great shop.
  If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  14 January 2011     21:0188976
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  i can only remember "hooked on books" there, maybe super sleuth "scotchie" or "kath" will have the history at their fingertips?
• Guest 651

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  14 January 2011     21:0588977
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  15 High Street:
  
  1934 - 15a William Castle Saml motor engineer
  1939 - 15a F Castle/Miss C Savage ladies hairdresser
  1956 - Connaught Cafe - Mrs A Barten
  1959 - 15 Connaught Cafe Ashbee/15a Frank Castle Antique Dealer
  1969 - Toppa Restaurant & Coffee Lounge
  Been nice knowing you :)
• Guest 651

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  14 January 2011     21:0688978
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  Kath might have an old photo but everything i have looks towards Maison Dieu rather than away from it !
  Been nice knowing you :)
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  14 January 2011     21:1088981
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  what did i say!!
• Guest 700

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  15 January 2011     10:5089036
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  The shop at end of this block is not clear but before it was a bookshop recently it was also a cafe, you can see the 'recent' care on google earth.
  This photo was taken 1958 on the occasion of the Queen's visit.
  
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• Guest 706

  • Registered: 25 Oct 2010
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  15 January 2011     11:3689039
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  Thank you,Kath and Paul!
  I don't think that I've seen that photo before. It's great!
• Guest 641

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  15 January 2011     16:4189089
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  Fantastic photo Kath, wonderful to see a Highland regiment in Dover, especially so many, you would be hard pressed to do the same for the queen in this day and age (probably a handful of sea cadets is all that we could manage, cuts don't you know)
• Guest 673

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  15 January 2011     18:1189105
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  Hooked on Books is a super bookshop, long may it continue. Chris recalls it when it was Toppa's as mentioned above, which she recollects as being Topaz. It was not very upmarket. The criminal courts were across the road in the Town Hall and all the local villains used to collect in the coffee bar when they were appearing there. There was a juke box up the back.
  
  Re #2: Chris worked at Aladdin's Cave many years ago and says it is now the sunbed tanning establishment. Before becoming Aladdin's Cave it used to make and sell rock and was called Andy Amos.