Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Re Smye Rumsby, that is just the small office adjacent to the main building (which was the old Ferry Cafe)
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24 August 2010
07:5066992 One eyesore is being dealt with along Snargate Street, the old Hover hotel. Looks like a bit of building work going on. Any info?
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24 August 2010
08:0466994There was a plannng permission for (part) demolition and new flats to be built
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27 August 2010
21:0967498Thanks for bumping this up Colin, I wasn't following the forum when the thread was started.
My Gran ran a cafe cum boarding house in Snargate St in the late 30s, almost next door to Sharp and Enright. Most of the performers at The Hippodrome theatre stopped with her, many of them becoming household names on TV later, and she had some interesting stories to tell and strong opinions about many of them.
My mother was one of the evacuees to Wales during the war, and had some horrific memories of seeing the Dunkirk evacuees return before she left. After returning she got married and lived there with Dad and I was born above the shop in 48. Somewhere I've got some photos that I'll try to find and post, it was evidently a really vibrant area at that time.
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27 August 2010
21:1967504Ray, was your gran`s name Sovico by any chance mate?
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27 August 2010
21:2767506Colin, not that I know of but she did have a few aliases for various enterprises! The family name was Parsons. Grandad worked on the docks throughout the war, and used to put a net over the side of the piers whenever he could. Stocks of everything built up with no fishing for 6 years, and I remember Gran saying she can't believe she once said to him "Not bloody lobster again"
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27 August 2010
21:2967507Good to see the Masonic hall abit less lairy now !!
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27 August 2010
21:4667511Ray, there was a Mrs S.H. Parsons, dining rooms at 35 Snargate street, in the 1937-38 period. The Royal Hippodrome was next door at number 34. The telephone number was 999!!!!!!!! ......... Paul, I got a couple of nice shots of the newly painted Masonic hall the same time as the above, but I deleted them due to the number of pics I`d already taken that day.Yes, it looks an attractive building in it`s new coat of paint.
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27 August 2010
22:5167539Colin, that's intriguing, Grandad was Stanley. I'd always assumed the pre and post war businesses were one and the same. Unfortunately there are no living family members from that time to ask.
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27 August 2010
23:0167544The `S` then in Mrs S.H. may stand for Stanley then Ray? I do know a Stanley Parsons up at Hither Green, though he`s about 70 now I think.
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28 August 2010
07:5167558Colin.Mr Sevico was my violin teacher in the 1950s when I was at school.he played in the Hippodrome then after that he took up teaching he once told me "you keep playing son and you will go far with your violin,"Well we cannot always be right," As you say they lived above the cafe.I think they were Polish or a Jewish family, he was very good but they did move up to Mannor Rd Maxton till he died.
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28 August 2010
08:0467565Thanks for that Vic. A Mr Sovico, apparently had a restaurant at number 30 Snargate street before the war.
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28 August 2010
08:2767575Mr Sovico was great on the violin and a very nice person to know,he would come to our house for tea and them take me of about an 1hour on the violin,my old dad paid out alot of money on me and my music but I was never that good to turn pro.
28 August 2010
08:2967577Can anyone tell me what a Snar is please?
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28 August 2010
08:3067578Again it is nice part of the town, and could be so much better
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28 August 2010
08:4467587Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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28 August 2010
08:4767591Thank you for that Ken I can still see it as it was in the 1940s and 50s it would be great to see it still like that.
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28 August 2010
08:4767592Thank you for that Ken I can still see it as it was in the 1940s and 50s it would be great to see it still like that.
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28 August 2010
09:2967603There are some interesting 'recollections of Snargate Street' 1839-40', with quaint descriptions of the place and people on the Dover Society website, which see:
http://doversociety.homestead.com/SnargateStreet.html---------------------------------------------------
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28 August 2010
20:4267669interesting stuff there, i was also told that there were grapevines in snargate street at one time owned by the lukey family who used to produce their own wine and port.
they had a shop in bench street that later was taken over by unwins who then folded themselves.
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