Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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28 August 2010
21:0867674Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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28 August 2010
21:0967675Sorry not a very good copy !
Been nice knowing you :)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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28 August 2010
21:3067679nevertheless good stuff paul, the family still live locally and own properties.
i should know, they closed down my workplace.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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28 August 2010
21:5267682a bit more information about Lukeys, wine merchants below. John appears to have married twice.
Edward LUKEY Esq. Deputy Mayor, Dover. (1889 Dover Year Book)
Mr John LUKEY, Bermondsey, married 25 Feb at St James's Dover to Sarah THISELTON (dau of Mr T. THISELTON formerly of Dolphin Inn, Faversham) (Dover Telegraph 4.3.1837 p.8 col.4)
John LUKEY & SONS, importers and bonders of wines and spirits; 4 Bench Street, Dover, and at 3 Rendezvous Street, Folkestone (PO Directory 1878)
John LUKEY & SONS, Wine/Spirit merchants, 4 Bench St, Dover (advert page 1 col.2 Dover Chronicle Jan 5 1884)
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Edward LUKEY 4 Bench Street, Dover
John LUKEY 97 Maison Dieu Rd, Dover
(Private residents list, PO Directory 1878)
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1881 Census:
John LUKEY Head M Male 72 Morwenstow, Cornwall, England Wine Merchant
Mary F. LUKEY Wife M Female 42 Dover, Kent, England
Sarah A. LUKEY Daur U Female 38 Sydenham, Kent, England
Elizabeth STEEL Serv U Female 22 Dover, Kent, England Gen Dom Serv
Source Information:
Dwelling 97 Maison Dieu Rd
Census Place Charlton, Kent, England
Family History Library Film 1341237
Public Records Office Reference RG11
Piece / Folio 1000 / 123
Page Number 18
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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28 August 2010
22:1467683thanks for info kath, 4 bench street was my place of employment until the modern day lukey bolted the door.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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28 August 2010
22:1767684I started this thread on 6 February this year, and it ran to 1 April with 22 replies. I gave it another airing on 24 August and it`s got nearly 22 more replies in an even shorter time. We`ve also got a few more great contributing members on this thread since then, who have added much more interesting information. I have observed this sort of happening on the forum before when I`ve dug into the archive`s and got some other member`s thread`s going again. What I`m saying here is, if you don`t already do so, have a look back at some threads from the past, some of which are more interesting than some of the new one`s placed on here at times, (including mine I might add). Some may just deserve a fresh airing for a second time around, especially as there are alot more member`s on here now.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Jan Higgins
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28 August 2010
22:2167686What all 90 pages of them.
Life at my age is too short.
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Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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28 August 2010
22:2467687 Anyway, back to this thread, and at last I`ve found this photograph, one of just three I took of Dover in 21 years. It`s dated 6th January 1992, and the reason I took it was that I saw all that green fencing across the road disappearing, and that the rest would surely follow. I`m sure you`ll work out the location here, but if not, there`s a clue in the middle background.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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28 August 2010
22:3067688Jan, do one a night in Sept/Oct/Nov, then have December off.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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28 August 2010
22:3667691Howard,
From post #45 I guess we must have met many times in the past!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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28 August 2010
22:4167692could be ray, were you the chap that came in with your face covered and left with a 6 pack of stella forgetting to pay for same?
i remember saying the words " who was that masked man and how can we thank him".
Alec Sheldon
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28 August 2010
22:4667694I think that our own Sue worked there many years ago.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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28 August 2010
23:0067697susan has always been a working girl, to her credit i must add.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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28 August 2010
23:0267699Howard,
Me drink Stella, Noooooo! I remember you had some very good Vouvray and I always looked out for changes on your window display when passing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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28 August 2010
23:0867701i remember the last one vividly, we are f***ed now gone for ever, best prose from me.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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28 August 2010
23:0867702Slightly off topic but geographically near and alcohol involved, I've just come back from a private celebration party at the Watersports Centre on the seafront, my first visit there. A great venue, super efficient staff and a brilliant view over the harbour from the balcony.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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29 August 2010
10:1067746Traction engine in Snargate Street with boiler for Scotts Dye Works, in early 1900s
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Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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29 August 2010
15:3967767Another winning picture there Kath, and that machine in both size and power could certainly give those juggernaut`s a run for their money, (though I`m not sure of it`s tractive effort). I wonder where that boiler was built, and whether it came all the way down here by road, or by ship?
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Keith Sansum1
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29 August 2010
16:2467776snargatewas so nice
but got worse over the years
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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30 August 2010
06:4467901Seems difficult to believe there were houses/buildings on oth sides of the road too.
Is the fact that there's now only one side of buildings, down to the Luftwaffe, or official vandalism from various local authorities ?
Roger
