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QUOTE: "I am sure that it has been moved before in the past - perhaps Ed will know ? It may be 1923 or so when there was a lot of demolition and widening of the roads there?" UNQUOTE
Have just come across the answer to this question. The clocktower has indeed been moved before, in 1892, during the construction of the New Commercial Harbour. Following passage is from the British Association "Handbook to Dover" published in 1899.
"Of the new works the most important is the Eastern Arm or Pier*, the contract for the construction of which was obtained by Sir John Jackson, who began the approach road from the Esplanade in 1892, taking down and re-erecting the Clock Tower which stood in the way. The new work, the memorial stone of which was laid by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales in the summer of 1893, begins a little eastward of the Clock Tower, and is very substantial, the approach being supported by walls of concrete faced with granite."
* This refers to the Eastern Arm of the New Commercial Harbour, latterly named the Prince of Wales pier, and is not to be confused with the Eastern Arm of the later all-embracing Admiralty Harbour which forms the physical limits of the port we know today.
