Guest 736- Registered: 5 Jan 2012
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Any news on the Eagle pub??? Walked passed it today on the way to work and its all boarded up. Is it closed or has someone or something gone through the windows!!
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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It's not one of my regular haunts but I believe it has now closed. I know there was a leaving party in there last night, so that's that...for now.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
sorry to hear that, a very large pub to pay rent, business rate, heating and lighting on.
difficult to make a profit with the overheads.
Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,696
Even harder if you are an obnoxious individual as the outgoing landlord was
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
Don't beat about the bush Ross, tell us what you really think of him.
Shame though that another pub has closed, that's got to be at least 3 in Dover that I know of.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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more than that roger.
off the top of my head the orange tree, engineer, the one in new street, the hare and hounds, the westbury, the one that is now the arlington restaurant, that one in snargate street near the grand shaft and one in tower hamlets that is now a convenience store.
just remembered the alma and the golden lion .
Guest 736- Registered: 5 Jan 2012
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Sorry there Ross but didn't know him. Don't think I ever drunk in there. Once I think if I was honest. Just a shame that such a beautiful looking building going to waste.
The thing is that you can't drag people in without having something to go there for. If the atmosphere isn't there to start with you aren't going to want to go there anyway and that's without the attitude of owners, etc. You do have to put the effort in to get something back.
Just think that its a shame
Guest 736- Registered: 5 Jan 2012
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Was that the King Eddie?? Is the dew Drop still up Tower Hamlets???
Guest 729- Registered: 27 Oct 2011
- Posts: 44
The Landlord that last had it totally ruined it. Horrible man who really did kill of what was before that a decent pub. I stopped using it as did a lot of people because of him.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Thanks Howard - I was thinking of recent closures: the Kingfisher, Falstaff and now the Eagle. Those others you mentioned have been closed for quite a while.
Roger
the Kingfisher along London road as well
Guest 729- Registered: 27 Oct 2011
- Posts: 44
Dew Drop Inn is still going strong.
Guest 736- Registered: 5 Jan 2012
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The Britannia. That was a shock a little while back just walked past and !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gone!
Guest 730- Registered: 5 Nov 2011
- Posts: 221
They ruined the Eagle when they turned it into an "Irish" pub, what a daft idea that was. It's never been the same since, not that I used it much. Last time I went there the beer tasted of vinegar.
I don't do pubs much, but the building is lovely. What a shame.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,865
eagle has changed hands a lot
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Alec Sheldon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 18 Aug 2008
- Posts: 1,036
I have used the Eagle on and off over the years, the last time being when Mick Murphy was the landlord. Mick was a member of the old site and was against the clock that the council were trying to foist off on to the Eagle building. Anyone remember that.?.
I believe the last landlord hated Northerners so a good job that I kept out.
He is beginning to sound a real prince.........
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
i remember that alec, the clock issue caused a bit of a stir at the time.
Guest 736- Registered: 5 Jan 2012
- Posts: 118
Can you explain???
