Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Another rummage through the loft today produced this, never published before photograph of the long filled in fountain down the sea front. A car park now occupies where that building stands. Possibly, it could have been my uncle down on holiday who took the picture, and it is definate mid 60s by the cars.
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Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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Not quite Colin. The fountain was filled in and now forms part of Granville Gardens; the bridge is still there, clearly recognisable from the picture.
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Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Sorry Andy, I know the fountain and bridge are still there, it`s the building`s in the background that I said were gone, although I`m now unsure if they`re not the one`s the other side of Townwall Street today. The distance is decieving me.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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thanks for the photo colin , jogged my memory.
why is our main attraction(the fountain in market square) still not open?
all or visitors stand in front of it for a camera shot, plus it is a pleasure for the rest of us.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The background is the Dover Stage Hotel, built late 1950s and demolished in the 1988:
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Was the Dover Stage imported from Tracy Island perchance?
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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yes it was the Island was put there so you could see it from the hotel.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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I remember the sea front fountain, going to show my age a bit now, the fountain had coloured lights all very effective.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Here's another old one I did a few years ago !
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Hey Scotchie that reminds me, do you remember the old DoverWeb Time Machine (you even contributed a few photos for it)? It still exists - I published it about a year or so ago because some school kids wanted to see it in connection with a project I was involved with and it's still online.
Anyone wanting to take a look at this now old but still fascinating gadget can find it here:
http://www.absolutegraphix.co.uk/timetravel
Enjoy!
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Ah yes I remember the TimeMachine..great item it was.
Here's my claim to immediate fame. I actually stayed in the Dover Stage one time. Good pictures there lads. Obviously many years ago in a different pre kids world for me. I remember it being full of bus drivers for some reason. Thats my lasting memory of it for some peculiar reason..bus drivers...but it was quite okay. Its obviously hard to remember the detail but it was probably a budget style hotel but did the job and was in a good location. Wanted to stay there again some time later and wondered for an age why they didnt answer the phone??
Here's the question.. has any other forum member ever stayed there, we could start an old boys club...although ermm maybe not.
I must admit it was the scene of my first job!
I was a waiter there in 1962 and will confirm that it was NOT a budget hotel at all. one of my first jobs was to make the tartar sauce by chopping capers and lay up and clear tables.
I met Rossi of Martini and Rossi who make Martini when he regularly stayed there so it wasn't down market and the restaurant was very popular and busy.
It was a Concrete framed structure so wasn't up to modernisation.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Your Time Machine was brilliant Rick, I'm sure we all thought so at the time and new people to the Forum, will click on to it and think so too.
Roger
As David H says, The Dover Stage was not at all downmarket. It was run, I think, by the same people as The White Cliffs Hotel at the time I was there in 1963. I don't think they had the same amount of gorgeous italian waiters that we had over at the White Cliffs. Ah, those were the days....
Brian Dixon
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uded to pop into the bar there looked a bit run down then,not quite upmarket as it was suposed to be.
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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It was a great place at the weekends for chatting up the girls that used to adorn its bar.Could never understand why I had to pay them tho'...doh...
only joking.A great place with happy memories.
Marek
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Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Great pictures and memories Paul, and thanks for the response from all. I just had to do a then and now one, so here it is from 11.30 this morning.
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Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Again just for comparison.
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Colin, out of curiosity, do you have any idea what it would cost to demolish Burlington House in terms of explosives and clearing-up operations?
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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As Burlington House contains asbestos you can rule out explosives.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
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