Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Found this item among a bit of sorting today, dated on the back 14th July 1971, my mum`s birthday, and it`s a pencil drawing of where she used to go for a drink with freinds. Is it a one off, or has anyone seen this drawing before?
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Nice one - I am sure something Paul Skelton would like for the Pubs Website
http://www.dover-kent.com/Wellington-Hotel.html
Incidentally it closed on 21 July 1971, so the item is quite timely !
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Lots of info there.
Looked like a good solid pub with character (and characters, too).
Was it pulled down just to extend a Town Centre Tesco's ? bit of a shame if it was.
Roger
I think it was given the boot Roger.
Guest 684- Registered: 26 Feb 2009
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Yes, Roger, the Wellington Hotel was on the corner by St Mary's churchyard...it was indeed replaced by a Tescos supermarket (some things never change). Another example of mindless post-war civic vandalism - and not the Luftwaffe's doing, as much of post-War Dover's pervasive mythology persists in suggesting, when reasons for the follies of the past and present are trotted out.
My grandad used to drink there (among other places!). I think The Rose was over the road, on the corner of New Street.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Facinating bit of Dover history.
While it is sad that such old and historical buildings be demolished there does need to be a balance struck. We cannot preserve everything and must not always block change, keen as I am on history and keeping historical buildings.
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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Whilst I agree with you, Barry, it's better here than in Japan where they have no concept of preserving history. Over there, if an old building is in the way, it's either bulldozed immediately or they wait for the next earthquake to destroy it; our Japanese friends, every single one of them, look at us like we're gone mad when we talk about preserving history.....when two of them were over here earlier this year, they couldn't fathom out how The White Horse had stood where it does since 1347 without being removed for a newer building! And, on a previous visit, two of our friends went to see Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford Upon Avon without realising that it was the actual house and not a modern replica!
True friends stab you in the front.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Interesting Andy - strange attitudes. Reminds me of an American I met in Castle Street once, must have been lack in the late 70's who pointed at the castle and asked 'is that real?'
His face was a picture when I said yes and it is around 800 years old and pointed out the 'bit' that sticks up and is around 1,900 years old!
Guest 686- Registered: 5 May 2009
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The Americans have very little sense of history it seems.
An acquaintance of mine, now sadly departed, used to conduct tours of various stately homes for our American friends. On a visit to Windsor Castle the grounds were overflown by Concorde - making a hell of a racket apparently - one of the visitors asked why this grand stately home had been built so close to Britain's busiest airport!!
Phil West
If at first you don't succeed, use a BIGGER hammer!!
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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Not just Americans - some British don't have a lot of history sense either.
Many years ago I was telling my step-grandfather (!) (he didn't have a lot of intelligence), I said I would like to visit Stonehenge, one of the places I had at that time not seen.
He frowned, and said:
"You wouldn't want to see it now - I was in the army on Salisbury Plain in the First War, AND IT WAS A RUIN THEN !!!
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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It was one of the pubs both my wife and myself used in the 60s.
Jan Higgins
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I always used to meet up with my husband in there after we had gone our seperate ways shopping. When we had the children with us we always went into the back bar.
We might have met in there at some time Vic.
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