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    Re #1773: the demolition site near Bluebirds is that of the old Gateway Hovertel hotel. I stayed there briefly for a few days when I first came to Dover in 1987. I used to roll in merry after the pubs closed and the night porter would open the bar and we would have a couple of drinks and a chat, he was an old seafarer himself. Many years later I met Chris, the lady who is now my wife. She said that her father used to work at the Gateway Hovertel as night porter after he retired, getting a little bit of extra money to put on the horses as her mum kept a tight rein on him. He had passed away by that time so we shall never know if it was him or not but it seems almost certain. Small world.

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