Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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I hope post 1773 isn't Howard's version of a postcard of Dover!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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where is this plaque?
marek is excluded from this one.
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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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.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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Some refs to this interesting gent - is the photo in Dover Museum, I have forgotten-?
Peter FECTOR aged 90 in 1814, born in Holland 1723 (portrait? In Dover Museum?)
Peter FECTOR of Dover owner of freehold at St Margaret at Cliff near Dover, house and land in occupn of ---- FORD (1754 Kent Poll)
Peter FECTOR of Dover, owner of Hoptons Manor, Alkham (Sketch of Dover by Ledger 1799 p.161)
Peter FECTOR Esq. (photo of Portrait) in article re MINET & FECTOR by the late Colin Matson
(Arch. Cantiana Vol.81, p.39)
From Kent Co.Council Archives ref U491 TI (complex documents):
FACTOR family: PROOF TITLE to property Maxton, Kearsney, Betshanger, Alkham, Whitfield, River, Ash, Temple Ewell etc
The Fector family was connected to Minet and Laurie families.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The above photo is at the side of St Paul Church.Dover.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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correct vic, now where is this in dover?
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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They are the old arms house.s, which some of the old folk of Dover live in.I must say I would have liked to lived in one myself and all the history that goes with them they are by Cowgate Cemetry
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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you're on form today vic, i think they are owned by dover municipal charities.
anyway, where was i standing when i took this one?
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Yes you are right they are owned by the M/C,That is taken at the back of the homes in Maison Dieu Rd from the p/park or Pentcester Gardens.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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near enough vic, i was in the stagecoach bus and car park.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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There you go,this page of yours is now bigger that the old UKIP one of Mine, I will have to do soming about that.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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where was i standing when i took this earlier?
Alec Sheldon
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Outside Eurochicken, corner of Wood St. Not far from Jan's place.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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near enough alec i was level with the tanning salon.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Been nice knowing you :)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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two guesses from me the derelict paper mill or the museum.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Wrong on both counts :)
Been nice knowing you :)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i would have said on the site of the "dover engineering works", but i don't know where they were based locally.
Keith Sansum1
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bridge street howard
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Slowly narrowing down the 'industrial activities' of Dover but try the other side of town
Been nice knowing you :)
Been nice knowing you :)
