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Up to 1799
5 Notes
6 Images
1192
c. 1192
St Radigund's Abbey is founded
1203
1203
The Maison Dieu is built
1532
1532
"Proposal for a New Harbour at Dover" by Vincenzo Volpe (painting)
1573
14 July 1573
Elizabeth I processes through Dover
1595
1595
"The State of Dover Haven with the New Workes" (map)
1606
1606
Dover Harbour Board is formed by Royal Charter
1661
1661
Dower / Dover (map)
1665
1665
Maison Dieu House is built
1747
1747
"Dover" by Richard Wilson (painting)
1780
2
c. 1780
Dover Castle (engraving)
1800 to 1899
7 Notes
30 Images
4 Articles
1808
1808
"Dover Castle, Kent" by Thomas Whitcombe (painting)
1827
1827
Dover from "Ports of England"
1837
1837
St Radigund's Abbey (illustration)
1839
1839
Buckland Bridge and The Bull Inn (painting)
1841
1841
"Dover (from the Ramsgate Road)" by W H Bartlett (engraving)
1844
c. 1844
Construction of the Wellington Dock (painting)
1844
Embarquement A Douvres (illustration)
1847
November 1847
Preparatory work begins for the Admiralty Pier
1848
3 April 1848
Building work begins on the Admiralty Pier
1849
1849
St Mary's Church (illustration)
1850
c. 1850
New Bridge
1 June 1850
Coroner's inquest into the drowning of George Norton in Dover Harbour
1860
c. 1860
Dover to Deal road and Dover Castle (illustration)
1860s
East Cliff
1860s
St James's Street
1861
1861
Construction of Fort Burgoyne begins
1866
1866
St James' Church before 1860s refurbishment
1868
1868
Fort Burgoyne is completed
1869
c. 1869
Castle Street
1869
The Roman Pharos at Dover Castle
1870
c. 1870
St James New Church
1871
1871
The Admiralty Pier is completed
1875
24 August 1875
Matthew Webb begins the first ever successful swim of the English Channel
1880
1880s
Dover beach/seafront
1880s
Marine Parade / Dover seafront
1880s
The Clock Tower and Lifeboat Station
1881
19 January 1881
Newspaper storm report
1883
1883
Coastal railway / Samphire Hoe site (illustration)
1890
c. 1890
London Road, Temple Ewell
c. 1890
Brook House
1891
1891
Dover College (engraving)
1892
1892
Dover Choral Union is formed
1893
22 May 1893
Dover Promenade Pier opens
1894
2
c. 1894
Charlton Churches, old and new
1895
c. 1895
Admiralty Pier
1898
1898
Lord Warden Hotel
c. 1898
Antwerp Hotel / Cannon Street / Market Square
1898
Burlington Hotel
1899
c. 1899
Harbour and Grand Shaft Barracks
1900 to 1949
6 Notes
118 Images
3 Articles
2 Books
1900
c. 1900
Edgar Lancefield Wood, Worthington Street
c. 1900
Admiralty Pier railway
c. 1900
Dover Beach
1900s
Alkham Road / Kearsney Court, Temple Ewell
c. 1900
Kearsney Abbey
Early 1900s
Market Square
Early 1900s
Market Square
Early 1900s
Biggin Street
c. 1900
Kearsney Abbey
c. 1900
Market Square and Castle Street
Early 1900s
Dover Harbour Station
Early 1900s
Athol Terrace
Early 1900s
View from Dover Castle
1902
1902
The Prince of Wales Pier opens
1902
Dover Charters and Other Documents in the Possession of the Corporation of Dover
1902
Prince of Wales Pier and Clock Tower
c. 1902
Dover Lifeboat
June 1902
The White Horse and St James' Church (illustration)
1903
c. 1903
Promenade Pier and Burlington Hotel
c. 1903
Buckland Bridge
c. 1903
St Margaret's at Cliffe, High Street
1904
c. 1904
Dover Promenade Pier
c. 1904
New Bridge
1904
Attwood outfitters and The Crown public house, London Road
1905
c. 1905
Marine Parade
c. 1905
The Fox Inn, Temple Ewell
c. 1905
The Marquis of Granby, Alkham
1905
William Wood Burkett, Mayor of Dover
1906
c. 1906
Dover Harbour
2 July 1906
High Street
1907
c. 1907
Connaught Park
c. 1907
Dover Promenade
July 1907
Cricket match at Crabble Athletic Ground
1908
c. 1908
Prince of Wales Pier
c. 1908
Burlington Hotel / Promenade Pier
c. 1908
Dover Promenade
c. 1908
Dover Castle
c. 1908
Admiralty Pier
c. 1908
Dover Beach
1908
Dover Pageant
1909
Pre-1909
Dover Town Hall
c. 1909
St Mary's Church
c. 1909
Marine Parade and Dover Beach
2
25 July 1909
Louis Blériot makes the first ever flight across the English Channel
16 October 1909
"Dover's New Harbour Opened by the Prince of Wales" from The Graphic (illustration)
1910
c. 1910
Buckland Paper Mill
c. 1910
Biggin Street
c. 1910
Dover Seafront/Promenade
c. 1910
St Mary's Church
c. 1910
Buckland Avenue
c. 1910
Minnis Lane, River
c. 1910
Lower Road, River
c. 1910
Temple Ewell school and church, from the railway
c. 1910
Constable's Tower, Dover Castle
1910
Buffs soldiers marching on Castle Street
2 June 1910
Charles Rolls completes the first non-stop double crossing of the Channel by plane
8 June 1910
Captain Webb memorial unveiled on Dover seafront
6 November 1910
Shipwreck of "The Preussen" in Crab Bay
1912
c. 1912
Pencester Road
c. 1912
Rifles Monument and Grand Hotel
c. 1912
Connaught Park
c. 1912
Shepherdswell Green
16 April 1912
Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly across the English Channel
1913
c. 1913
Grand Hotel and Granville Gardens
Pre-1913
Waldershare Park
1914
Pre-1914
St James' Church
8 September 1914
Sentries on guard at Whitfield
1916
1916
Annals of Dover
14 April 1916
Killick & Back, newspaper advert
1917
30 April 1917
Aerial photo of seafront area
5
19 August 1917
The Crabble tram accident
1918
c. 1918
"Dover from Shakespeare Cliff"
1918
"The Wounded at Dover" by John Lavery (painting)
19 December 1918
Homecoming parade for Douglas Haig, Commander of the British Expeditionary Force
1919
1919
Market Square
1920
1920s
Biggin Street / Prince Albert
c. 1920
Shipdem's House (the Round House) / British Legion Club
1920
Shipman's Way
1920s
St. Margaret's Bay
c. 1920
Entrance to Duke of York's Royal Military School
1920s
Dovorian Restaurant, Flashman's and Killick & Back - Market Square
1920s
London County & Westminster Bank and The Walmer Castle pub, Market Square
27 December 1920
The Buckland Picture House opens
1921
27 July 1921
Unveiling of the Dover Patrol Memorial
1922
October 1922
Royal Fleet Reserve, Dover Branch
1923
1923
The Buckland Picture House is renamed the Regent Picture House
1927
2
1927
Dover Promenade Pier is demolished
1927
Waterloo Crescent
1927
Dover Patrol Memorial
1928
1928
Market Square
c. 1928
Marine Parade
c. 1928
Castle Street
2
1928
Dover Trades United Football Club
1930
1930s
Dover Promenade
1930
Dover Priory Station
1930s
Shakespeare Cliff
1930s
Lower Road Viaduct, Temple Ewell
8 January 1930
The Granada Cinema opens
1931
1931
Tram on Lewisham Road, River
c. 1931
"Illuminations", Granville Gardens
1933
1933
Granville Gardens
1933
The Prince of Wales at Dover Castle
1935
1935
Buckland Bridge
c. 1935
The Village Pond, Chapel Lane, St. Margaret's
1936
c. 1936
The Railway Hotel (Railway Bell)
c. 1936
Biggin Street, bus and tram
31 May 1936
The Regent Picture House closes
2 October 1936
Kearsney Motor Garage, newspaper advert
1937
c. 1937
Buckland Bridge
1937
Lewisham Road, River
1937
Lewisham Road, River
1938
c. 1938
Dover Beach
c. 1938
Dover Castle, Garrison Church, Pharos and seafront
1939
c. 1939
Dover Anti-Aircraft & Radar
February 1939
Ladywell
1940
1940s
Wellington Dock
28 August 1940
Wreck of crashed Messerschmitt on Church Farm, Church Whitfield
1944
1944
Castle Street
26 September 1944
The Unlikely Death of Patience Ransley
1947
1947
Dover - Spring 1947 (film)
1950 to 1999
8 Notes
15 Images
1950
1950s
The Royal Oak, Whitfield
1950s
Western Docks
1950s
Dover Harbour from the air
1950s
Workers in front of the Steam Crane, Western Docks
1951
1951
Dover Castle from the Deal Road
1952
1952
The Red Lion, St. Margaret's at Cliffe
1953
1953
The first drive-on drive-off ferry berths are opened at the Eastern Docks
1957
c. 1957
The Dover Stage Hotel
1958
c. 1958
Dover Promenade
1960
1960
The Granada Cinema is renamed the ABC
c. 1960
The Gateway Flats
May 1960
The Archer pub during construction
1971
July 1971
The Roman Painted House is discovered
1973
3
June 1973
Castlemount School after being destroyed by fire
1977
12 May 1977
The Roman Painted House opens to the public
1978
c. 1978
Castle Hill and Dover Castle
4 July 1978
Dover hoverport opens
1980
1980s
Hovercraft at Dover Hoverport
1981
1981
Charlton Shopping Centre opens
1982
30 October 1982
The ABC Cinema closes
1992
28 September 1992
Dover's Bronze Age Boat is discovered during construction work for the A20
2000 to Present
4 Notes
5 Images
2000
1 October 2000
The last hovercraft crossing is made from Dover
2005
20 July 2005
Queen Elizabeth II visits Dover
2006
2 September 2006
The 'Tour of Britain' cycle race passes through Dover
2008
10 July 2008
Cruise ship 'Carnival Splendor' is christened at Dover Cruise Terminal
2012
10 July 2012
Dover Port Control / Eastern Arm and White Cliffs
4 August 2012
South Foreland Lighthouse on the White Cliffs
2016
26 November 2016
P&O ferries in Dover Harbour
2017
2
7 May 2017
Banksy artwork appears on Dover building
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