Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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29 October 2009
17:3131926While I was on my travels this morning I noticed that numbers 2-6 Cambridge Terrace (next to The Carpathian Restaurant) are now vacant and boarded up. The premises were recently occupied by KCC Social Services & WCCP (White Cliffs Countryside Project) who have both relocated to Melbourne Avenue & Townwall Street respectively.
These 5 magnificent 5 storey (including basement) Georgian terrace houses would improve the whole area if refurbished back to their original state, I wonder who owns the property, KCC?
Does anyone have any photographs before they were turned into offices?
Guest 684- Registered: 26 Feb 2009
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29 October 2009
17:3931929Hi Barry,
Myself and Andy Stucken noticed the very same thing last week as we shuffled beer-wards for a foaming flaggon or six of Jim Gleeson's finest at Cullin's Yard.
Lovely buildings they've always been too - and still are. How long do you reckon they're going to remain boarded-up, fellow Forumites? Shall we run a book on it? In a decade's time, will they have gained the same crumbling, rustic cachet as Townwall Street's "Regeneration - coming soon..." grey hoardings at the north end of the underpass? I know what my money's on...
Happy days!
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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29 October 2009
17:4731933Yes, they are lovely buildings, and should not go the way of No 10 (Bridge street). I saw them in August when a lorry and crane were taking office furniture out through the windows.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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29 October 2009
17:5031936i spotted that too, truly stunning buildings.
yet more to disappoint the cruise ship passengers.
29 October 2009
18:1431939Right in the eyeline as well.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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29 October 2009
18:2831945So is it cheaper moving in up Melbourne? And whose idea was it?
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
29 October 2009
18:3531948You'll be hard pressed to find someone to own up if it is social services.
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29 October 2009
18:5131950DHB own the premises. KCC Social Services site moved into the old Melbourne School site. Saves tax payers rental on Cambridge Terrace premises which they have being trying to vacate for many years.
Watty
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29 October 2009
18:5431951Sorry the area address is New Bridge not Bridge Street.
Watty
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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29 October 2009
19:0831956Looking on the VOA site for another business, the business rates for these buildings are phenomenal, no wonder they're now empty.
DHB will have to pay on these empty properties and they won't want to keep paying for long, I'd have thought, not without any income from them.
Roger
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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29 October 2009
19:2631959Wouldn`t it be good if some cruise companies moved into them as offices. Might get a discount from DHB for bringing their ships in here. Probably too small though?
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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29 October 2009
20:1431968Lovely building, such a shame to see them boarded up.
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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29 October 2009
20:5131978When I am your next M.P. I will move in there,use it for my office.
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I was also down there with my wife this morning and they are a very lovely buildings,some where there must a company who could move in there ,with some backing from the D,D,C, over the first two years. "Help with some funding."You only have to look at the back of the Town Hall to see how they will look after afew weeks.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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30 October 2009
08:3731994Although they are grand buildings and very attarctive, they are also in need of a damn good clean, so hope that whoever takes them on, insists on them being cleaned first.
At least with the black boards on the windows, they won't all get broken glass everywhere, but it does add to the air of dereliction.
It will need to be a big-profit making body that moves in there, the business rates will kill a smaller firm.
Roger
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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30 October 2009
08:5731997VICS already saying hes going to continue the trend of MP'S expenses thenb if he were ever elected!!!
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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30 October 2009
11:1232017New Bridge House was used as a bank in a tv series set in Dover starring, I believe Peter Barkworth, as the bank manager, must have been back in the 80's. Does anyone remember the name of the series?
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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30 October 2009
11:2132020Very interesting postings there Guys, thanks for the information, I didn't realise that DHB owned the premises. New Bridge House actually looks like a bank, I wonder if it was in the distant past?
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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30 October 2009
11:4132021I think it was a Bank in one of the old pictures that I have, I will try dig it out when I get home. Cannot find the one of Cambridge Terrace itself at the moment, I will have another look....
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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30 October 2009
12:5932030In the 1950 it was the young person job centre,or if you was still at school they had a dept that would you for when you left school they did help me to find a job and I was still at school.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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30 October 2009
13:4232040I think you may be thinking of "Telfords Change" - more like the 70s than the 80s though.
Roger