Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Good to see the work taking place, looks like it is probably the drainage works at present through part of the mill has been recently knocked down.
Also noticed that the new houses on the site of the sorting office are underway and some sort of activity in the old college building in Maison Dieu Road
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Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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The new buildings in Maison Dieu Road where the old sorting office will be known as Dofas Place
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Don't know how I hadn't noticed that the huge modern warehouse building had gone from next to the house !!
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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By the way, this is Buckland House a Grade 2 listed house from the last 18th/early 19th Century
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Lots going in up Buckland Paper Mill - first time I have awlaked past in quite a while.
They have certainly brought Buckland House back to life and although some of the new buildings are not my cup of tea it is nice to see a brown field site being used
Buckland House a few years back
Render removed and cleaned up
Modern buildings
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Nice renovation work done, but a shame the new buildings have the "Burlington effect".
Couldn't we apply the 10 King Street style for new buildings, please!?
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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And who would pay the cost of doing that.The house looks great and nice to see life back on that site
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A town of "Number 10's" would be extremely boring. Dover is a town where everyone has left their mark from the Romans onwards, and we should continue to do so
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Ross Miller
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I actually like the new buildings they are a lot better than many of the bland slab sided blocks that normally get put up
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Quite impressive - the old and the new buildings.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i like the new ones, just proves that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
Karlos- Location: Dover
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The smaller new build behind the existing mill buildings is called Watermark House.
http://www.tchg.org.uk/mediaFiles/downloads/47170745/Buckland_Property_spec_23_Nov.pdf
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Panoramic view of the back of the mill - you can just see the hole in the wall of the old building that they are working on
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Karlos- Location: Dover
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The new-build facing onto Crabble Hill now has a couple of signs - Conqueror House.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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very appropriate karlos.
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Wonder if these will still be there somewhere?
Jan Higgins
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What a very suitable name.
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Karlos- Location: Dover
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I saw some people moving into the smaller building today, so that's a good sign.
Karlos- Location: Dover
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For the forum photographers - the scaffolding is down on the Mill frontage showing its newly restored state.
Guest 697- Registered: 13 Apr 2010
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I noticed that at the weekend too, but didn't have a camera to hand. Talk about a transformation - it's great to see the building being brought back to life.
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