Guest 717- Registered: 16 Jun 2011
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Wonder who started that?
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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we are all bereft helen that someone could damage such an architectural icon.
Guest 717- Registered: 16 Jun 2011
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I know! By the way road is shut while they try get it under control.
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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When you need `Operation Stack` .....it`s never there.....
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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who or what ever started it needs a medal.
bet being serious i wonderd why the a 20 was rather quite.
any pictures yet.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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Problems with planning on Westmount, then it catches fire. Struggling to complete a conversion in an old church, then it catches fire. Delays in planning and negotiating the removal of radio masts in Burlington House, then it catches fire.
How did Brooke House survive to be demolished?
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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OK ......lets leave it to DDC............again........
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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lots of police activaty heading for the town,some heavy traffic coming from the docks and no sign of smoke.
Guest 717- Registered: 16 Jun 2011
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Have seen pictures on Facebook. Smoke coming from the top floors. Does not look too bad but they are just pictures, think we need PaulB on the case!
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Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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This was on the Dover Express Facebook page: Dover Express
A fire has broken out in Burlington House. The fire brigade have cordoned off the street. Smoke "bellowing" from bottom levels and lower windows blown out, according to eye witnesses.
I saw the photo on Facebook (also on Dover history pages)
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Guest 731- Registered: 8 Nov 2011
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This is on the Kent Fire Service web site
Derelict building fire - Dover Location St James Lane, Dover Attendance Ten fire engines, one command support unit, one incident support unit, one height vehicle Less Details ... Details Approximately 60 firefighters are dealing with a serious fire on the first floor of 12 storeys in a derelict former hotel and office building in St James Lane, Dover. The whole building is heavily smoke-logged.
Crews are using eight sets of breathing apparatus, two main jets, two hydrants and an open water feed to tackle the blaze, and are searching for occupants which have been reported.
Updates to follow.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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It regularly appears on websites like 28 days later than the like so people often illegally access it, so this doesn't surprise me
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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Burn baby burn.
Good title for a record that.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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rejoice!!
taken about an hour ago, our heritage attraction has been saved.
Guest 717- Registered: 16 Jun 2011
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Only photos I have seen are from a distance and can only see smoke at the top, must have risen there. It has blown some windows apparently...they are going to look great boarded up for or Olympic travelling tourists! Welcome to Dover and the most obviously horrendous building in it!
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Though they were going to blow it up as the finale of the Rizzle Kicks gig, hence the road being closed :)
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 717- Registered: 16 Jun 2011
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Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
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Just drove by there and more Fire Engines were on the way. A small crowd gathered in hope to watch the place crumble and fall.
Guest 659- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Fire contained. 60 firefighters and 10 engines originally at the scene. Building smoke-logged but not likely to burn down
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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When the news report described a "derelict building" in Dover I thought that narrows it down to fifty or so. Burlington house represents a warning to other towns of the folly of buildings like this. We certainly have, at our feet, examples of poor town planning.
