Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Not derelict, just unoccupied. Raking in rent for the phone masts on the roof whilst paying no Business Rates....
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 731- Registered: 8 Nov 2011
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Guest 719- Registered: 11 Jul 2011
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THESE ARE WHAT I TOOK AT 2130 STILL ABOUT 15 FIRE ENGINE,S ON SITE
Yorkshire Born And Yorkshire Bred
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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What an opportunity missed. Get any people out of course and from neighbouring buildings/businesses too. Then charge tickets for Dover's best fire-display.
Hope no one was hurt.
Roger
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Got some pictures and words on this fire now on the frontpage. It certainly woke up a sleepy sunday evening around here. I stared at the smoke in disbelief before the penny dropped that it was actually on fire. It happened just as yours truly was settling in to the big match...but I grappled for the camera double quick and got the frontpage pictures.
Here also is a picture I had through from John Sheridan showing all the appliances in attendance..thanks John.
If that thing went up it could have been monumental.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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On BBC local news this morning they said it was arson - I've alwys said there's too much arson about !
Roger
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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In this case, not enough, Roger.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Another pic to add to the mix, similar to the frontpage..but slightly closer zooming in.
Guest 684- Registered: 26 Feb 2009
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Rumours abound of people dossing in Burlington House, along with the multi-storey car park and the former Dolphin Lane 'jungle' (you know, the site of the one-time Leneys Brewery and later the Martin Walter Mercedes-Benz showroom, from those days when that part of Dover used to function).
Wonder if it was a stray fag or something lit by a, ahem, 'resident'? Who knows.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
i blame the skate boarders for this,to much arson on show.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Have added another pic to the frontpage. You can see a man watching from Western Heights..yet he is not in any of the other pictures I took, nowhere to be seen yet all taken at the same time. Spooky!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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they keep referring to the building as derelict, even meridian news used the term yesterday.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
paulb,thats howard in the back ground,
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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My be the ghost of JG
Audere est facere.
Guest 684- Registered: 26 Feb 2009
- Posts: 635
Olympic torched?
What an outrageous thought...
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 9 Nov 2011
- Posts: 2,226
Martin your observation has been raised in many quarters.
Watty
Guest 684- Registered: 26 Feb 2009
- Posts: 635
The bloody building can't even burn down properly!
I don't think the ghostly figure on the heights was East Kent's late king of the Swan Vestas to whom many of you have alluded, but actually the ghost of Dover past, egging the bloody building to be razed to the ground at long last.
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 9 Nov 2011
- Posts: 2,226
I was out of town , got my alibi.
Watty
Guest 684- Registered: 26 Feb 2009
- Posts: 635
I think you'd have been given the Freedom of Dover and carried aloft through the streets if you'd done it Paul!
Andy
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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2 teenagers have handed themselves in and have been charged with arson.
the lengths some people will go to just to make themselves popular.
Yorkshire Born And Yorkshire Bred
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