Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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17 October 2009
17:1430774Another book from Ian Allan the famous transport publisher just come out. Bygone Kent, a colour album with a couple of excellent shots of Dover. Lovely line up of 9 East Kent buses below the castle in 1958, plus a 4th May 1969 shot from the cliffs looking down on the ferry terminal. All pure nostalgia. Only £12.99 in Sussex book shop.
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17 October 2009
17:3230775Also, many fine pictures of Dover in Heyday of East Kent Buses, from the same publisher, (see picture of the Market Square). Again, you don`t have to be a bus or transport enthusiast to enjoy these. Like the railways, when photographer`s took these pictures, it was for the love of the subject, perhaps not realising at the time how much the background scenery would change forever. Cars, police boxes, old traffic signs etc
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17 October 2009
17:4030776Colin it is not nostalgia for myself I was here then and it was a great town.
The town was filled up each day with the public and cars and buses going up and down each way in the high st it was open for all in them days,you got across the road where you could.
In 1954 to1958 I was selling the newspapers on the St corners PART-TIME then in 1958 at the age of sixteen I was off in the army I was in the Buffs.came out in 1964 because I was taken very ill and was in the Royal seabathing Hos. at Margate for over a year.Dover will never be the same as it was then.
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17 October 2009
17:4530777I would get a bus there to take me home to Weastbury Rd the bus would stop stop at Belgrave hill I would get off and walk up the hill to Westbury rd cost of this trip,wait for it.2p old money.
I think the 129 went up to Buckland/Hos.
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17 October 2009
17:5130778Small world Vic. I was born up Westbury road, but we moved in 1960. My mum always had to push us up Belgrave hill. Less parked cars about then, but still didn`t send buses up there. Probably she wouldn`t look back on it as nostalgia.
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17 October 2009
17:5830779Agreed with you up top Vic. Never could be the same again. I remember though in the late 50s, early 60s when buses were always packed, with relief buses put on, and Saturdays the town was bustling, especially in the Market Hall and Square. Out of town supermarkets have helped destroy it all I`m sure.
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17 October 2009
18:0430780Colin you must know me and my family I was born at number 34 and my family were still there right up to the 1980s.
And when I came out of Hos/in 1971 I had a coucnil house in westbury Rd no 76next door was the green family. What was your house number mate/. And you right they could not get them buses up there
I also went TO Belgrave School in the late 1940s then on to St Martins, then on to Astor left Astor about 1954
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17 October 2009
18:3130782Hi Vic. Number 54 sir. We got the house from new, but I was disappointed in later years as I was told we had the chance of the house on Kearsney railway station. Never forgave my parents for that, missing all those steam trains pounding through.
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17 October 2009
18:3330783Young sister went to Belgrave school late 50s, myself and 2 other sisters went to St Martin`s in the mid fifties. I can still remember teacher`s names, which surprises others who can`t.
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17 October 2009
18:4330784Can`t remember eating any baked beans there, but do remember my first taste of liver, and spitting it out and never eaten it since. Re Westbury road, Moats at 52, Brenchlys (Mrs still there) at 56. Remember Mr Knott near the top who owned the barbers shop at Buckland? My father used to take me all the way out there for a haircut, before we went to Frank and Ben`s at the town hall.
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17 October 2009
20:0730794i think that there is a website for belgrave school with pictures.
will try to get info.
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17 October 2009
20:1830798Thank you Howard. Would like to see some pics of St Martins in the 50s as well. Did they take school photo`s each year then? Can`t seem to find any.
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17 October 2009
22:1730818Yes there is on face book. I also know the familys you are talking about,my brother went out with Janet moat for sometime she was good looking. After that she got married and they open up a fish shop, and they also done alot of ballroom dancing for years.
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18 October 2009
12:3130858Good morning Vic. Been down the town with my sister much of the summer, and she knows Janet Moat, and we bumped into her and husband Don, and had a good old natter about the past. Although I was very young, I still remembered his van parked along Westbury, as of course, there were few vehicles along the road in those days. Very pleasant couple.
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18 October 2009
12:3530859In the 60s, the Beatles had the record for having 6 records in the top 10 at once. Just found I`ve got the top 6 posts in the top 10 on here at the moment. Has anyone ever gone for a record? Not intentionally though.
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19 October 2009
18:0830950VIC. Dan Grilli on the right, my dad from Westbury road who you may recognise. Pre-war shot on Prince of Wales pier.
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19 October 2009
18:2230952Colin just great mate and the photos are also great,and you are right about the cars,but in 1961 my dad got me a Vaxhall Velox what a car 3speed gear box top speed about 65 to 70 it was big 6seater car,worth alot now. and it was green.I was also in the army the girls love being in it but they did not think the same of me
And I was a TEDDY BOY WITH ALL THE GEAR
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19 October 2009
18:2730953I remember one of my school teachers at that time Vic, with a black vauxhall velox, and, were they yellowish wheels? Always thought he was rich having one of them.
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19 October 2009
18:4030956I had one but we was not rich my dad was a forman at the Dover Eng/works, I also worked there when I came out of the army.
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19 October 2009
18:4930957The engineering works. Another Dover landmark gone forever. I`ve got a picture below from that new book, which gives it`s name to this post. From
1958.
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