howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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on my way to be tortured at the dentists i noticed that the building at the junction of maison dieu road and castle street was just a pile of rubble.
it used to be a supermarket i believe, maybe someone knows the history?
Alec Sheldon
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It was the old MFI building Howard.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Sold to LIDL about 10 years ago but they only had a few items in there for a short time. There was a thread about this around the end of last year if I remember right.
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Now in process of purchase by DDC from LIDL as part of St. James development.
Watty
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I will not add to that last post, Mr Watkins.
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So sad these pointless posts.... I am off to the loo and that is all I have to say
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Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Of course...we should have realised as soon as it was demolished that it was part of the post war re-development often referred to as the 'tomorrow project' or DTIZ site as the council like to call it. One can read and see the plans in full detail in the 'The Eagle' issue 2 May 1950. Also read about other far fetched yarns....Man from Pluto visits earth.
Marek
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i can appreciate vic's frustration, i share it.
i think it was roger who said that nothing can be developed until everything is laid to waste, so it is a step forward.
the added bonus this time was that there wasn't a councillor there being photographed wearing a hard hat.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Careful Howard, they've only taken the bricks down, the steel frame is still there and there's a certain councillor who'll be down there quick as a shot to point out where he welded it!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i hope you are not referring to the ukip representative on the river parish council ray?
he is a star of television and the tabloid press, some respect please.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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A lot of the frame has come down today so the site is a lot clearer - presumably as soon as DDC own the land then the proposed flats can be a stand along scheme to bring some life back into the area and isn't affected by the rest of the development.
Wonder what this shop was - this is the best view I can find so far
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Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Howard, do you mean the one and only soon to be national treasure after appearing on every reality tv program available? Possibly
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At 68 my dad was called out of retirement by the oil well construction company OWECO as one of the last men alive able to 'do the job'. Only 25 of them in an exclusive club now all dead funny thing he didn't feel the need to brag about it...get my drift Mr M?
The reward is in the doing..and the meek shall inherit the earth.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Brian Dixon
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and tomorrow never comes.
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Paul - the building on the corner has presumably now gone,
the Castle St numbers started at the 'bottom of the hill' on the hill side of Maison Dieu Rd
from 1920 blue book:
12: J.Webber
14 Piano Warehouse
16 Fry and Miller
18 private residence, Pegg
20 Ernest Rigden
22 Bradley & Watson, solicitors
from 1933-34 blue book:
12 Castle Street (on corner of Maison Dieu Rd)/Woolcomber St: J. Webber & Son, watchmakers and firearms ammunition dealer
and at 14 Piano Warehouse, Robb and Wright.
16 Fry and Miller, architects
18 Castle Creameries
20 Castle Concrete
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