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     Matey wrote:
    I remember Charlie Holland, I was a kid but we used to live two doors along from him in the sixties. I also remember those whale bones, I wonder where they went? Rotted I expect...


    https://www.dover-kent.co.uk/connaught_park.html

    A famous landmark in the park was an archway formed by the jaw bones of a large whale. They were presented to the town in 1866 by a Mr W.T. Tourney and later erected in the park. By the early 1960s there was concern that the bones were decaying and the Council thought that the structure was dangerous and beyond repair. They were loath to do anything for fear of public outcry but the problem was solved for them when, in March 1967, vandals entered the park one night and cut it down using a saw, leaving the Council to just remove the debris

    Vandals with a saw? Sounds like Brook House before Brook House

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