Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,707
22 December 2010
01:2786003Walking through Dover at various times today noted the following
1. Large chunk of masonry came of the top of the Metropole and landed in the street outside Subway - this happened about 3pm - lucky the town centre was quiet.
2. A large (3m sq ish) chuck of the first/second floor wall of Kings Kebab shop on the alley by the HMRC offices peeled off and crashed into the alley sometime around 9pm this evening.
Both appear to be caused by water/ice ingress
Please be careful out there as this is likely to happen to many more buildings in Dover as the thaw sets in
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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22 December 2010
01:4486004Are you sure it was part of the wall, Ross, not just a slab of the dead man's leg from the kebab shop?
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Ross Miller- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,707
22 December 2010
10:0786023oh it was definitely the wall
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
- Posts: 7,819
22 December 2010
10:1386025Some of central Dover does look as if its crumbling. Do you remember a few years back a large chunk of Burlington House fell onto the pavement below, and I mean a large chunk. Would clearly have killed anyone walking underneath. Fortunately no one walks along there, as to do so would shorten ones time on this planet considerably by breathing in the pungent truck fumes, lung numbing pollution on a grand scale. Nobody walks along there just as well...except for tourists and the foolhardy.
Ross I dont think I want to exit this mortal coil via the droppin masonry route!
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
22 December 2010
10:3086028ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
- Posts: 3,205
22 December 2010
11:5386043My daughter saw this happen and it nearly fell on a family with a young girl.
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Guest 706- Registered: 25 Oct 2010
- Posts: 285
22 December 2010
14:1486059I thought,wrongly, that it might have been this building.
But it did remind me to ask if it's still in the sorry state as when I took this photo two years ago.
Who owns this beautiful bulilding?
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
- Posts: 4,150
22 December 2010
17:5386090 Here`s the Kebab shop area this morning which I found closed off.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
- Posts: 4,150
22 December 2010
17:5486091Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
22 December 2010
18:3386096what a terrifying thought that someone could have been walking underneath at the time.
we have stacks of neglected buildings in dover with absentee landlords that will no doubt never be taken to task.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
22 December 2010
19:0986106It looks like there might have been a window there at some time, it is a very regular shape. So very lucky nobody was injured with all that lot coming down.
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Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
- Posts: 3,205
22 December 2010
20:0186108From the Council Fishmongers Lane (picture above) will be closed for 3 weeks
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Guest 706- Registered: 25 Oct 2010
- Posts: 285
23 December 2010
00:5986139Photo to go with my comment as it didn't seem to be working earlier
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
- Posts: 2,096
23 December 2010
01:1486141Penny, I think in the 60s that building housed what is now the Jobcentre, but no idea who owns it now.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
23 December 2010
08:1486144been saying this for the last 12 months.but no one was listning where they.councilers take note.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
- Posts: 7,819
23 December 2010
09:4186154Gosh alarming pictures there Colin. Well done with those. I often nip back to Boland Towers through that very lane as a kind of short cut. Round by the kebab shop and on pass the new extra whitening dentist. Quite shocking to see how something can collapse like that. There's enough masonry there to kill someone...some child...terrible thought.
Penny yes that building is still exactly the same, we did feature it here in the past as one of Dover's appalling eyesores. Particularly so as the building is essentially very attractive. I dont know who owns it but isnt it a great shame to see it left like that and on the tourist path too.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
23 December 2010
09:4686157yes it was the old job centre and a few years back was being workred on inside
as to the shortcut
i often use it to go towards sea front and other places i need to visit was a handy short cut.
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Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
- Posts: 3,205
26 December 2010
17:1286505As I walked up the town after watching those who were swimming today I was passed by Ashley the Town Centre P.C. in a van,when I got to Subway there was a largish crowd opposite at St Mary's Church all looking up above Subway.
I heard Ashley talking about the falling masonery last week and as I looked some more had come down just missing more people,shame it missed some of those Pi** heads who seem to hang around the 8 B*** all day,everyday.
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
26 December 2010
17:1586508Not words for a D.D.C. Cllr to use John.
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
- Posts: 3,205
26 December 2010
17:2086511May be not Vic,but it would have been spelt right apart from the *****
Any way us Socialist Cllrs know all the in words to use!
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
