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- 22 September 2008 16:596421Paul - I assume this is the new boat building and not the old one ??Been nice knowing you :)
- 22 September 2008 17:186422Hi Paul - youve got me there re Boat Building..its the gaggle of delapidation just past the Swimming Complex as you head eastwards towards the docks. I thought it was an old TA building or a substation. I think the fire was in the substation.
Pictures are on frontpage.email: dover7@msn.com - 22 September 2008 20:306436It was the boat house but it was not new it needed to come down anyway.
Vic M
- 22 September 2008 20:446440i would imagine that the last time it was used as a boathouse was when the romans visited us.
- 23 September 2008 07:236449Well I never!..you learn something new everyday. So that was a boathouse..was it an old lifeboat station or something? Baffled....so much to learn, so little time!
lol re Romans!email: dover7@msn.com - 23 September 2008 08:216454Here goes
On the left is the former Skating Rink turned Seaplane Hanger, demolished in the 1980s for the road widening
Next is the former Army Recruitment building - the centre portion actual dates back til at least the 1860s and was part of the Guilford Battery that stood on the site. (The road now almost touches the building).
Finally the boatshed and other boat related buildings.
Behind is Motes Bulwark, the Henrican gun platformBeen nice knowing you :) - 23 September 2008 10:326461It was a boat house in my young days for the Army Cadets.
maybe that was Roman times.....
- 23 September 2008 12:316465Oh Wow!! youve come up with a gem there Paul..wot a picture!!
Never knew any of that existed. Its all fascinating and Im sure everyone will be pleased to see that. So now I see what the term Boathouse refers to. Well I never... Im quite clearly the new boy around here.
Always thought you had the look of the legion commander about you DavidHemail: dover7@msn.com - 23 September 2008 14:116467And here are the seaplanes on the beach
Been nice knowing you :) - 23 September 2008 14:446469So you were in the ACF there too David. Remember the .22 shooting in the old Seaplane hanger?
- 23 September 2008 17:086476Wow remember all that being there when many years ago I lived in eastcliff, you don't realise as its so over grown.
- 23 September 2008 18:576491.... and I don't suppose any of you got any photos of the area/buildings before they were demolished ?????Been nice knowing you :)
- 23 July 2009 11:2026139The roof of the old TA centre is now collapsing. What a shame for this lovely historic building to be left to decay like this. Not a good photo, but one can just see in the centre of the pic.
- 23 July 2009 21:3726167do they still have a "to let" sign from an estate agents there?
that always used to crack me up. - 23 July 2009 21:4026169This is because they brought it for about £40k and were expecting to sell it for near on £400k
Been nice knowing you :) - 24 July 2009 02:5026175This is a plan of the seaplane station at the end of the First World War. It had been operated by the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) who amalgamated with the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) to form the RAF in 1918, which is the date of the plan.
It is a low resolution image which I copied from an item on sale on Ebay. It was part of a large collection of plans on sale by our erstwhile forumite Tunnel Rat and I was not particularly interested in the rest.
Three hangars are shown. The buildings behind them are labelled Quarters etc and must be the ones that remain.
It is a great shame that these have been allowed to fall derelict. I often used to muse that they would make a lovely spacious home for somebody, if they didn't mind all the traffic passing by, and would preserve this fascinating piece of history for the nation. Now they are just a continuation of the sorry ribbon of decay witnessed by the host of travellers passing by to the docks.
Another sad and unnecessary blot on the Dover landscape and the fact that this has been allowed to happen puts paid to any attempt to justify the building of thousands of new houses at Whitfield. If no attempt is made to capitalise on existing priceless assets such as these then who can possibly endorse the construction of new buildings on greenfield sites?
- 24 July 2009 09:3526196Ed,
Would there be any chance of emailing me that image please for interests sake? It's hard to make out the detail on that scale. You'll find me at phil.precambrian@btopenworld.com.
Thanks! - 24 July 2009 13:2626205Phil
Have emailed you the original scan as downloaded from Ebay. Frustratingly, it is not high enough resolution to make out all the detail. I only reduced it slightly to post on Dover Forum.
I would have loved to have purchased the original but it was bundled in with a host of other plans, mainly detail drawings of ditches and things on the Western Heights fortifications.
I didn't want all the other stuff as I am down by the head with all manner of books and plans and prints etc and long-suffering Her Indoors understandably kicks up a bit!
I think it was Tunnel Rat (John Vaughan) who put these items up for sale to clear some space. Maybe Scotchie or somebody else in the WHPS might have purchased the collection?
Ed - 7 January 2011 16:5588045Sadly the roof of the old TA centre is now definitely buckling and collapsing. What a pity something couldn't be done to preserve it.
- 7 January 2011 17:0088046phil
how long did it take you to trawl back to this thread?
that building is a disgrace and an embarrassment to dover.
