Five Years Ago

• PatrickS

  • Location: Marine Parade, Dover
  • Registered: 19 Sep 2015
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  13 September 2020     17:23364784
  #1      
  This view from September 2015 taken from the Prince Of Wales pier
  
  The pier is all but consumed now into DHB's Western Docks Revival development.
  The 'much loved' Burlington House has been replaced by an aircraft hanger.
  
  But in true British tradition (did you all watch the Last Night of the Proms) that bastion of English pride and joy - it might be smaller than the others but unlike them - it's still there!
  
  

  

  
  
  That Little Red Ice cream Van stands resolute and unmoved; proud in the Land of Whippy and Cones.
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• Button

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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  13 September 2020     21:33364792
  #2      
  Patrick; I have a problem: I ought to recognise everything in your shot but I confess I'm failing to recognise pretty much everything either side of and behind Burlington House! I shall go and look for myself with mk1 eyeball (and probably binoculars), but it would also be interesting to see a current shot if you have one or for you to talk us through the one above.
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• Karlos

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 1 Oct 2012
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  13 September 2020     21:46364793
  #3      
  Yes, when I looked at it earlier it looked wrong. Is it even Dover?
• Reginald Barrington

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 17 Dec 2014
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  13 September 2020     22:38364794
  #4      
  It's certainly an unusual view, on the right is one of the old buildings at the entrance to st James, the other side are the flats above gateway house and the top of the old carpet shop.
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• PatrickS

  • Location: Marine Parade, Dover
  • Registered: 19 Sep 2015
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  14 September 2020     09:54364796
  #5      
  Button, I see what you mean.
  My DTIZ demolition photos are archived except for this one. Will dig them out for another look. The photo was obviously taken from a low level.
  
  If you zoom in to the area at the bottom of BH you should see the Dover EuroChange building and a yield ‘give way’ sign for dual carriageway on the other side of the building.
  I think the NT Rix Yard is visible at the top of Astley Avenue and in the foreground the Outer Harbour slipway on Marine Parade.
  I think Reg has identified Gateway House and the old St James buildings to the right of BH but I’m not sure which ones they are. Reg, can you identify where exactly these are - back of Castle Street or nearer.
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• Reginald Barrington

  • Location: Dover
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  14 September 2020     10:20364797
  #6      
  Opposite the junction of the white horse, four or so terraced properties leading to the back of Nandos.
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• Reginald Barrington

  • Location: Dover
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  14 September 2020     10:30364800
  #7      
  On second thoughts the angle is a lot tighter, so the back of building on castle street behind Greggs and the card shop.
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• PatrickS

  • Location: Marine Parade, Dover
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  15 September 2020     09:54364812
  #8      
  A wider view .....
  
  

  

  
  
  ...... and today
  

  

  
  
  

  
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• Button

  • Location: Dover
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  15 September 2020     17:44364840
  #9      
  Thanks for those, Patrick! Funny how that angle makes it look as though Dover is nestling in a curve of hills rather than yer bog-standard river valley.
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• PatrickS

  • Location: Marine Parade, Dover
  • Registered: 19 Sep 2015
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  15 September 2020     22:46364859
  #10      
  The BH photos were taken from the Prince of Wales pier in 2015 (when it was open to the public to enjoy - and very popular it was to).
  
  So, just for ol' times sake - here's a shot of the Pier in the' Good Old Days'
  
  June 2010 - Prince Of Wales Pier (taken from somewhere in the shrubbery on Western Heights)
  

  

  
  
  Now they've even gone and changed the colour of the light in the lighthouse at the end from green to white. Can't fool the ol' Dovorians though.
  
  Nostalgia - a wondrous thing that affords rare opportunity to 'see' again what probably wasn't there in the first place, but was how one would like it to have been. A pier too far .... if only.
• Guest 3706

  • Registered: 21 Jul 2020
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  15 September 2020     23:01364860
  #11      
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  There has been lots of change, so what would you say is the best thing to happen to Dover in the past five years?