Guest 782- Registered: 4 Oct 2012
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#1
Scaffold down. Has anyone seen the revelation that this building is yet? I guess it will take a few days to get used to, but golly gosh, what a transformation.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#2
we have been following the renovation work with great interest, hopefully someone will put a picture or 2 of the result here.
http://www.dover.uk.com/forums/dover-forum/number-10Guest 706- Registered: 25 Oct 2010
- Posts: 285
#3
I thought that was the old Labour Exchange. I could be wrong though
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#4
i have always been told that it was a job centre in a previous life.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#5
It's a unique building, and should become an emblem of Dover Town.
With this building we could promote Dover, and possibly build more like it, a new -rediscovered- style, buildings people would stop and stare at.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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#6
Job Centres used to be called the Labour Exchange when I was young so I suppose you could both be right. I am sure it was one or the other when I first moved to Dover in the mid 1960s.
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Guest 792- Registered: 16 Oct 2012
- Posts: 3
#7
Has it been renovated for a reason? (Other than to smarten it up)
New shop perhaps?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#8
my understanding is that the sandilands dental people have bought it to convert into high quality flats mike.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#9
Yes it is the old job centre and when I left school I did go in there at times,but always found my own jobs till I went in the army,never out of work but it was not like today there were always lots of jobs in Dover,you could walk out of one into a new one within the hour,this was in the 1950s and again when I came out of the army in 1964 could still get work easy.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#10
Originally the GPO
and site of the Flying Horse Tavern
http://www.dover-kent.com/Flying-Horse-Tavern.htmlBeen nice knowing you :)
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#11
Labour exchange/ job centre, same thing surely?
Audere est facere.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#12
Great photo Paul.
I look forward to seeing it in all its exposed glory.
Roger
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#13
General Post Office something different
Presumably it moved from here to the new building that was on the site where Peacocks now is in around 1914
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 782- Registered: 4 Oct 2012
- Posts: 357
#14
If you stand back and look, you will see evidence that it was a post office, but yes before the German fellow used it to further the porn industry it was the job centre.
Richard Sandilands intends to live there, which might help to explain why he is giving it such close attention. There are a couple of flats at the back though. Brave man, it was in a terrible state.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
#15
Labour exchange/ jobcentre an emblem of Dover Town Alex? I hope not, sincerely.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
#16
Dovers number 10,great to see it back as it was in the 1950s,+ there were one or two rats running round the old site so they would have gone to.
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,321
#17
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#18
Much better - be nice to see next door returned to some of it's former glory too with the leaded windows and shopfront uncovered
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#19
Wondering if that canopy in #10 is still recessed ??
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
#20
An incredible improvement - well done Sandilands.
Now that's a building Dover should be proud of.
Roger
