Garage on old mfi site ?

• Guest 699

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  12 June 2011     16:16110001
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  came down castle hill from castle , stopped at traffic lights and where old mfi site was is
  in brickwork the letters === __ a__ ag__ , so guess that means garage at some time ,
  so anyone know the connection on that corner ?
  perhaps the camera experts may be able to post a photo
• Terry Nunn

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  12 June 2011     16:22110008
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  Didn't we have this before? Southern Autos then Thompsons.
  
  Terry
  Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
• Guest 703

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  12 June 2011     16:23110009
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  I think this was answered on a thread a few weeks ago when it was coming down, used to be Southern Autos but there might have been something there before that.
• Guest 703

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  12 June 2011     16:23110010
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  Snap!
• Terry Nunn

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  12 June 2011     16:28110011
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  My 1938 Pikes shows it as Southern Autos even then, telephone number Dover 89.
  
  Terry
  Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
• Guest 649

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  12 June 2011     17:12110022
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  yes you are both right I had a car in the 1950s and my repairs were done there and a mate of mine ended up being the forman.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  12 June 2011     17:34110025
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  not the welding though vic, you would have done that yourself.
• Guest 649

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  12 June 2011     18:54110038
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  I was not a welder then I was in the Army in the band.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  13 June 2011     16:09110120
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  this is what ron referred to in the original post.
  
  

  
• Guest 699

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  13 June 2011     17:55110132
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  thanks howard , thats the one
  you can tell i do the odd crossword !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Guest 703

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  13 June 2011     19:23110147
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  Vic has been promising us some big UKIP news soon - perhaps it's going to be redone as Farage and be their new headquarters
• howard mcsweeney1

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  13 June 2011     19:39110151
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  sounds like mr newsam has hit on something here, maybe mr matcham could confirm whether the assumption is true.
• Guest 698

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  13 June 2011     19:48110152
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  Actually Vic told me on Saturday he was making Blakes the UKIP Dover HQ. Only 200 yards down the road.......
  I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson