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• Guest 649

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  2 February 2011     18:4791197
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  There was also a veg shop in New Bridge .
• Guest 651

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  2 February 2011     18:4991198
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  Presumably this Chemist ?
  
  

  
  Been nice knowing you :)
• Guest 657

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  2 February 2011     21:3391227
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  Some great ones there
  www.facebook.com/jeaneheadstonehunter
• Guest 649

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  2 February 2011     21:5591229
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  That could be my grandad talking there.
• Terry Nunn

  • Location: London Road, Dover
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  3 February 2011     09:4791268
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  Why, did you inherit his walking stick Vic? You must have recognized it.
  
  Terry
  Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
• Guest 649

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  3 February 2011     17:3591359
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  You are right Terry You have a good eye for detail
• Guest 700

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  3 February 2011     18:4491369
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  omitted detail in my post No.18 on advert for baldness:
  (Dover Observer 30 May 1896)
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• Guest 700

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  3 February 2011     18:5191372
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  (Dover Observer 16 May 1896)
  [URL]

  

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  1930s picture: (on corner of Snargate St and Northampton St)
  [URL]

  

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• Guest 702

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  6 February 2011     11:0791642
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  I have recently acquired another old bottle, the type with a glass marble in. Does anyone know where this company would have been?
  
  S.RELMS
  Soda Water Manufacturer
  Established 1836
  Dover
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• Guest 649

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  6 February 2011     11:2491644
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  Yes it was down by the round about as you over the Bridge to the cruise Terminal the also made the drink Bing still about today.
• Guest 700

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  6 February 2011     18:3491699
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  From Sinnock directory 1875:
  
  

  
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• Guest 700

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  6 February 2011     18:3991700
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  also from Sinnock & Co. directory of 1875:
  
  

  
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• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
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  6 February 2011     19:2291710
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  only just vic,looks like the folkestone manufactures are on the the sippery slide down hill fast.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  6 February 2011     19:2691712
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  is that silver spring that you refer to brian?
• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
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  6 February 2011     19:2991714
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  howard,it very well could be,but its not certain whats going on there.
• Guest 702

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  6 February 2011     22:2491740
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  Thanks Kath and Vic.
  www.kenrbaker.co.uk - Photo Gallery
• Guest 700

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  11 February 2011     16:1392319
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  Dover Telegraph advt 22 May 1912:
  
  

  
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• Guest 700

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  13 February 2011     12:3092482
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  Dover Telegraph 10 July 1912:
  
  

  
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• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  13 February 2011     15:5592510
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  they describe the sale as cheap building plots, then say that houses are already there.
• Guest 700

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  13 February 2011     17:4192518
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  Were they selling plots and houses already up I wonder ?
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