Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
This is really bugging me !!
I am sure there was something here at the corner of Laureston Place and Castle Hill - it may have been a fountain, but there isn't something there now. Don't know if I am making it up as I can't find a picture...
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#2
Judging by the brick-work, it seems to have been built like that from the start.
The difference in colour may be due to the recent long-time presence of a bush in front of the wall.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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#3
Used to be an air raid shelter now blocked off after a survey in the fifties considered it to be unsafe.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#4
The shelter (I believe) was further up the road
There are the remains of a triange of three metal stumps in the centre that I think held something and a drain at the bottom? I think it was a drinking fountain
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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#5
Yes you could be right there. I thought it might be the entrance to the shelter because I believe there were two entrances or one for an exit. Interesting question. Shame google street view wasn't around seventy years ago.
Damn, this means a trawl of the internet now to resolve this one.
I've a question. On the corner of Leyburne road, next to what used to be the YMCA, YMCAyaaa, is a Victorian or Edwardian building. Was it a small school or convent or something connected with the Church?
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#6
I have friends in Laureston Place, I'll ask if they know.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#7
i believe the one philip refers to was a convent at one time.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#8
Not easy to see as the picture is taken head-on, but does the brickwork at the centre not protrude more as it goes up, is capped by a slab and the top few courses of the wall continue as normal?
There may have an ancient tree behind the wall the growth of which is accommodated at this point in the wall. What lies behind?
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