howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#1
always wondered where this led/leads to?
coming down from the castle it is just before laureston place.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#2
It's the private gardens to Victoria Park (I am sure Ed has a photo!!), there was also a lodge there but I am yet to find a picture of it...
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#3
That is the gate into the park that belongs to the houses at Victoria Park it is not open to the public and you get into from the back gardens of the house, When I lived in a flat up there I was out there alot it is nice and they keep it that way
or did do when I was up there
Judith Roberts- Registered: 15 May 2012
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#4
Access to the parkland is one of the reasons we recently bought a ground floor flat in Victoria Park to renovate and use as a holiday flat. It is a lovely space maintained by a few dedicated residents. The back of the crescent is so beautiful compared to the front elevation and it is best seen from the parkland at the back.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#5
would be nice to see some photos of this hidden beauty judith, ed has been reticent to post some of his.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#6
The best I have from my flight over !
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#7
Quite good on Bing maps too:
http://binged.it/SXpC9rBeen nice knowing you :)
Judith Roberts- Registered: 15 May 2012
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#8
I will try and get some photos next weekend.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#9
The Bing maps are indeed quite good Paul.
A friend of ours lives in Laureston Place and those trees at the bottom of the gardens of Viccy Park are too big and need cutting back as the sun never shines in Laureston Place - whatever the weather.
Although they look great in a photo, they have been allowed to grow too big. If just one of them blew over in a storm, incredible damage would be caused.
Roger
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#10
Great photo you can see my old ground floorf flat no10, it was very nice to ,I was on my own then.There was a tunnel leading up to the Castle in the front yard but is was bricked up.and the flat was so big great fire place to,still had the calling bells to all upstairs room in the hallway,and the best thing was the dumb waiter,(Not me)And I would pull myself up in it and hear what they was saying about me great fun.
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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#11
The gate in #1 gives access to paths leading up through the woods to the park running along the front of the gardens for each individual house in Victoria Park. I have had to climb over it a couple of times for lost keys and a lost cat when my neighbours in the lower flat were out, you can only access the grounds from the lower floor.
Re post #9, here is a fallen tree in 2007, you can see Laureston Place in the background. This is the only one I have ever known to fall down, and it was after a storm. Sorry to hear that those living there are in the shade but these trees are magnificent and they will be felled over my dead body!
The park with a bit of mowing going on.
The view from our first floor flat with the Western Heights in the background. Sorry about Henrietta the goose, and the scaffolding, but I am scrabbling around a bit for photos.
Victoria Park in Victorian times.
Alec Sheldon
- Location: Dover
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#12
I lodged at 21 Victoria Park for a few years in the early 70's. A mate of mine also lodged there right at the top in the old servants quarters and the calling bells were still there as mentioned by Vic.
Jeffrey Archer once lodged there as well when he was a master at Dover College, before my time though. My old landlady told me a few stories about Jeffrey.
Judith Roberts- Registered: 15 May 2012
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#13
Love the photo of Victoria Park in Victorian times, where did you find it? Interesting that all the gardens seem to have steps down to the grassed area whereas now only a few sets of steps remain. The blinds are a good idea.
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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#14
Hi Judith. Here is an expanded version. No idea where I acquired them from, have been on my hard drive for donkeys years.
All the gardens are individualistic today unlike the regimented conformity and row of identical steps seen in the photos, as would have befitted accommodation for military officers.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#15
That looks such a beautiful terrace Ed. thanks for the photos.
I appreciate what you say about the trees and agree that they are quite magnificent, but if you lived in Laureston Place, you would use a different word.
Obviously depends what side of the fence (in this case trees) you are.
Roger
Judith Roberts- Registered: 15 May 2012
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#16
The larger version is even better, thank you for sharing it. I have always loved the Victoria Park crescent and we are really looking forward to being able to spend time in our flat. There is a lot of work to do before we will be able to relax and enjoy our bit of garden and access to the park.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#17
From what I can tell the trees have been there and that dense for at least 113 years !!
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#18
They can't have been that big and that dense for that long Paul.
It matters not to me that the trees stay as they are, but as I said in my first, they are not thought of quite so highly in Laureston Place.
Roger
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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#19
Roger, am back on my ship for my two weeks duty and have just spoken to one of our stewards, Sean, who has lived in Laureston Place for thirty years. He says he doesn't understand the above as he gets plenty of sunlight and grows plants in flowerpots on the windowsills facing the road.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#20
Thanks Ed.
I know people who live there and the road is almost always shaded; there is a short period where (if the sun is out) the road does get some sunshine.
Roger
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