Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,321
#101
Well, I am 81!
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Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,829
#102
Looked quite a big business in its day.I can only remember them doing removals and just before they shut i,m sure they was selling cycles and mopeds.Used to call in the shop with my mates,we was all around 16 at the time,we all liked to look but had little money to buy.
Andy B- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,829
#103
Bottom of Tower Hamlets rd onto the High st there was Deans shoe repairers,Corner house cafe which was very popular,now a micropub,on the other side of the road was the Grocers which is now a chemist and on the site of High st surgery was an indian restaurant and a type of second hand shop which i remember sold record players,guitars,radios etc.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,599
#104
So, with the WH Smith news, I remember it being Lavells before that.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/38017947@N05/3498123671
Back to my childhood, it was an indoor market I think?
Paul Gee- Registered: 30 Oct 2016
- Posts: 23
#105
And before all that it was George Hatton’s a quite large harbadashers shop. There was another one up London Road called Millin’s. I think both shops had a pulley system. When you paid it took your money to the cashier.
Edward Figg- Location: Australia
- Registered: 7 Jan 2023
- Posts: 21
#106
Who remembers Orms bookshop in Last Lane?
Andy B- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,829
#107
I dont remember that one,Denis weaver in the market sq is the only bookshop i can think of.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#108
Andy B wrote:I dont remember that one,Denis weaver in the market sq is the only bookshop i can think of.
Who was the one part way up Castle Street, possibly past or near the coal merchant office, I only vaguely remember a bookshop being up there.
I used Dennis Weaver a lot when my children were little, it was a shame when they closed.
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Andy B- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,829
#109
The shop which was half way on Castle st,corner of Russel st was also Denis Weavers.It was more of an office supplies shop,where the market sq shop was books,stationary,craft etc,and then in Bench st was Geerings which was also an office supplies and stationarys shop.That one i think shut around mid 80s??
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Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,321
#110
Denis Weaver in Castle Street (corner of Russell Street) was previously called Giraud's They used to do my parent's stationery.
Terry
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