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A controversial plan in 1913:
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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fascinating stuff, nothing ever really changes just the personnel.
that last one reminded me of the terminal 2 issue.
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This was the meeting organised to protest about the newly planned harbour taking over the seafront etc:
The protest was successful, see No.3 above.
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In its original form, the T2 is supposed to take up a substantial part of the harbour, including a large stretch of the sandy beach. However, most of the other areas of beach are inaccessible other than at very low tide.
Maybe a mass meeting on the beach might change that, and we could print off a few of those 1913 posters and solemnly hand them over to DHB.
On that subject, why are there so many cement slabs and rusty iron fences running down from the promenade into the sea on the eastern areas of our beach?
Would it be feasible to cover these concrete slabs with shingle and sand and increase the extension of accessible beach?
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Alex, I think you are talking about the groynes which are specifically designed to prevent loss of the beach by stopping the circulating currents in the harbour from washing the sand and shingle away.
It would appear most unlikely that T2 will ever materialise. If it does, a small part of the beach will be taken for the landward end of the new marina, which would probably actually be rather attractive. More to the point, the whole of the Western Docks, apart from the Wellington Dock and the Admiralty Pier cruise berths, would be filled in and built over. This would mean the loss of the attractive yachts and other small vessels in the Granville Dock and Tidal Basin and just another endless expanse of trucks and tarmac.
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This was part of the proposed development in the harbour
fromDover Times 14 Aug 1913:
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The plan above was one drawn up in 1870 and never saw the light of day. The proposal was to extend the port out to the west along Shakespeare Beach. The Admiralty Pier is at the top, with the Lord Warden Hotel and the Dover Town terminus of the South Eastern Railway at its base. Archcliffe Fort is on the left with a new covered train ferry berth to its right, shielded by a new pier at the bottom of the picture. One of innumerable plans for Dover Harbour over the years which have never come to fruition.
I assume they were referring back to it in the Dover Times of 1913, in the context of the extraordinary proposal to build new docks along the seafront.
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Thanks Ed for this information.
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From Dover Times, 17 July 1913:
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the kings hall seems to have a great history, very attractive building.
last i heard was that the present owner was selling up due to ill health.
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Different Kings Hall Howard - this was the original name for the Gaumont which is now Gala Bingo
The current Kings Hall was formerly the Buckland Wesleyan Chapel
Been nice knowing you :)
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Sorry - I had a senior moment and posted the Kings Hall info on the wrong subject !! Slapped wrists !!
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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coming back to me now paul, it has been mentioned on here before about the "kings" being a former chapel.
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