Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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As much as I can make out...
(PA)SSENGER BOO(KING)
(FO)RWARD
CALLI
AMERICA
CANADA
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
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Its on the front of a house on Beaconsfield Road - well thats what the map says - you know the bit that runs alongside but raised up above London Road - any way this house is up near the TA centre
Anyway it appears to say
Passenger Bookings
and
Forward
_as_li_
America
and
Canada
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Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Yes, I know it well. I only wish I'd photographed years ago when it was less washed out.
Picking up on Ross's point, the fact that all on-line maps call Buckland Terrace (part of London Road) Beaconsfield Road is beyond me. It plays havoc with deliveries. I did report it to Multimap once to no avail.
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Yeh, intrigued why it is there as it is a house rather than a shop? My directories don't give any clues
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Obviously stuff like this abounds in high streets. A little while ago our council thought-up a money making wheeze. They would charge a fee to shops for advertising outside their businesses and letters went back and forth between the council and one shop owner who had an 'ancient' sign like this on his open gable-end. He was being told to paint it out or pay up, good sense finally prevailed.
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Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Several houses along here (and the High Street) doubled as offices for insurance agents. When we bought ours, the estate agent, Ronald E Handley, told us that ours was once the Registrar's office for Hougham! I've never seen any evidence for this in directories however.
Terry
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Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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These wall signs are intriguing. A year or more ago, Martyn Webster sent pictures of them to me, and he said:
"Between about 1889-1893 my great grandfather,Alfred William Webster,and his family lived at 266 London Road,Dover.I believe they must have rented the house.
"I went to look at the exterior last Sunday morning and attach some photos.
"What intrigues me is that above and either side of the front door are two shield painted advertisements that appear to be advertising shipping services to north America and Canada.
They are not wholly legible.
"Do either of you have any idea to what they relate and what they actually say?
"I have tried looking at the censuses but no 266 is not easily identifiable as it appears to be recorded as a terrace.The house is situated on the raised part of London Road which is just before where the
old Odeon cinema used to be.
"I wondered if it might have been an insurance company or something or alternatively there was a connexion with Harry Smith,fly proprietor of Beach Street,who used to ply his carriages up and down the
town to the pier - he himself lived at 214 London Road and his wife Caroline Smith (nee Boorn) was a widow in residence there for very many years until 1939 when she must have been nearly 80 - I
cannot trace her death - she is not included on her husband's headstone at St Mary's cemetery-I wonder if she evacuated from Dover in 1940,was killed in the bombing and shelling or was buried without
a headstone inscription for some reason.
"Harry Smith was my great grandmother's (Harriet Webster nee Smith) brother."
This was the best I could do with them -
Difficult to read! I have tried highlighting the lettters but without much succss. On the first picture I got:
PASSENGER BOOK(INGS?)
and
O D W
CALFA? -OBWA
AMERICA
CANADA
on the second picture:
(something): OFFICE
large letters indistinct
lower down -ON (London?) STEAMER
There should be a mention of this business in one of the directories...
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Lincolnshire Born and Bred
Guest 683- Registered: 11 Feb 2009
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The roof lettering of the Diamond Hotel is also fading. Would be a shame to lose these.
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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How interesting. These two shields clearly show the house to have been used by Shipping Agents booking passengers and freight for services to, inter alia, America and Canada. One would hazard that the most likely time period would be from the turn of the twentieth century up to the outbreak of WW2 during which time various transatlantic liner companies included Dover as a port of call.
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