Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#1
I noticed today that it is all boarded up, how long has it been closed?
Audere est facere.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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#2
Im afraid that pub has a checkered history Martin..opens and closes every few months. new people take over and try and make a go of it, but it goes right on and closes again. I think the writing is on the wall...it's doomed!
ps: the last effort wasnt so long ago.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#3
took this on my way back from the docks martin, i believe there is a planning application in for a backpackers hostel or similar.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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#4
Another victim of conservative & labour over taxation
Another lost industry
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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#5
better sack then kieth,plenty more to take there places,
Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
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#6
Gosh howard on the ball again with the trusty camera well done.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#7
They did open briefly as a hostel but I understand there were problems meeting the fire regs so they had to close down.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#8
There's a retrospective application in for a hostel there; don't know why it's closed though.
Roger
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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#9
Very topical picture again Howard. I didnt know it was boarded up like that. It looks grim. Just only recently, it seems like recently anyway but time flies in these things, when she was open again and having another try. But there is no real catchment area down there..imagine how empty it would be on a monday or on rainy tuesday nights..maybe one guy with a pint on wednesday. Sadly it is the way of things now, it would be impossible to make a go of it. Our erstwhile reporter Paul McMullan has gone the hostel route with his pub, can never remember the name of the place, but you know the one.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#10
Good picture Howard, the boarding up looks relatively new. Used to be a very busy place years ago with a lot of trade from the Port, mainly lorry drivers, when the bulk of them were British, and Immigration officers who spent a lot of time in there! as Paul B says not an ideal catchment area for a local. Attempts were made a couple of years ago to have live music in there, it alienated the residents and led to a lot of trouble, going to be very difficult for anyone to make a go of it.
The shop that opened in the Flagship does not seem to be doing very well, fair play to them they are often open until midnight but there never seems to be anyone in there shopping, they have put tables and chairs in there for drinks etc but again nobody ever seems to be using them, I wonder how long they will last.
Audere est facere.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#11
didn't know that about the flagship, again not a great catchment area.
paul
the castle is the name of the pub.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#12
there are people useing the old flagship,the catchment area is resonable with the flats and buisness along there.the nearist shop/s apart from the flagship is the bp gararge or one of the shops in the market square.
