Guest 706- Registered: 25 Oct 2010
- Posts: 285
#1
Someone please tell me that it's a special sort of undercoat paint that will covered by a more fitting colour. Please.
Guest 868- Registered: 25 Jan 2013
- Posts: 490
#2
It's Grade 2 listed so worth keeping an eye on and informing the DDC Conservation department if necessary...
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#3
That looks awful.
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Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 9 Nov 2011
- Posts: 2,226
#4
Oh Jan I'm crying , it was my home for two years when I did my nurse training.
Watty
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
#5
I would have a fight in the town go in there get patch up and out again to carry on.There was a Sis/ Shoesme there then and when she was on duty you done what she said,she could sort out anyman.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
#6
Presumably that was in the days when you painted the town red, Vic? Are you at it again?
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
#7
It will never be red,just wait and see what is coming soon.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
#8
I've written to the Conservation Officer at DDC asking him to check this (colour) out.
Roger
DT1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 15 Apr 2008
- Posts: 1,116
#9
It's quite funny that we find this sort of thing awful isn't it? I can't say I like it, but surely it's better than magnolia?
Much of the architectural language of the Georgians and subsequently the Victorians, was an interpretation of classical examples.
Everybody forgets that Greek temples were all quite garish in their colour schemes and not the exposed stone that we see now (or on a grand tour).
The whole process of conservation is a funny old thing, maintaining individual nature, yet suppressing it at the same time. I think that there are bigger crimes - faux sash windows in uPVC with stuck on victorian horns being one. For some reason planners see this sort of embellishment as 'tasteful'. I can never help but think that our arbiters of taste don't quite get it! (always look at their shoes).
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#10
The wife worked there for years in the days when matron ran the hospital
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Guest 743- Registered: 28 Feb 2012
- Posts: 260
#11
I did think to myself it was rather red the other day hehe
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#12
when did it cease to be a hospital?
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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#13
round about 1987
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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#14
To be precise May 1987
then became flats in the 1990's
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