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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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no ted - not that side of the road.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i was standing outside the accommodation shop, now still in dover.
Guest 676- Registered: 1 Jul 2008
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stood at the same place as #3448, looking at South Road
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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correct stewart, where was i standing when i took this one?
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Right beside Derek Beach's kitchen extension in Taswell St.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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it was taswell street will have to take your word on the rest peter, now still in dover.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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a bit surprised that one of the western heights regulars has not got this one .
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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It's the severed end of Archcliffe Gate on South Military Road...
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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no idea what it was/is called paul, you may well be right.
can you give me an exact location?
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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St Martins Battery Carpark
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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correct paul - thanks for that photo i had no idea that there had been such an interesting looking building there.
what happened to it and when?
meanwhile where was i standing when i took this one?
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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Looks like Astor School Field on Astor Avenue.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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correct john, where exactly was this taken from?
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Archcliffe Gate built in the 1860s and demolished in the 1960s, the reason....
...to resolve Dover's unemployment problem as it had hit 500 people (!!) and it was going to be used to create a load of industrial units up there, so they demolished the gatehouse to make the road wider
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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hard to believe that a piece of our history was demolished for such a flimsy reason, must have been plenty of brownfield sites that could have been used.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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It all looked a lot better in the 1950s up there.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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It was still in military hands in the 1950s - sadly Victorian architecture wasn't really the flavour of the times. The Heights would have been considered brownfield and ripe for development....
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#3474 you werer on the site of the Cause is Altered
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i recently heard that there was a pub of that name in dover years ago, but do not know where it was.
