Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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This one needs some input from knowledgible locals - any ideas where this might be ?
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Around the Clarendons ? - when people cared about their back gardens.
Roger
What a beautiful picture!
I think it could be the Norman St Saxon St area looking at the houses in the background
Terry Nunn
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With you on that Sarah. The roofs with the dormer windows could be the north side of Norman Street so that the garden would be in Effingham Crescent.
I did initially think London Road, just down from me, the style is right but no additional gardens.
Terry
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Guest 652- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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not the Clarendons, no dormers in Clarendon, only Folkestone Road
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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No Terry - from my position in Effingham Crescent I don't think so.
The dormers look wrong and the walls are all flint not brick as in the picture.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i think folkestone road, stunning garden.
Jan Higgins
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Looking at the background houses, they look slightly higher than that lovely garden so the house has to be ninety degrees to a gentle hill not a steep one, if you know what I mean
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Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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Just goes to prove I'm not always right Barry!
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Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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What a wonderful photo.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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It is on the lefthand side as you go up Folkstone Rd about where Webbs Hotel was.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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Do you know that it's Dover, Paul?
I'm sure I have seen this before, will show it to Bob.
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Kath - I'll check the original when I get home, but I am sure that it's a Dover photographer.
Looks like they are in mourning dress ?
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Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Yes does appear to be mourning dress.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I'll do a closeup scan later and see what other details I can see
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Brian Dixon
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the elm houses near the cause is alterd pub.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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Very tall houses, possibly late Victorian? or earlier maybe?
Bob not sure but will think about it.
Many people wore black, even if not in mourning ?? in those days??
Close-ups may help, wonder if was a Dover personality?
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Some of the garden walls in norman street are brick. My eyesight isn't good enough on a mobile to see much detail re the building construction. Some of the norman street gardens are raisef so photos are taken at an angle so to speak. But I bow to the others who know the lay out better than me. I will be fascinated by the answer though
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Is it Roger and Jean in the garden of their old guest house on Flk Rd
Marek
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