The Market Square, Dover, 1920 | Britain from Above

Title The Market Square, Dover, 1920

Image reference EPW000767

Date April 1920

Tags bench street, biggin street, cannon street, chapel place, Church, dover, dover harbour, Harbour, Kent, King Street, Market Square, Queen Street, school, seafront, Seaside, Urban

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Place name Dover

Parish Dover

Administrative area Dover

Country England

Easting/Northing 631931, 141451

NGR TR319415

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The Market Square, Dover, 1920
Places of interest in this photo include: the Market Square, Biggin Street, Cannon Street, King Street, Bench Street, Queen Street, Castle Street, Church of St Mary the Virgin ("St Mary's Church"), Wellington Crescent, and the Seafront.

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John Latter
Monday 16th July
6:07pm
Charles Dickens and the Victorian Camden Crescent, Dover Seafront, Kent, UK

The Victorian Camden Crescent (a Listed Building) was built in 1840 and runs from the Indian Mutiny War Memorial in New Bridge (the buildings behind the tree on the left) to Wellesley Road (by the Gateway Flats, out-of-shot to the right).

The build date of 1840 is at the juncture of two architectual periods: Georgian architecture and Victorian architecture.

A "Blue Plaque" erected by the Dover Society states:

"In 1852 CHARLES DICKENS and his family lodged nearby in Camden Crescent while he wrote parts of Bleak House. The author Wilkie Collins was a regular visitor."

More detailed information at:

http://bit.ly/camdencrescent

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John Latter
Tuesday 24th July
3:57am
New Street (Turne-Againe Lane until c. 1785), Dover, Kent, UK.

An atmospheric photograph of John Allister passing the Golden Wall (he shouldn't cast a shadow) while walking westwards along New Street towards the York Street bypass at 10.30 am on Sunday, March 22nd, 2009.

The doorway in front of John used to be a side entrance to the Metropole Hotel (Metropole Bars; main entrance on Cannon Street, now JD Wetherspoon's The Eight Bells public house, or pub).

John and I both went to St Mary's Church of England Primary School in the late 1950s and early 1960s when it was located in Queen Street.

More detailed information at:

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/20346389

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John Latter
Tuesday 24th July
3:46am
St Mary the Virgin Church engraving by George Wilmot Bonner, Dover, UK.

St Mary the Virgin Church built on site of Roman baths: Norman, maybe Saxon in origin, restored by Victorians.

A Grade II Listed Building located in Cannon Street, Dover, Kent, UK.

Georgian artwork commisioned by St Mary the Virgin Church congregation: completed by 1837 at the latest, probably 1828 at the earliest.

Made by wood-cut engraver G. W. Bonner of London, W. J. Linton an apprentice during this period.

The photo illustrates the "Victorian Chancel of St. Mary the Virgin Parish Church, Church of England, Dover, Kent, UK" article at:

http://bit.ly/Oh5HC7

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John Latter
Sunday 22nd July
4:39am
St Mary's Church of England Primary School 1961-1962 School Football Team, Queen Street, Dover, Kent, UK.

Front row: Unknown - John Allister - Unknown - John Edwards

Middle row: Derek Cole - Unknown - David Thomas - Ian Luff - John Latter

Back row: Nigel Fitz - Kerry Manning - John Dennis - Unknown - Unknown

More info at:

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/2452717

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/85437198865/

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John Latter
Sunday 22nd July
3:43am
Victorian Chancel of St. Mary the Virgin Parish Church, Church of England, Dover, Kent, UK

Dover's Church of St Mary the Virgin from the east showing the Chancel/Apse and surrounding graveyard.

The 'Lady Chapel' is in the right-hand aisle, the Organ in the left.

The graveyard (churchyard, cemetery) was closed for burials in 1854.

A Listed Building built on a Roman and Saxon site.

An urban Dover Victorian architecture and history photo.

More information at:

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/5406336

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John Latter
Sunday 22nd July
3:22am
This building on the corner of Queen Street and Chapel Place was once the Ordnance Arms public house (until 1910, I think). I (John Latter) spent the first three years of my life here from 1951-1954. The glum look on my face in the photo was because I was given nothing to hold on to when first put on the rocking chair so I promptly fell off. For more photos of Dover see http://www.panoramio.com/user/250345

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John Latter
Sunday 15th July
2:54am
Ooops - that should be rocking horse, not rocking chair!

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John Latter
Tuesday 17th July
4:25am

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