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Dover, Kent
Dover maps
Historic maps of Dover and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Dover maps
Historic map of Dover
Illustrated Victorian map of Kent
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Dover books
Displaying 3 of 15 books about Dover and the local area. View all Dover books
Kent Revisited Photographic Memories
Paperback
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Around the Kent Coast
Paperback
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Cinque Ports and theTwo Ancient Towns Photographic Memories
Paperback
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8 Dover photos appear in 3 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Dover
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I can look back to sunny days and my uncle helping us to collect fools gold at St Margaret at Cliff. Auntie Alice would pack up a picnic and we would take a ride in the car (I can't remember what type) and we would sit down on the beach, I think it was cobbles, I don't remember any sand.... [more]
Shared on 16 January 2009
My grandparents, Jabez Smith and Kate his wife owned the post office in Coombe Valley Road, formerly Union Road, before and during the war. Their daughter Rose Moss (my Mother) ran it from the age of sixteen. They also owned and lived in The Bungalow just a half a mile east of St Radiguns Abbey ruins. Apparently it is still there... [more]
Shared on 26 March 2008
Robert William Wells (Shop keeper)
I understand my grand father workedin,orpossibly owned a fishmongers and or grocers aroundabout 1900
can anyone confirm this please and where was it.
Was it his own shop or was he an employee
Does it still stand ,do any photos exist of it
Thankyou
John Wells
Shared on 24 December 2007
This was the in place when I was 18
I remember this as being the place to go when we were out for the evening. We used to drink vodka and lime and think we were really cool. It used to get packed out and was really modern and trendy in it's day.
Shared on 23 December 2007
Kent memories
Relations of John Wraite & Mary Post
In 1841 John & Mary Wraight's son William married Sarah Curling Baker the daughter of Thomas Baker & Eleanor Hunt from St Margarets at Cliffe. Her stepsister, Eleanor Hunt's daughter by her first marriage to William Marsh, Mrs Eleanor Raynor lived at Frith Farm Guston in 1851 with her husband, baliff Henry Rayner from Shepherdswell, she looked after their baby boy... [more]
Shared on 24 December 2009
My paternal grandfather was born in West Hougham in 1864. His name was Harry Brigham Barton. His father was a wheelwright and lived it West Hougham. His name was Thomas Skinner Barton.
Shared on 17 December 2008
I was born at Yew Tree Cottage Lower Eythorne, opposite the White Horse pub in 1945, and left the village when I was 21.
I remember the fresh fish van, the cricket pitch behind the pub in Upper Eythorne, steamrollers, bubbles in the tar during the summer, collecting car numbers, the number 88 bus to Dover, Sunday School, Elvington School when... [more]
Shared on 09 March 2010
I moved to Portland Terrace in Ripple with my mum, dad and sister when I was about 6. (We moved in to deal when I was 16.) I went to Ripple Primary School. My dad worked behind the bar in the Plough pub for a while. My mum worked at Ripple Vale School. They were the best days ever, I want... [more]
Shared on 14 May 2009
Extracts From Dover & Kent books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Dover, inspired by Frith photos.
The castle at Dover was built between 1181 and 1187 by Henry II. A Roman stone lighthouse, the Pharos, stands in the castle grounds near the Saxon church of St Mary in Castro. Also within the grounds are the underground passages and caves used for shelter and military purposes during the last war.
This is an extract from Around the Kent Coast.
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This picture shifts the scene down to the beach; we are looking east to the castle and the chalk cliffs. Pleasure boats are in evidence, and holidaymakers are clearly enjoying a day in the Victorian sunshine.
This is an extract from Kent Photographic Memories.
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Kent Revisited Photographic Memories
Standing majestically atop the White Cliffs, this fortress is known as the 'guardian of the gateway to England'. It was an important Iron Age site, and the Anglo-Saxons built the original structure. The hill, or motte, beneath was of Norman origin, and Henry III used the castle as a garrison. Its underground tunnel network played an essential part in the Second... [more]
This is an extract from Kent Revisited Photographic Memories.
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