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Monument details

Summary

Dovers electricity company was established within Dover on Park Street in 1894. It is first visible on the Second Edition OS map (1897-1900) of Dover. The building is also visisble on aerial photographs of the town up until 1960, by the time the 1990 photographs were taken the building had been demolished.(location accurate to the nearest 10m based on available information)

Monument Types

• ELECTRICITY GENERATING HALL (Post Medieval to Modern - 1894 AD to 1960 AD?)

Full description

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Dovers electricity company was established within Dover on Park Street in 1894. It is first visible on the Second Edition OS map (1897-1900) of Dover. The building is also visisble on aerial photographs of the town up until 1960, by the time the 1990 photographs were taken the building had been demolished. (1-3)

<1> Landmark, Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 1st edition 1862-1875): Landmark Epoch 1 (Map). SKE30964.

<2> J. Bavington Jones, 1907, Dover; A Perambulation of the Town, Port and Fortress. (Monograph). SKE32120.

<3> Lorraine Sencicle, 2013, The Dover Historian - Brook House – the Infamous Demolition (Website). SKE51697.

<3> Lorraine Sencicle, 2016, The Dover Historian - East Kent Road Car Company and Dover (Website). SKE51696.

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