Admiralty Pier Dover

 

 

Dover promenade pier 1927


Dover promenade pier 1927 with fishing boat in trouble.

 

 

Admiralty Pier Dover: with early train


Admiralty Pier Dover: with early train

 

 

Admiralty Pier Dover


Admiralty Pier Dover:

“Blue gum tree timbers were brought all the way from Dover in Tasmania to build the temporary staging for the Admiralty Pier”

 

 

The old Pier School pupils and teachers c.1930s, a postcard by George Packham.


The Pier at Dover is under repair; this has long wanted it, not only on the principle of real utility but to give foreigners on their first landing in this island a proper idea of our wealth and greatness. A first impression operates materially. Nothing should be omitted which can by any means make it.


(Kentish Gazette 12 - 15 August 1788, page 2)