Blue Plaques

4. Bronze Age Boat

4. Bronze Age Boat

The fourth of the original 10 Dover Society Millennium Plaques and was unveiled on Monday 17th April 2000 [the second of two that day]. It is situated above the entrance to the underpass as you...

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5. Zeebrugge Raid

5. Zeebrugge Raid

The fifth of the original 10 Dover Society Millennium Plaques was unveiled in October 2000 [the first of two that day]. It is situated on the wall of the Old Market Hall, now the Dover Museum in the...

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6. William Burgess

6. William Burgess

This plaque, the sixth in the Millennium series, can be found, above eye level, at the corner of Stembrook and Castle Street and was unveiled in October 2000 [the second that day] It recognises,...

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7. Charles Dickens

7. Charles Dickens

The Plaque at Camden Crescent This plaque, the seventh in the millennium series, can be found, on the wall, along Camden Crescent at number 17 and was unveiled in December 2000 [one of three...

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9. The Lord Warden Hotel

9. The Lord Warden Hotel

This plaque was installed in December 2000 The LORD WARDEN HOTEL was opened in1853 on part of the site purchased ten years previously by the South-Eastern Railway Company. The company bought the...

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10. The Dover Gallows

10. The Dover Gallows

The 10th of the Millennium plaques is at the Eagle Hotel on the corner of Tower Hamlets Road and London Road and was unveiled in September 2002. The gallows were sited close to the corner...

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11. Thomas Pattenden

11. Thomas Pattenden

Thomas Pattenden was born in Dover in 1748 and died there in 1819            Derek Leach with Kathleen and Bob Hollinsbee The following article appeared in the Dover Society Newsletter No. 69 pages...

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12. Thomas Tallis (1505-1585)

12. Thomas Tallis (1505-1585)

The plaque to Thomas Tallis was unveiled by Dover College headmaster Gerry Holden on 7th March 2014. The Society thanks builder John Hill who fixed it without charge. Mr Holden gave a brief history...

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13. River Tram Crash

13. River Tram Crash

  This plaque was unveiled on 29th January 2015 The plaque is situated on the wall of the northern parapet of the of the River Dour bridge at the bottom of the second bend of the incline on...

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17. Castle Hill House

17. Castle Hill House

Castle Hill House At 4pm on Sunday 11th September 2022 at Castle Hill House a short ceremony took place to unveil a our latest blue plaque to date, in recognition of the role, over the years, that...

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18. Lorna Bomford

18. Lorna Bomford

Latest Dover Society Plaque UnveiledMilestone House, Temple Ewell, DoverReported by Alan Lee Lorna Bomford 1933 At 2pm on Monday 26th June 2023 a small group of people gathered, including three...

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