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- A7431347
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- Mr Thomas Southwell, Burwill and Cocking Families
- Location of story:听
- Athol Terrace & Burlington Hotel, Dover
- Article ID:听
- A4431197
- Contributed on:听
- 11 July 2005
鈥淭his story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War site by Terry Cleaver of 大象传媒 Kent and has been added to the website on behalf of Mr Thomas Southwell with his permission and they fully understands the site鈥檚 terms and conditions.鈥
I was a telegram boy based at the G.P.O in Biggin Street, Dover and remember the Burlington Hotel well , often having to take telegrams there . Dover had plenty of Burwills and another Name was the Cockings, one living I believe at 38 West Gate, I was living at 42. The item in front of 1 Athol Terrace was a cross- channel shell and that I recall vividly for I had to dive into the Doorway of no.1 and a piece of the shrapnel was found about 9 inches from my head had it not been for the sloping concrete apron that ran the length of Athol Terrace it might have been different . The people of the house I cannot recollect their name now But Mr.? had two sons , he at the time was in an organistion called the Campaigners. At that time there was a paper shop roughly about No. 9 Athol Terrace and if my memory serves me correctly the name of the owner was Stamp. I used to sleep in the cave at the end of the terrace, at the time when a part of it was allocated to the Naval Sick Bay which was located at the corner on the front opposite the entrance to what was then the Eastern Arm Dockyard. I recall that same dockyard being dive bombed by Stuka's and the Supply ship "War Sepoy" getting Hit . As a messenger delievering a telegram to one of the Drifters in the dockyard being on the bridge between two machine guns firing at a Messershmit downing a barrage balloon. As an afterthought sometime there was an Barrage Balloon crew billetted in 1 Athol Terrace, but I could be wrong on that point.
The Burlington Hotel was bombed in 1941 and demolished in 1949.
Thomas Southwell allowed myself to add the above accounts of life in Athol Terrace and the Burlington Hotel after he emailed me through my own website and I myself explained about the 大象传媒 People's War Project.
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