Dover Kent UK
History of Dover Garages
Blenheim Square
Pier Motor Garage
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Currently I do not have evidence of the exact position, but looking at the 1871 map and the photo (from JE Gilham's Collection) along with subsequent entries in Pikes directories, The Garage may well have been in the area that was previously marked as "Workshop" (next to St John's Church), this building shows a large door area compared to the others.
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1927 Pikes - Blenham Square - Pier Motor garage, King, F. W.
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6 February 1930? (DE) - Thomas Wright, landlord of the "Rose and Crown", Clarence place said that he had a motor garage at Blenheim Square, from which a number of tools had been stolen.
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9 September 1934 (DE) - Housing Acts 1925 and 1930. Seven Star Street Compulsory Purchase Order 1934. Notice is hereby given the Minister of Health in pursuance of the powers vested in him by the Housing Acts 1925 and 1930, on the 22nd day of August 1934, confirmed with modifications an order submitted to him by Alderman Burgess of the Borough of Dover (thereinafter called the Council), authorising the Council to purchase compulsorily for the purposes of Part III of the Housing Act 1925 the lands described in the schedule hereto.
A copy of the confirmed order and of the map referred to therein has been deposited at Brook House, Dover and may be seen at all reasonable hours.
The Order will become operative at the expiration of six weeks from the date of this advertisement, but if proceedings in the High Court are instituted within that period by an aggrieved person desirous of questioning the validity of the Order, the Court may, if satisfied that the Order is not within the powers of the Act or that the interests of the applicant have been substantially prejudiced by any requirement of the Act not having been complied with, squash the Order either generally or in so far as it affects any property of the applicant.
SCHEDULE - Nos 4,5,6 and 8 Seven Star Street.
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The Sailors Home and the Mineral Water Factory (both derelict), Blenheim Square,
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Nos 1 (Garage) and 2, Middle Row,
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Nos 10 ands 11 Council House Street
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Vacant lands and private passages situate between the above and mentioned premises and the Southern Railway line from Folkestone to Dover Priory Station, and between Council House Street and Seven Star Street.
Dated seventh day of September 1934. R.E. Knocker, Town Clerk.