From the Dover Express and East Kent Intelligencer, 31 October, 1879. Price 1d.

CLARENDON STREET

To the Editor of the Dover Express.

Sir, - it is high time something was done to improve the approach to this street by way of the "Engineer" public-house. At present it is inaccessible after a shower of rain by foot passengers having regard for a clean appearance, while as for getting a perambulator  into the Folkestone Road it is quite out of the question. The street itself is nearly as bad. Notwithstanding the heavy wear to which the road has been subjected during the last year or two, I believe I am correct in stating that nothing has ever been done to it in the way of repairs, and the impression is that nothing will be done until the street is completed. As this cannot be for many months to come, residents are beginning to contemplate whether with considerable dismay the prospect before them when the winter has finally set in.

Being of opinion that this is the state of things which ought not to exist in relation to a thoroughfare used by some hundreds of inhabitants, is the apology for troubling you - or your obedient servant,

A SUFFERER.

Dover, October 1879.

From the Dover Express and East Kent Intelligencer, 21 November, 1879. Price 1d.

CLARENDON STREET

To the Editor of the Dover Express.

Dear Sir, - With your indulgence I beg again to direct attention to the dreadful condition of the approach to this street. It is not only inaccessible with any degree of comfort, but is absolutely  dangerous at night, the deep ruts and the absence of any lamp making it difficult to get a safe footing. Whether the buildings in connection with the road are to be finished within a month or within a year, the present convenience of the inhabitants ought no longer be ignored.

By and bye someone may slip down and break a limb, and then everyone will be asking why the road is not allowed to remain in so a dangerous condition.

is it because the population of the Clarendon Estate do not belong to the "Upper Pen?"

Thanking you for the favour of publication,

I remain, dear sir,

Your obedient servant,

A SUFFERER.

Dover, November, 1879.

From the Dover Express and East Kent Intelligencer, 12 December, 1879. Price 1d.

CLARENDON STREET

To the Editor of the Dover Express.

Dear Sir, - Will you kindly allow me one more trespass upon your indulgences with the object of representing another very real grievance which the residents of this street have to prefer; and not the resident only, but every person having business or other connections with the street. It regards the numbering of the houses. It seems that instead of being number consecutively from the buildings first erected, several batches of houses are numbered according to the whim of the owners, and thus we have a chaos of numbers which - like Milton's excess of light - serve rather to obscure than to guide. If this indiscriminate numbering were intended as a mere exhibition of artistic confusion, it might be allowed to pass without any comment save that suggested by its obvious merits; but I wish to point out that it involves a grave inconvenience. People are continually calling at the wrong houses, giving the occupants and themselves a vast deal of unnecessary trouble. At night the evil is aggravated by the absence of lamps, and the heaps of rubbish and other obstructions in the newer half of the street.

It is indeed increasingly evident that the interests of this street have been grossly neglected; or more accurately the interests of the people who have been obliged to choose a residence in it. I say obliged, because it is a great hardship for a great many, having their employment at the Pier District, to reside there at all; but a hardship which I do not see how it is possible to obviate, unless it were considered more benevolent to utilize the meadow near Archliff Fort for cottage building than as a recreation ground.

The origin of the evil rests with the Council, inasmuch as it allowed the railway companies to eject inhabitants from the Pier District, before adequate provision had been made for them in some other part of the town. How is it is so obvious a difficulty was not anticipated, and properly met? Is the Council aware that people have been allowed to occupy houses in this street which were minus doors, windows, water closets, and in one instance even a fire grate? yet such which I am told is a fact.

But it is useless to dwell upon the past, except in as far as it seems necessary to bring home responsibility to those with whom it rests. The thing is, to make reparation for the injury that has been inflicted, and this I imagine the Council can best do by playing  a close attention to the interests of the street, now and in the future.

I remain, dear sir,

With many thanks,

 Your obedient servant,

A Edwards.

Clarendon Street, Dover, 1879.

From the Dover Express and East Kent Intelligencer, 16 January, 1880. Price 1d.

CLARENDON STREET

To the Editor of the Dover Express.

Sir, - Anyone would hardly infer from the Town Clerk's language describing the roadway leading from the "Engineer" public-house, as "an old foot-path that might be temporarily repaired," that this same roadway is the natural and convenient approach to Clarendon Street, yet such is the fact that it ought to have been distinctly stated , so that the public might not be mislead, and possibly put to inconvenience.

The approach by way of Selbourne Terrace involves a circuitous walk over a rough road of at least fifty yards, further, and is, indeed, impracticable for horses.

I am, sir,

Your obedient servant.

A. E.

From the Dover Express and East Kent Intelligencer, 16 April, 1880. Price 1d.

CLARENDON STREET

To the Editor of the Dover Express.

Sir, - Now that the din of the electioneering is hushed, local matters may command attention.

Since, thanks to your interest, the neglected condition of Clarendon Estate was made public, the paths in Clarendon Street have been paved, and the road partially made. This is a genuine benefit for which I, for one, am extremely grateful; but unfortunately its value is in a great measure discounted by the circumstance that the approach to the street remains as it was - a rough road at the best of times, and in bad weather slimy, miry, and absolutely dangerous.

A good pavement is in itself an inestimable boon, but if you have to wade through fifty yards of mud and slush to reach it, the advantage is not very apparent.

There is no excuse for further delay, as the builders' carts have long since been diverted to the other end of the street; the word of authority alone is wanted to perfect a benefit at present grotesquely incomplete.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

A. E.

Clarendon Street,

Dover, April 15, 1880.

From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday 4 February, 1938

ENGINEER BUS SIGN

Councillor Gates said that some months ago the bus stop sign outside the "Engineer" was knocked down by a motor-car and since then it had been lying in the yard of the Christ Church Mission hall. He did not know whether the Surveyor had had any official information that the sign had been knocked down.

The Surveyor said he did not know anything about it .He did not know whether there was any special reason why it was not replaced. He would look into it.

From the Dover Express, August, 1999

POLICE officers were called to Folkestone Road to prevent an outbreak of violence as a group of around 40 asylum seekers laid siege to The Engineer pub.

Cops were called in after residents feared a pitched battle in the streets after an assault on a 21-year-old immigrant earlier.

Officers with dogs sealed off the road while the crowd was calmed and four people were arrested.

The landlord of the pub, who was hosting a party to celebrate his first anniversary in charge of the business, later said he had not been aware of the trouble brewing outside until police had burst in.