Holiday Inn

Latest 1985

(Name to)

Townwall Street

Dover

From the Dover Express, 2 January 1970

Skyscraper hotel, swimming baths and four multi-storey car parks in plan for seventies.

Above photograph show the plans for the new buildings now called "Burlington House."

Holiday Inn circa 1980.

Above photo, date unknown.

Above advert circa 1980.

Above photo, circa 1972, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. More of a hotel than a pub, the bar was (incredibly enough!) quite popular in the mid-70s and frequented by chaps wanting to impress their girlfriends. In those days, Dover town centre wasn't exactly full of sophisticated venues, though I'm not sure, even in the 1970s, if only selling Watney's counted as sophisticated!

The brutalist tower block adjacent to the pub was supposed to be an "International Hotel" but ended up being Burlington House, which over 30 years, served a variety of commercial uses but mercifully succumbed to the wrecker's ball on 11th February 2016. Nobody wept! The site is now occupied by the St. James' shopping centre.

Building of the hotel commenced in April 1972 and the opening followed on 10 December 1973. It can best be described by saying that it contained all the modern conveniences of the day plus other refinements such as swimming pool. It changed hands in January 1985 when Queens Moat Houses, who also owned the "Dover Stage", bought the hotel, naming it "Dover Moat House".

LICENSEE LIST

NOBLE David 1973

SOURATI Joseph 1973

SHIRLEY M C 1974

TAYLOR Peter J 1974 and 1976

WHITFIELD J W 1975

TAYLOR Peter J 1976

SACHETTI Pierre 1976-8 end

HUCK Meinhardt 1978-9 end

JONES Roy 1979-81 end

LYNDSEY-EATON Kenneth 1981-2 end

POWELL Roger 1982 and 1985

GOODWIN Neil 1983

Library archives 1974

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