From the Dover Express, 30 April, 1971.

HAROLD STREET DEMOLITION

For many newly-wed flat dwellers these old properties used to be home. Now demolition work has started in Harold Street, and what has proved an eyesore for some time is coming down. Eventually, when all the three-storey building have been removed, building work will start on flats which are part of an overall redevelopment plan for the area.

The properties were built about 1885 by William John Adcock, Then Mayor of Dover. There were a lot of men out of work during his year of office and he got them to lay-out the zig-zag walk near Victoria Park.