| The impressive
bulk of the old Burlington Hotel was a landmark on Dover’s
Sea Front until the Second
World War.
Built in the 1860s on the site of a
building called Clarence House, the hotel faced the
sea across Clarence Lawn. Originally called the ‘Clarence’,
it soon changed its name to the ‘Imperial’. The original
venture was a failure and the hotel was closed from
1871 until 1897, when it was expensively restored under
the name ‘Burlington Hotel’ by the Fredericks Hotel
Company.
The hotel closed in the 1920s and was
converted into flats in 1931. Burlington Mansions as
they were known were destroyed in the Second
World War, with four shells and three bombs scoring
direct hits. The ruins of the building were demolished
in 1949.
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