Rifles Monument and Dover Stage Hotel

c1960s

The memorial in Camden Crescent was erected in 1861 for the men of the 60th Rifles killed in the Indian mutiny of 1857.

In the background is the Dover Stage Hotel was built in 1956-7 and designed by Louis Erdi.  It was demolished in the 1980's.  In the 'now' picture can be seen the awful Burlington House, described in Pevsners Buildings of England as a 'depressingly blank bulk' !!

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