In the foreground, the River Dour runs from left to right under the road and emerges on the other side of the bridge parapet before making its way to the Bowling Green, Pencester Gardens, and the sea at Wellington Dock.
The photo was taken on Sunday, September 26th, 2010, from in front of The Park Inn (my local pub!) in Park Place.
The Kent Police Museum, based at The Chatham Historic Dockyard, has a small Second World War photo showing the damaged front right-hand corner of Dover Police Station. The caption reads:
Dover Police Station, Ladywell, after cross channel bombardment. The station had only been open a few months.
It was surprising to read it was shell rather than bomb damage because the front of the police station faces away from the Cape Gris Nez area of France where the German long-range guns were located - perhaps the shell entered through the back of the building and blast damage exploded out of the front.
The Kent Police Museum also has some interesting notes on the early history of policing in Dover:
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