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Priz demolition: Folkestone nightclub Onyx given floral tributes as demolition starts

13:00, 29 February 2016

Flowers have been left to one of Folkestone's best loved venues as it is demolished.

Grieving revellers have paid their respects to the former Priz nightclub which is currently being knocked down.

Attached to the metal fencing around the seafront venue are a lonely bunch of chrysanths against the backdrop of diggers and bulldozers.

Floral tributes were left to The Priz as demolition started in the week before the fire. Picture: Tony Flashman
Floral tributes were left to The Priz as demolition started in the week before the fire. Picture: Tony Flashman
Work has started on knocking down the former Priz nightclub in Folkestone. Picture: Gary Browne
Work has started on knocking down the former Priz nightclub in Folkestone. Picture: Gary Browne

The seafront venue, known most recently as Onyx, closed last year.

Bulldozers moved on to the site to clear the former 1920s pavilion last week.

But former party-goes are commemorating the loss of "everybody's second home".

A note added to the flowers left at the site reads: "You were everybody's second home and last resort all at once.

"The hole you leave here is nothing compared to the hole you leave in my heart.

"Thanks for the memories #letsgetprizical #stickyfloors"

The Priz gained its name during the time it was officially called La Parisienne.

The former Marine Gardens Pavilion is being demolished to make way for the seafront redevelopment.

A bid to get the building listed by English Heritage failed earlier this year.

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