Vale Navio, GONE!
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Topic: Vale Navio, GONE!
Posted By: Andrew
Subject: Vale Navio, GONE!
Date Posted: 12/May/2016 at 08:49
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Well, it was a sad sight with a sad history and after all these years it's now been flattened, quite shocked us to see..
(and the garden equipment tree has gone as well!
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Posted By: cubsur
Date Posted: 12/May/2016 at 10:57
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About time too. So who's going to build another luxury all inclusive tourist development there I wonder? Demolition here doesn't happen for pretty well any other reason. ------------- Albufeira Resident www.algarvebus.info public transport information for the Algarve |
Posted By: bob d
Date Posted: 12/May/2016 at 18:50
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Must scoot over and have a look. Are all the villas demolished, even the ones that were lived in?? ------------- we're not brazil we're norn iron |
Posted By: peteknopp
Date Posted: 12/May/2016 at 21:18
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Not The Stable bar ???!!! ------------- 
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Posted By: peteknopp
Date Posted: 12/May/2016 at 21:24
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They must have made some dosh at the beginning because when I came out in '87 I was going to work there and a friend who was already an OPC (gets you in off the street) was slinging people in left right and centre (early days before the bad press) She used to leave printed cards on windscreens of cars at Vilamoura casino and they'd just drive in and do a tour!! She calculated she'd made 29k sterling in just short of a year and she's someone I trust to tell the truth and I saw her wage packets! Anyone on here remember Mad Max's in Branqueira? Great haunt for locals and the Navio crowd for their Sunday roasts then Max would shoot off and spend the profit in said casino!! -------------
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Posted By: Jayjan
Date Posted: 12/May/2016 at 21:29
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Was it just before the traffic lights on the left, coming from Albufeira direction. Used to be the Cockerel too, or am I completely wrong. ------------- Polli the dancing cat strikes again. |
Posted By: peteknopp
Date Posted: 12/May/2016 at 21:40
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Spot on Pauline and also with the Cockerel suggestion - I think....... -------------
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Posted By: Jayjan
Date Posted: 12/May/2016 at 22:03
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Pete we used to go in the cockerel occasionally for Sunday dinner when we had timeshare @ Vale Navio then I think they moved to Herculano where they are now. The place was empty for years and years and then Os Amigos opened around 2004, lasted a couple of years. I think its now been changed into a house. The woman who owned all that property lived on the corner house next door, she might still be alive but not sure. ------------- Polli the dancing cat strikes again. |
Posted By: Jayjan
Date Posted: 13/May/2016 at 00:04
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Put a post on facebook Algarve pages re demolition of Vale Navio and saying wonder what's gonna be built there. Reply from Portuguese guy that a Spanish Company has bought the land for development. We will see. ------------- Polli the dancing cat strikes again. |
Posted By: Andrew
Date Posted: 13/May/2016 at 07:13
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Yes Pete, the Wonkey Donkey has gone.
Bob, the lived in villas the other side of the road remain but the garden ornamant tree has gone. ------------- Andrew |
Posted By: Jayjan
Date Posted: 13/May/2016 at 09:42
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Had some really good nights in the Wonky Donkey & also many good afternoons @ the bowling green, they used to have comps 3 times a week and always a good crowd attended. Andrew have they filled the swimming pools in? ------------- Polli the dancing cat strikes again. |
Posted By: Andrew
Date Posted: 13/May/2016 at 15:00
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Yes JJ everything but the lived in villas and two derelict satellite buildings is as you see in the pics, rubble. ------------- Andrew |
Posted By: Jayjan
Date Posted: 13/May/2016 at 15:51
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Re the Satellite buildings, they look like the Pinetree apartments, we had a timeshare in one of those. Did you notice whether the two individual villas had been demolished which are on the main road just before the entrance to the urbanisation, coming from Albufeira direction. They are down a slight incline off the road and with being overgrown you may not have seen them. Friends of ours from Scotland had one of those after upgrading from an apartment, (paying an extra 3000 sterling for the privelige) only had it for approx 12 months when the place went bang. ------------- Polli the dancing cat strikes again. |
Posted By: Andrew
Date Posted: 13/May/2016 at 17:06
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JJ, as you go in there was one satellite on the left, it looked like some sort of service building, not large, maybe three or for rooms, derelict but not yet reduced to rubble, the other one, as you carried on in there is a left turn, a very similar building there on the left. They were the only two still not flattened. As you entered, with all the rubble on the left, it struck me how many of the occupied villas on the right hand side of the road, were so modern. A few years ago they were all quite old villas, I think a fair bit of money has been spent on building work these past couple of years. What is disconcerting about this area is the way everybody looks at you, there would seem to be a real air of suspicion still around this small area. ------------- Andrew |
Posted By: A9NDY
Date Posted: 13/May/2016 at 18:24
| Found an intresting website/blog regarding the history of vale navio with input of timeshare staff ect... there's a few good pictures of the derelict buliding internal and external |
Posted By: Jayjan
Date Posted: 13/May/2016 at 18:41
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Andrew there is a building on the left as you go in which I think was some sort of service building like you say. There was also a day Nursery there as well. The nursery overlooked the main road. Pinetree apartments which I mentioned previous were to the rear of this. A bit confused, need to go and have a gander when we are next down. ------------- Polli the dancing cat strikes again. |
Posted By: Jayjan
Date Posted: 13/May/2016 at 20:22
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Just had another comment of my post on Facebook algarve pages on what's going to happen on Vale Navio, mmmm two different comments re the developers. Wonder who is correct. The guy who first commented about a Spanish company developing it has said "It was the lady that runs the riding school that told me that was a spanish company and for the moment only is allow to build where is demolishing" 2nd Comment:
" It is going to be a housing complex with shops and offices on. The owner is Portuguese, who owns property in Albufeira. The new complex terminates at the riding school". I have seen the overall layout plans in a portuguese lawyers office. I will not mention his name but he owns a lot of property in Albufeira. ------------- Polli the dancing cat strikes again. |
Posted By: DICEYUK
Date Posted: 16/May/2016 at 11:08
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Interesting http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36298590" rel="nofollow - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36298590 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36298590%20" rel="nofollow - ------------- I hate how peopleï compare Frank Zappa to God. I mean, he's cool and great and nice and everything, but he's no Zappa. |
Posted By: Richardk
Date Posted: 16/May/2016 at 12:20
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There does seem more activity on the building front - a new villa in being built down the road and another around the corner from me. Plus I also see the Camara have restarted work on the council building near the new Cemetery. This had been mothballed for several years |
Posted By: bob d
Date Posted: 24/May/2016 at 16:12
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Vale Navio is much improved already. I know it's full of rubble but it's not all erie like it was before. I think when the buildings were still up you kinda imagined what lurked behind or lived rough in there. Also quite a few of the lived in villas seem to be getting work done, some very fancy indeed. Anyway, demolition continues and just watched someone's once pride and joy flattened by a digger in a matter of minutes. Quite sad really but improvement also. ------------- we're not brazil we're norn iron |
Posted By: cubsur
Date Posted: 15/June/2016 at 12:00
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I took a wander over there yesterday afternoon. A security guard enquired as to my presence. Security? He said that the gippos have been stealing all the metal. He went on to say that a couple of rubble crunching machines are due soon to reduce the piles of big stuff to small stuff. That's going to be really pleasant for anyone living nearby. The whole project he said could take 4 - 6 years to complete. Much work for many people. If it ever gets finished. He let me take a few pictures.    ------------- Albufeira Resident www.algarvebus.info public transport information for the Algarve |