A Roman Garden in Dover by the Sea
- 20 November 2012 22:01202467Britannia having inherited the Roman Empire, Dover is soon to receive a Roman Garden, in addition to the Roman House which is painted and situated in the Roman Lawn area of York Street.
This Is Kent announces: "The plan is to create a sensory garden, a Roman herb garden, history trail, planting beds and a vertical growing area to avoid damaging the area where a Roman bath is believed to be buried."
With our Light Tower Church overlooking the Sea, unique in the world as being the only church with a Roman lighthouse integrated into the ecclesiastic complex, and the Roman House in the Town, and now a Roman Garden coming soon, and with possibly a Roman Bath still to be uncovered, the question arises: why go to Rome?
For more on the project:
http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/Gardening-project-Dover-given-pound-500-vouchers/story-17328012-detail/story.html?ito=email_newsletter_thisiskentChanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
Rule Britannia!
Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 21 November 2012 08:43202482there are a few threads running on this one alex.
- 21 November 2012 10:22202495Hello? Earth to Alpha Centauri: are you reading me? Is this breaking news from Ancient Rome that This Is Kent are now publishing? Confusion is mine.
Why go to Rome? The food, the culture, lots of other good stuff, need I add more?
Yours bathed in the refracted hues of a thousand Roman tiles in the rubble of the Cause Is Altered,
Andy - 21 November 2012 11:47202515OK!
Talking about being negative when something comes Dover's way!!!
Try writing something positive, and what do you get?Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
Rule Britannia!
Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 21 November 2012 11:57202519In Rome you would have got the anus equi award, Alex.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson - 21 November 2012 12:10202522nothing to do with negativity alex, all about duplication - when people use the search facility they come up with at least 3 in this case and they would not know which had the latest information.
http://www.dover.uk.com/forums/dover-forum/dover-community-garden
http://www.dover.uk.com/forums/dover-forum/brighter-dover-project - 21 November 2012 12:21202528For what it's worth, I'm really pleased that the community garden project has been given some bunce by the fancy box bods. Great to see projects like this gaining momentum in Dover. Anything good that keeps the barbarians at bay is all right by me.
Due to being completely stupid, however, I do find some of these threads hard to follow, hence my brief surrealistic diatribe.
Cheers all,
Andy - 21 November 2012 12:43202530Caecilius est in horto
- 21 November 2012 13:46202536Ah yes, Neil, dear old Caecilius. Cambridge Latin Course, DGSB, '70s and '80s.
Erat Quintus discus novus.
Cerberus est in Metella (which was still legal in ancient Pompeii). - 21 November 2012 13:56202540Incontinentia Buttocks is the best I can do
[URL][/URL]Been nice knowing you :) - 21 November 2012 14:29202545I just couldn't resist Andrew, my girls are still doing the same course today at the Girl's Grammar School. The youngest has just started, so I've been having a bit of a nostalgia trip just lately.
- 21 November 2012 15:00202552still trying to work out whether all this stuff is latin or i have stumbled into a stanley unwin convention.
- 21 November 2012 15:53202563Yes, Neil, DGSB gave us a solid grounding in Latin, didn't it, courtesy of the mighty Boris Haines.
'Stanley Unwin Convention', Howard - love it! You might be on to something there.
Cheers,
Andy - 21 November 2012 16:54202575O level 1967. Forgotten most of it tho'.I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
- 21 November 2012 19:16202595Having received the news last night via email from This Is Kent, Howard, the latest updated information on the Roman Garden in Dover is in the link I provided in post 1.
There was no specific thread relating to an imminent Roman Garden nor to a Roman Bath still to be discovered in the Roman Lawn area, which is all news to me.
Something positive for Dover.
As for the search facilities, Howard, if you digit: Roman garden in Dover, on Google, this thread will come up on the top of page 1. So really it is an exaltation of Dover on the world-wide Web for anyone searching under these key words.
That's why I make use of the Web to exalt Dover and provide information on our Town to our benefit.
Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
Rule Britannia!
Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 21 November 2012 19:41202600"a Roman Bath still to be discovered in the Roman Lawn area,"
Not sure there is any discovering to be done - they did that rather well in the 1970s and covered it up again !!!Been nice knowing you :) - 21 November 2012 19:55202602alex
the link refers only to the community garden which would have been blooming this summer if the replica bronze age boat coves hadn't needed to requisition the area.
there is no roman bath or history linked to this project, just a very pleasant garden planned for the town centre. - 21 November 2012 20:04202606+ it won't be that Roman as we have most of their species here already, damn you Alexander (the plant that is
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21 November 2012 20:05202608its a bit to sureal for me.outside bath houses with loos and mansion houses that are painted.
- 21 November 2012 20:26202612and why did they live so far underground !Been nice knowing you :)