Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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31 October 2010
11:2077666Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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31 October 2010
13:1477696Looks interesting - not bad price either.
There is so much good about Dover, but it's not being managed properly. As the (Dover) Chamber of Commerce have been given the task of Supporting the Town and businesses here, they should play a much more active role. It seems to me they are far to complacent about it all.
It's all very well offering sweeping statements and meaningless words of "we are working for the Town and Businesses"; it isn't "real" support, just words and no substance.
Roger
Keith Sansum1
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31 October 2010
13:2077697Roger
I realise you have a real passion for Dover s many of us have
but this continued chamber of commerce hunting surely does t need to go on?
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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31 October 2010
13:2777698It's got nothing to do with hunting, Keith, you know that; it's to do with the body given the responsibility but not providing real support, just platitudes.
Roger
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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31 October 2010
13:3177699Nothing to do with your moving away from the board,
I agree the prob should do more but dont know to much about what they do.
Baut i have no axe to grind
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Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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31 October 2010
14:2477703Look forward to seeing this new book, and above all, hopefully seeing picture`s that haven`t been published before.
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Guest 652- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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3 November 2010
13:3378270Received my book today, not bad, got up to date pictures as well as some old ones, that I have not seen before, the Grand Hotel in all its glory, the Burlington, the tunnelers that excavated the Grand Shaft, impressive
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
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3 November 2010
15:1678282Likewise Sheila, I wonder how much trade they did via this thread.
Terry
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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3 November 2010
20:1478341"the tunnelers that excavated the Grand Shaft" - definately NOT the Grand Shaft, but I think the tunnel under the railway line behind Buckland Mill and Crabble ??
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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3 November 2010
20:2278345i was trying to work out the link between tunnelers and the grand shaft.
Matt Bristow- Location: Whitfield, Dover
5 November 2010
11:1778567Roger/Keith
Interesting, I must admit I applied to join the chamber not so long ago. Not heard anything back at all! if they are 'working for the town and businesses' perhaps I dont fit the 'desired' business profile!
Apologies for the thread hijack
Karlos- Location: Dover
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Saw this new book set in Dover.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/305/305340/this-nowhere-place/9780241448885.html
From the author
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/why-kent-is-the-new-crime-writing-capital-242943/
After living in York, the This Nowhere Place writer wanted her second book to highlight the way people attach identity to places.
Natasha said: "When you're younger you can feel very trapped in a place. But as you grow up, your relationship to that place changes because you understand it and you start to see its beauty. So, the title comes from a 16-year-old's perspective which is obviously a little gloomy.
"My argument is Dover is not a 'nowhere place' but it gets treated like it. For some reason we have allowed Dover's identity and history to be overshadowed by places like York or Bath or Edinburgh.
"Dover has just as much history as York but York is crawling with tourists and has a nice pretty bow on it. I felt defensive on Dover's behalf as people seem to just pass through."Jan Higgins likes this
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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The Extraordinary Hope of Dawn Brightside: by Jessica Ryn
I have just bought this on my Kindle but have not started reading it yet, apparently it is set in Dover and the author lives here.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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That should be good then
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