Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Thank You David.
Roger
Guest 713- Registered: 19 Mar 2011
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As already been said that pennies is closing!
I was talking to the lady in the above shop today,& she told me the shop closes a week on saturday,she also said the shops like pouindland has had no effect on their sales.
The real reasn for closing is... they are retiering,but it had to happen one day,none of us are getting any younger. still it is a shame to see the shop closing.
lets hope they have a long & peacful retirment.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Thanks Roger.
I had heard that she has been so upset by kids running amok in her shop and it is quite small. Retiring is a nicer reason I guess and I too wish Janet well.
That part of Cannon Street (a very short road anyway) has quite a few holes in it, what with the Party Shop, the double fronted shop and now Pennies, it can't help the existing shops.
Roger
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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And another..........
There's another one up in the High Street but as it's not official yet I'll keep schtum.
Terry
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Bloody Hell ! Holes all over the place.
Trouble is that without finding out the reason for closing (business-rates too high for the amount of trading they do), lack of foot-fall, lack of profit, company re-organisation, retiring etc.) there's little that can be done.
We were bucking the trend at one time, but we'll soon be catching up with Margate.
Creates a sense of greater urgency.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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don't think we will end up like margate roger, they have westwood cross close by.
i have always said how well dover does with regard to the number of retail outlets filled.
we lose some but others come along to replace, who would have expected k college
to take a unit?
when poundland came it drove at least two of the ejected market traders to take over
shops that would not have been let otherwise.
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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But one of them, "Beaches", didn't last Howard.
Terry
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Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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On a buoyant note I spotted the name of a new business operating in the Charlton Centre - 'Steptoe & Son'
when did they open their doors as I have been away on business for a while.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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They have been in the Charlton Centre for quite a while, they started off in the little shop by the car park that was the shoe repairers.
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Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Thanks for that Jan, they must have moved into the old cobblers when Kavernel moved in next door I suppose, shops seem to hop from one unit to another as their businesses grow which is great, using the cobblers as a stepping stone
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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And this is part of my vision for the street-market - inviting young people to try their entrepreneurial skills in an affordable way, then maybe move on to cheaper premises.
It can be done.
Roger
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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I hinted at another closure in post #64. Here it is.
Terry
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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That is a shame, a sign of the times I suppose.
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Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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At least they are still trading, obviously cutting back on the overheads, I wish them well.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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Walked up the old high street Folkestone on Sunday
80 % of them new art shops gone out of businesses
I am not surprised , some of them sculptures looked like they fell of the wheels of some old concrete truck,
Then they stick a £300 price tag on them.
Judith Roberts- Registered: 15 May 2012
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The Old High Street is very depressing. It used to have so many quirky shops. I remember buying some dice with different numbers of faces to make learning times tables fun for my children in a model shop there. Some of the shops appear to only open for a few hours a week.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I posted on this very same subject in detail at least 4 months back
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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This time it's for real.
Another two units fronting the High Street are now S/H shops at the Charlton Centre.
Terry
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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blimey thats the second such annoucement
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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can't be more than a couple of years since the last closure announcement.
must be expensive to keep a large showroom like that with not a great deal of footfall.
