howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#1
Courtesy of Peter Sherred.
Here is an opportunity to show just how delighted we are about Dover as we welcome Keep Britain Tidy Spring Clean Campaign 2019. John Morgan, Ken Read and I as veteran litter pickers in Dover over the years endorse this campaign and encourage as many individuals, organisations, property owners and authorities to participate in the campaign.
We are confronting a litter epidemic where our current culture seems to accept as the norm the idea of dropping litter in the open air which is detrimental to the amenities and for the environment of our town and villages. Many local people litter pick all year round but now this month long campaign is hoping to energise and galvanise our communities to tidy up and clean up our localities and it is great people are responding.
So well done to St Margaret’s Parish Council for the litter pick tomorrow at 10.30 at the village hall. Also on Sunday London Road Community Forum volunteers meet at 09.00 at Footprints to tackle Tower Hamlets Road to Cherry Tree Avenue element of London Road. On Saturday 30th Tower Hamlets Forum meet at 10.00 at Northbourne Avenue organising a clean up. DDC apparently will undertake a range of work on roadside clearances.
As a Keep Britain Tidy Litter Heroes Ambassador I urge everyone to support this campaign. Try adopting a street or road or green space and keep it tidy and on a longer term basis. I hope to be meeting representatives of Network Rail regarding removal of rubbish behind fences enclosing tracks. Much to do and so many responding - thank you and in a month’s time may we be all the more delighted with our town of Dover.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Further from Mr Sherred(Photos on his Facebook page).
This is the response from volunteers who make one truly delighted for Dover. Day two of the KBT Great British Spring Clean and a privilege to be out to see and encourage volunteers in their tasks. First off the block London Road Community Forum volunteers led by its Chair Deacon Michelle Legumi and her husband Dave. What an enthusiastic and committed leader for the community seen here outside Footprints at London Road Dover. Also pictured are three of her handful of volunteers who were endeavouring to clear the accumulation of rubbish in the front of the former Methodist Church. Just look at all those cans and other items thoughtlessly dumped at this location. Well done all. Go London Road Community Forum and its chairperson Michelle who was last seen wandering down to a building where graffiti was being painted over! A good example of Tidy up and Clean up.
Meanwhile over at St Margaret’s at Cliffe I encountered the ladies of the St Margaret’s WI about to embark on a similar clean up of local roads in the company of member Brenda Paul, who is also a parish councillor, together with Gill Crone East Kent Federation Chairperson who was joining the local members on this exercise. St Margaret’s WI forms part of the East Kent Federation of the WI and the Federation is celebrating its centenary of founding in 1919. Picture shows the volunteers with grippers raised in a WI formation. Well done and good luck to the ladies of the St Margaret’s WI.
As KBT ambassador thank you to all volunteers taking seriously this campaign to counter our litter epidemic and to enhance the amenities of our town.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#3
More from Peter Sherred.
A beautiful day in Dover today and well done to members of Tower Hamlets Forum for getting stuck in to a rubbish clearance in the Northbourne Avenue area and Tower Hill area of Dover. Each picture has a narrative to explain what and who. Good for the community is the presence of a couple of Town Councillors setting a fine example as was Paul Pearson with his wife Augusta. Paul regularly tackles Barton Path area of the town along with Branch Street and Bridge Street. Good on you, sir, for such a fine community example.
That is all excellent news to make us proud of our town and delighted for Dover. But there is another side to the coin as the sequence of pictures showing rubbish dumped on Network Rail land explains. Clearly in some cases people are filling sacks with their rubbish and tossing them onto the railway operator’s land which is unacceptable and disgraceful behaviour which brings the town into disrepute. This is not Network Rail’s doing or fault it is the town’s unacceptable behaviour.
The good news is I am meeting representatives of Network Rail this next week to show them the state of their estate and to encourage a thorough clearing up of rubbish to improve the quality of our amenities but they shouldn’t have to do this as a result of Dovorians’ thoughtless actions. Well done Tower Hamlets Forum members and all those out litter picking today for you restore faith in people and help keep Dover a town in which to take pride and have a delight in. GO TEAM DOVER!