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Dover's history is an asset that the powers that be will not only ignore but will bulldoze away given half a chance.
Hence, it is important to ensure that every means at our disposal is utilised to keep our history in the public eye.
For my part having spent years campaigning including using the legal process, successes include - Western Heights, Old Metropole building, Connaught Park, Pencester Gardens; and failures which include - Brook House demolished, unique north of the Alps Roman remains that the council saw fit to drive piles through. Some twenty years ago, I started writing about what history, unique to our town that can still be seen or has influence.
Like all authors one needs outlets, be it the local papers - the Dover Mercury regularly publishes my contributions , the Dover Society have also started to publish them too! My first book, Banking on Dover, was self published in 1994 ... and still selling. My latest book, Haunted Dover, has proved to be a best seller of its type.
The main way that these books, and those of other local authors, are brought to the attention of potential readers are through bookshops such as Dover's Sussex bookshop in Biggin Street.
Sussex Bookshop not only stocks local history books but gives them pride of place, enables book signing - where the public can meet the locals who are local history authors.
This is of the greatest importance if one of Dover's greatest assets - its history - written by those who live in the district, is to be saved.
Through the Dover Forum web site, please can I appeal to the owners of Sussex Book store not to close it down.
Lorraine Sencicle