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The French, Belgian, and even Dutch visitors who came to do shopping, would stop over in restaurants and cafes.
And visitors would go to attractions centres in large numbers, for example Canterbury Cathedral to name one.
Of-course they still do, but in those days, the numbers were by far greater.
And they did visit churches in Dover: St. Edmund's Chapel used to be open to the Public, donations could be left on a desk near the door, with no-one supervising. There was not a box to place the coins in.
Often there were French Francs there, even 5 Franc pieces, quite a sum in those days.
And all before we joined the Common Market.
That were the days when school children would do work before starting school, or at weekends, or during the Summer holidays. That were days when people would queue on the pavement in front of restaurants to wait their turn for a spare table.
All we get now is shops closing by their two's and three's, and councillors trying to build 14,000 houses and treble Dover's population in the hope that "we'll get more shops".
How pitiful this state of affairs is! All we get now is these politicians and their TV!
