Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
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#1
Does anyone know if we are having Christmas lights in Dover this year, when the they are due to be switched on, and whether anyone has yet been selected to do the job?
#2
They are in place at the bottom end of the high street ( I can remeber where they run to ) They look rather nice even when switched off.
Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
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#3
Lights, even.
Innit.
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#4
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 652- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#6
the Xmas swith on is on the 26th November, plenty activity during the day, as usual
Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
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#7
Thanks Sarah, Sheila, Howard, and Peter.
Has anyone been arranged to do the honours?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#8
up until now it has always been a high quality actor(soap star) that is doing panto at the marlowe.
usually he/she does us deal and sandwich.
Guest 652- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#9
Andrew its Sheila not Sarah, at moment still ironing out who will switch on, some just want the Mayor, and others want actor.
Jan Higgins
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#10
I would be quite happy with the Mayor unless a "star" will do it for nothing.
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Terry Nunn
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#11
There's the rub Jan, should we pay for a C list "star"?
Terry
ps I won't mention Gloria Honeybun
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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#12
NO as the chances are that the majority will not know who they are spend what they would cost on plants or some other item that will brighten the town up.
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#13
Andrew may have been thanking me
Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
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#14
He was, Sarah. But post now amended.
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#15
The celebrity doing the switch-on always seems to be the most famous actor that I have never heard of.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#16
that's right but normally it is someone in a soap that it is popular with the young who are in the majority at these events.
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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#17
Or more specifically because they're performing at the Marlowe.
Terry
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Guest 683- Registered: 11 Feb 2009
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#18
SarahP
I thought the lights were looking quite impressive too. It all looks more hopeful than it sounded a few weeks ago; well done to those who made it possible.
Guest 652- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#19
We do not pay for the star to switch on.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#20
I think the town council should invite the chairman of DDC to switch on the lights, as a measure of the high esteem in which our politicians are held by the townsfolk.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
