howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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head honcho paul raised the issue about other towns laying claim to association with charles dickens and asked whether we were doing our bit.
headmaster mark reminded us that the great man opened a cafe in market square.
earlier this evening dover youth theatre gave a performance of "oliver" in that esteemed establishment.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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great stuff from our youngsters.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Oliver? The old Labour version, I wonder...
"...you gotta pack a picket or two boys, you gotta pack a picket or two..."
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Guest 683- Registered: 11 Feb 2009
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That looks great fun. What an inspired idea; well done to the cafe and the players!
Are there any similar events planned?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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not as far as i know, this wasn't widely known about.
Brian Dixon
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so much for great pr.
Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
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Oh Howard some lovely pictures there what a great idea to use Dickens Cafe as a backdrop, a spot of good thinking on someones part
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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it's a pity that they didnt spread the word,it might have been a better turn out the genreal public.
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I would guess the weather/cold/snow etc. played a part on how many turned up.
Roger
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Oldest Charles Dickens film discovered...
http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/oldest-charles-dickens-film-discovered.html
Better view of the same clip...
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Dickens Journals Online.
"...two weekly magazines - Household Words and All the Year Round - edited by Charles Dickens during the last 20 years of his life."
A thank-you letter to the public who acted as online proof readers...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun/21/thanks-you-dickens-job-done
Dickens Journals Online...
http://www.djo.org.uk/Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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DICKENS in Dover -
See Dover Express 26.9.1913 p.5 cols 2, and 3
Also see Dov/Exp 10 Oct 1913, p.5 col.1
"Betsy Trotwood" cottage (Dover Express 3 Oct 1913?)
Charles DICKENS:
And below this letter (the letter was from Basil SQUIER - Basil SQUIER was proprietor of SQUIER's Bazaar in Snargate Street):
"Another correspondent, writing of Snargate Street, says we forgot to recall that Charles DICKENS gave one of his public readings at the Wellington Hall. This is, however, not so. The reading he gave at Dover was on November 5th 1861, at the Apollonian Hall, ,which was in the part of Snargate Street pulled down in 1930 to widen Commercial Quay. Describing his readings in a letter to his daughter, DICKENS said: 'The effect of the readings at Hastings and Dover really seems to have outdone the best usual impression, and at Dover they wouldn't go, but sat applauding like mad. The most delicate audience I have ever seen in any provincial place is at Canterbury, an intelligent and delightful response in them like the touch of a beautiful instrument, but the audience with the greatest sense of humour certainly is at Dover. The people in the stalls set the example of laughing, in the most curiously unreserved way, and they laughed with such really cordial enjoyment, when SQUEERS read the boys' letters, that the contagion extended to me. For one couldn't hear them without laughing too."
(Dover Express 13 Aug 1948)
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