The Gov- Registered: 24 May 2020
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Gym equipment on the seafront ?
victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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It was myself that got the gym equipment put up same on the sea front same as I done years ago in River, it is there for the public of all ages to use most councils have them now over the Uk and they
are used a lot by all ages, and why is that wrong ?and better then have young ones going around with nothing to do ,so do not knock it ,and the one on the front was NOT paid for out of the public purse .
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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https://dovertowncouncil.gov.uk/fun-fabulous-fit-new-outdoor-gym-on-dover-seafront/
"The new gym is just the latest project in the Town Council’s long-standing campaign to support the health and wellbeing of local people, spending your money in the ways that you want – common sense solutions for everyone."
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Not supposed to gym equipment but not on the sea front .Should have been elsewhere.
The Gov- Registered: 24 May 2020
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I have to go a have a look. I did not know it was there.
To long in the tooth for all that moving about now
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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Excellent news about the gym equipment. Nice to see some off the 'Olympic legacy' which we were promised for the district when we spent all those hundreds of thousands of pounds welcoming the Olympic torch ashore just over a decade ago .....
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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Yes very good news and in the right place alot of the public run along there and the new piers, it was put in the wrong place at first, but I do not know if they moved it likeI asked them to it was only last year at poppy day I asked the chairman of the D.H.B. for it to be move from where they had put it,it was placed behind the war memorial on the green and it could not been seen, years ago when I first asked for one to be put on the front ,I wanted right on the front so it could be seen and used. and at that time the D.H.B was waiting for the funds to come from the .U.to help with the build.It was the same at RIVER they had to wait years to get help in the funding of one,Also I was asking all the parish councils I was sitting on +the town council to get them to do the same and glad most done it in the end.
victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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I am not looking for any glory over this but just please that it was done,and I hope more do it.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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Can't say I ever seen anyone use it
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Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
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Keith Sansum1 wrote:Can't say I ever seen anyone use it
You have not looked hard enough, people use it daily. Evenings especially.
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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Thank you for saying that I was down there myself this morning ,funny I go down there on a weeky base,s and do not see anyone that criticise what is being done down there.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Reginald
I'm around that area quite a lot , but if it is used then that has to be good
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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I didn't understand the 'The Port of Dover wants to build out into the sea' bit, given that the article later says 'Mr Bannister told the BBC that plans already existed to reclaim land in the port's western docks, for cargo use. Now, he is looking to speed up the project so the new area can be used to hold passengers when EES starts.'
Anyway, it sounds like Eastern Docks pax could be housed or processed in Western Docks:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66711198. Needs must, I guess, but it raises the interesting questions of: how d'you get them in there and back out again?
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Button wrote:I didn't understand the 'The Port of Dover wants to build out into the sea' bit, given that the article later says 'Mr Bannister told the BBC that plans already existed to reclaim land in the port's western docks, for cargo use. Now, he is looking to speed up the project so the new area can be used to hold passengers when EES starts.'
Anyway, it sounds like Eastern Docks pax could be housed or processed in Western Docks:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66711198. Needs must, I guess, but it raises the interesting questions of: how d'you get them in there and back out again?
Just heard the article on the Today programme. I can only imagine that the plan is to provide pre-clearance prior to departure check-in. But surely that would just shift the delay elsewhere unless they can liberate huge amouns of space at the Western? Thank heaven I'm out of it all.
Button- Location: Dover
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I assume this is infilling the Tidal Harbour and/or the Granville, but that access would be at ground level via Limekiln Street roundabout. Hm!
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Button- Location: Dover
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Dover parliamentary candidates take note: the Port of Dover needs you! Specifically it needs a government-funded, operationally tenable solution to the EES issue, plus (and I hadn't thought of this) the electricity grid infrastructure by 2030 necessary to deliver 160MW for recharging battery powered vessels. Looking forward to your manifestos...
https://www.portofdover.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Port-of-Dover-Britains-port-of-national-strategic-importance.pdfCaptain Haddock likes this
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Button- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock wrote:I can just see all the lights of Dover dimming whenever a ship berths, like the prison lights used to do in old black and white films when the prisoner went to the electric chair!
Do you remember the dairy in Great Mongeham? Well, my first house was two doors along and the lights did indeed dim every time the fridges kicked-in!
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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