Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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A new Exhibition has opened at Dover Museum...showing Dover in words and pictures and it sounds fascinating, just the thing for some of the guys on here.....
From Shakespeare to Ian Fleming, Dover has played its part in the written word over the centuries - and now a new exhibition has opened at Dover Museum looking at some of the writers and their works inspired by the town and its history.
A reference to the White Cliffs of Dover in 'King Lear' is the reason why Shakespeare Cliff has its name, and Mathew Arnold's poem 'Dover Beach' describes the cliffs as 'Glimmering and vast.' Charles Dickens frequently visited and stayed in Dover, where he wrote parts of 'Bleak House' and 'Great Expectations'. Lord Byron, George Eliot, WH Auden, Noel Coward, Ian Fleming, Daniel Defoe, Wordsworth, and many other famous writers have also lived in or written about the unique town and culture of Dover.
Ah yes indeed...we have often quoted from Dover Beach here on Doverforum.
The exhibition, 'Kingdom's Key: Dover in Words and Pictures', features extracts from the works of a range of writers, as well as pictures of the areas that inspired them. The title of the exhibition itself is adapted from a 13th century quotation by Matthew Paris about Dover Castle, which he described as 'the Key to England'.
The new stairwell exhibition runs until 22 January 2012.
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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This sounds great, certainly one for me, looking forward to it
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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those stairwell exhibitions are usually very good making excellent use of space.
a couple that spring to mind are the ones about wartime dover and the history of channel swimming.
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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Sounds like the exhibition is taken from the lovely little booklet produced many years ago by Christine Waterman:
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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It takes you up to my 9th birthday also in Dover.
Vic Matcham......why do you turn every thread into yours
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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You do not have to read it Mr Norman,just look where my name is and bypass it mate.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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(Have to agree with Charlie, it does get rather boring at times....)
Nice pictures on the above, looks like a William Burgess
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Well I say the same to you aswell you do not have to read it do you.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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in fairness to vic he done the welding on the stairwell but is too modest to mention it.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Thank you Howard yes I also put in the bars in the windows on that staircase me and A Mr Dav Mckeen,who was my boss at the time,I think that was in the late 1980s. That is the kind of work I like doing same as Canterbury working in the very old buildings great.
Mr Matcham...you dominance is such....that you cannot bypass it.....
If I wish to read about you....I would find a way....but the forum is not where I would look....This is really nothing personal, so please do not read it as such....
However, I find you very irritating, in your constant negative comments about nothing will happen, the planning department of the council, your boxing days, your welding days...your legs, how many meetings you attend....you maybe or maybe not, a character who has been born and bred here......but it is for other people to give you your spin and charm...not, constantly yourself.....
Now this is a cracking book, I suspect the gathering at Blakes yesterday was excellent, the People's Community Port vis a vis the People's Port....everything is true and stimulating on this forum.....Some of us fail, like myself....but you seem to be everywhere, like a buzzing fly...so I cannot bye pass you.....
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Well I can not help you on that one,what you see is what you get with me,hate me,love ,me I do not care a dam.
Can we get back to the book now thank you.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Definitely be going to the museum again soon to see this exhibition.
My visit last week revealed something I didn't know: 10 years ago a golden cup, older than our Bronze Age Boat, was found near Sandwich, and it is one of only five known gold cups of its kind in Britain and Europe.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i seem to remember that one vaguely, was it the one in damaged condition that nobody could agree how it had been damaged?
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The Ringlemere Gold cup found near Pastry. The one in the museum is a replica, the original I think is at the british museum
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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It was found near Ringleton Manor and the land holders were the Smith Family,the annoying thing about it,and if this sounds like Vic I used to work for them and worked in that field that it was found in,thought it was an old tin can. Paul it is near Woodnesborough not Pastry (Eastry).
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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definitely the one i was thinking of.
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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that must have been some steel toe cap you were wearing john.
i reckon that cup could benefit from some quality welding, do you know of anyone suitable?
