Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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11 October 2010
20:1174567I`ve had an email from the lovely Joanna and Clare from the Dover Arts Development, if I could let you all know, that this coming Saturday 16th October, between 1pm and 1.30pm, there will be a showing on the big screen, of some excerpt`s of the new film being released in early 2011 of the former paper mill in Dover. It will be called `WATERMARK`, and it promise`s to be a very interesting and well researched film, with many former employee`s taking part, along with many old picture`s and contemporary cine film. So much of Dover`s past has been lost over the year`s, with it`s population dying off or moving away, that it`s good to see that something has been recorded for posterity while the former workforce is still around to give a lasting record.
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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11 October 2010
20:1674569Dover used to produce very fine paper, of high quality, and it was exported far and wide. It would be a good idsea to have that paper-producing factory up and running again! But for this to come about, and other centres of small-medium scale production running, we need an economic plan, and some local economic autonomy, with some local investment (coming from the Port).
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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11 October 2010
20:2474571Unfortunatley Alexander, the paper mill and all that expertise is gone, never to return, courtesy of the french, or maybe the english for selling another profitable industry off to foreign concerns? I don`t know, I`ll never understand politics.
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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11 October 2010
20:3174573Yaeh but, Colin, the idea is to build or purchase new machinery and get it running again in Dover. Next time we'll make sure it doesn't get sold off again! If you go and look back at my second thread, called Council Economy Boards, it explains how a Court of Economy (with constitutional authority) would prevent small industry being bought up by big concerns or being shut down and flogged off!
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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17 October 2010
10:0075271Well, what a waste of time, another event in Dover and nobody `bothered` turning up. The Dover Art`s people were there, who`ve put so much into the project. Everyone was emailed to broadcast the event, and just one person beside`s myself turned up. This is no surprise to me, this is the third event in as many days where an event has gone unsupported. I know people have things on, and not all can make it for one reason or another, but surely a handful could? Anyway, it was my first time of actually standing there yesterday afternoon, and watching the big screen for the event, which consisted of just a few paltry minute`s, and there was no actual timetable as to when the above event would appear, thereby you had to watch everything else being shown. My first and probably last viewing of the big screen.
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Brian Dixon
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17 October 2010
15:4975298colin,i put this down to apathy and cant be botherd attitude.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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17 October 2010
16:1775300You could be right Brian, though I must admit that up to the beginning of last year, the wife and I went to Canterbury, Folkestone, Westgate anywhere`s bar Dover, I can`t explain that, but maybe other`s on here can, or even currently do the same thing. Courts the furnisher`s were always a popular store for us, such a wide and varied range of goods at competitive prices. As far as I`m aware, there`s no furniture shops in the local area to compare to them.
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17 October 2010
22:0575345I have A film about the paper mill which was made by an X Employee and a member of Dover Camcorder Club its called, A Job For Life
