Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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17 October 2009
16:1930770#1
Whilst delving into the forums archive again, March 2008, I came across Andrew Stevens introducing himself as a new member, and reading through the various comments. Jaqui`s interested me about the elderly lady with her wartime memories. With the years passing by, much history from citizens who were there is lost forever once they`ve gone. Not just the war. The bus shelter for instance on Folkestone road, the doubts as to whether it was an ex-tram body. Yet, I wonder how long ago, the last person died who had reliable knowledge of it`s origin? What I`m getting at is creating a record somehow, of Dover in the distant past with citizens who have clear memories of a particular area, building etc, before it dies with them, and lost forever. Remember the last line of Robert Louis Stephenson`s poem, `From a Railway Carriage`? Each a glimpse and gone forever.
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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18 October 2009
07:5930823#2
I believe they were doing this at Dover Museum Colin; I don't know how many people they got round to, but there must have been lots of people who have died, taking their personal stories with them and had not been able to share them.
Like those who had personal memories of the First World War - Harry Patch and Henry Allingham, who are no longer with us.
Roger
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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18 October 2009
12:0330852#3
Good morning Roger. It was actually Jaqui`s comments that also made me think about our last WW1 war veteran who died recently. Alas, no one left to give a `I was there` account of their first hand experiences.
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18 October 2009
14:4930867#4
A recent subject glimpsed and now gone forever.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.