Guest 767- Registered: 30 Aug 2012
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I feel that after all the time and effort spent on this forum, debating wether or not we are giveing in to whichever tribe of nutters that are ruining the shelter we really need accept a sad truth. If the shelter is left where it is it will go into terminal decline.
Move it or lose it.
No-one is going to lookafter it in the long-term, and no-one is going to keep paying to make repairs which only last weeks at best.
It is the shelter that matters, not it's location.
Keith Sansum1
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for some its the location to!!!!
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Jan Higgins
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Not giving in to vandals at all just not throwing more money down the drain with repeated refurbishments.
How about those who want it to stay set up a rota to guard the thing, that is the only way to stop the mindless idiots whose one aim in life seems to be smashing up the shelter.
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Before the sands of time run out
Enjoy this, your one and only life
Never waste your time in doubt
Cut that knot with trusting knife
Honour those whose use is rife
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Don't agree jan
there were other options
sadly never taken up
a co ordinated approach could have helped
giving in is not the answer
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Brian Dixon
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its not giving in kieth,its called being sensible.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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spot on brian, king canute could not turn the waves back after all.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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well it will be interesting should that option ever be considered
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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which option are you referring to keith?
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Howard
you are very good at playing the (I don't know) post
To explain further, I continue to oppose the moving the tram shelter
simples
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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howard mcsweeney1 wrote:spot on brian, king canute could not turn the waves back after all.
I bet he could have done with a coordinated approach.
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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A coordinated approach certainly would have done the trick, old KC only needed to turn up as the tide was turning. QED
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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@ Tom.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the sorry saga continues.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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lets all give in
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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good idea kieth,then lets move it to a safe place.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Well some of us have been saying this for avery long time, Still the best place and it would still be used as I said before is Dover Castle if they would take it.I have already said it can be moved without taking it apart on the back of a lowloader,but it will have a big cost behind it, but the cost of keeping it where it is must be high to, but soon if the council do not act we will see even more damage to it,I think it is only made out of cast and with the likes of hammers which must have been used already they can damage the cast then you are looking at a very big cost of repair when you start welding cast up. But some of the public that live round there must hear or even see what is going on,the damage they have done would make a noise and loud at that .And who is doing it?is the same persons each time ?and what fun are they geting out of it? There might be more behind this then what we think.
Guest 767- Registered: 30 Aug 2012
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AT the risk of repeating myself, Dover Castle/EH would not want it, EH is going to close in under two years and will not be taking on many, if any, new projects, and anyway, what relivence doe's the shelter have to the castle?
The transport museum? The market square, why not reunite it with the horse trough?
With regard to who is doing it and why, in my opinion it will be down to local kids, maybe newcomers to the town for whom the shelter has no relivence or history. Kids will miss behave, and, in getting away with it, will misbehave again, after all, it's not thier shelter.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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"It's not their shelter."
This is the very nub of the issue. I'm sure I could think of a way around this, if pressed.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the transport museum seems to be the obvious place but they have shown scant interest so far.
my preferred option is still connaught park, no obvious relevance i know, but it would be much better protected there and add a bit more interest to all the restoration work that the volunteers are doing there.
