Filling the Miner's plinth

• Diana Woodridge

  • Location: Dover
  14 August 2010     10:4965451
  #1      
  Now that the Miner has gone, my next-door-neighbour Mr Henry May (he insisted that I credit him!) has suggested that the anchor just lifted from the sunken ship in the Western Entrance to the harbour, should go on the vacant plinth. This would serve to celebrate not only our maritime history but also the part we played in keeping our shores safe in WW1 and 2.
• Guest 651

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  14 August 2010     10:5665456
  #2      
  Yes this has been suggested by somene on here a couple of weeks ago - if suitable it would be good. I did hear that the Channel Dash Association were interested in putting a memorial there too.
  Been nice knowing you :)
• Guest 690

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  15 August 2010     15:3465571
  #3      
  That would be very appropriate Diana, and maybe a vandal proof montage could make a background to set it off?
  Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
• Diana Woodridge

  • Location: Dover
  16 August 2010     10:2865664
  #4      
  Wire it up to the electrics!!
• Guest 690

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  24 August 2010     21:2067079
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  Here`s the anchor from that sunken vessel, and a worthy replacement for the miner statue on the sea front I think? It was on the vessel tied up alongside the Prince of Wales pier this afternoon. Just imagine the history that`s taken place since this fine piece of metalwork last saw the light of day.
  Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  24 August 2010     21:4867088
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  i must admit that i rather like the idea of the anchor on the plinth.
  
  it would go down well with locals and visitors alike.
• Guest 651

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  24 August 2010     22:0667095
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  Quite a few anchors of mystery origin in and around the harbour like these in the Wellington Docks and Eastern Arm
  
  

  

  
  
  

  
  Been nice knowing you :)
• Guest 653

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  25 August 2010     06:4467117
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  That first anchor doesn't look too bad - a bit of Hammerite and it'll look great.
  
  
  
  
  Roger
• Guest 673

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  25 August 2010     11:5367144
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  The anchor from the Spanish Prince is the ideal candidate to occupy the vacant Waiting Miners plinth. It would be directly facing the Western Entrance where the Spanish Prince has kept guard all these years. In WW1 she and the Livonian had nets strung between them to prevent access by submarines or other craft. In WW2 she, together with the War Sepoy and Minnie de Larrinaga, completely blocked the entrance to prevent access. In all the intervening years she has served to dampen the wave amplitude over in the Eastern Docks by acting as an underwater breakwater deflecting the powerful jetstream flowing through the Western Entrance under the influence of the tide race.
  
  The anchor as depicted in Colin's photo is a traditional anchor as sported in the tattoos on the arms of countless generations of sailors and is absolutely ideal for this plinth.
  
  

  

  
  
  
  Interested to learn that the Channel Dash Association are also looking for a site for a memorial to supplement the superb one at Ramsgate commemorating the doomed Swordfish airmen who perished in their suicidal attack on the German battle squadron. The contribution from Dover was from the MTB's who sallied forth against overwhelming odds and a depiction of this action is much to be welcomed.
  
  http://www.channeldash.org/Monument.html