Folkestone Harbour Arm Festival

• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  30 April 2016     15:36313312
  #1      
  A bit different to our pier.
  
  http://www.kentonline.co.uk/folkestone/news/bank-holiday-festival-on-harbour-95041/
• Guest 977

  • Registered: 27 Jun 2013
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  30 April 2016     17:15313313
  #2      
  Not a bit - a lot different!
• Ross Miller

  • Location: London Road, Dover
  • Registered: 17 Sep 2008
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  30 April 2016     17:26313316
  #3      
  True it is different in lots of ways, not least it is no longer a working port (ok they have a small amount of commercial fishing) which allows the harbour arm etc to be utilised in a different way.
  
  Perhaps when DHB have bankrupted themselves with their vanity Western Docks project we might see something similar in Dover
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• Reginald Barrington

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 17 Dec 2014
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  30 April 2016     17:31313318
  #4      
  Can't see it with our council, it'll end up with a bowling alley and hotel on it
  Arte et Marte
• Weird Granny Slater

  • Location: Dover
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  30 July 2017     18:48331960
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  Took a walk from Folkestone West to Folkestone Central via Sandgate, the lower Leas and the harbour today.
  
  This new footpath (still under construction) begins near the east end of the coastal park and snakes across the shingle beach to the harbour arm. I assume these are sleepers from the old railway:
  
  

  

  
  
  It doesn't look busy, but it was lunchtime, and the restaurants, bars and cafes in the covered area to the right of the Greek restaurant-on-a-bus were full:
  
  

  

  
  
  A lovely tin-hatted lady from Step Short pointed out the new Antony Gormley sculpture on the harbour arm's half tide loading bay (part of the Triennial starting in September). Fortunately the tide was out when I visited so the whole piece was visible. The girder's not there for reasons of modesty: it was the best view I could get. You can also look down on the sculpture if you're happy walking on the mesh above it. There is apparently another on Sunny Sands (which I couldn't pick out) and a third in Margate:
  
  

  
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• Weird Granny Slater

  • Location: Dover
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  15 May 2019     18:15357447
  #6      
  Bronze man's back!
  
  

  

  
  
  Busy too.
  
  

  
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