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A few items from one of the several Dover newspapers in the early 1900s. This reports on the New Years Eve happenings in Dover. More items later.
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No mention of people being battered to within a inch of their lives, mass brawls, domestic violence etc. they certainly did not know how to enjoy the new year in those days
Audere est facere.
Thank you Kath , I love items like this
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I'll second that, great to read, thank you Kath.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i must admit to being a bit disappointed with the article i expected to read about arrests for drunk and disorderly and the subsequent appearances at the magistrates court.
when kath has posted stuff from the 18th century the articles were always very lively.
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Birched! FromDover Times, April 10 1913
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i believe that the magistrate was an ancestor of blue barry.
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Dover Times, January 1913
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Dover Times, January 1913
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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45 biggin street is now w.h. smith and was the original marks and spencers store here.
no doubt scotchie paul will correct me on that.
Jan Higgins
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Hattons when it closed became the indoor market for a little while, after the one in Market Square was closed.
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No, Howard,
that was lower down in Biggin Street, number 43 - the building with a bear on the first floor.
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Report on POLICE WORK in Dover, during 1912 (in three parts) (Dover Times Jan 16 1913)
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Kathy
accountability in a nutshell. They didn't need a dozen committees, advisers or watchdogs to get the message across to the public; just the local paper! Brilliant.
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Indeed, Mark.
The variety of their tasks amazes me - lamps which were not working, insecure windows and doors, waste of water, runaway horses, and stray dogs - 80 claimed and 63 slaughtered !!
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64 pounds of coke would be worth a bit more than one and sixpence nowadays. Bolivian marching powder is, I believe, quite expensive.
Kath, most of those tasks to which you refer would nowadays, of course, be carried out by PCSOs, not constables.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
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I bet they were moaning about the paperwork in those days as well.
Imagine writing out all those reports in longhand.
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Dover Times, March 6 1913. 'No votes, no golf!'
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Dover Times, 1913 30 Jan p.6 - sorry picture is not very clear -
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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I bet quite a few of those deserters had simply lost their way back to the barracks after a night out in the pub.
With 365 pubs and almost as many barracks, and half of Britain's regiments marching through Dover coming and going within the Empire, nothing to be surpriesed at!
