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From Dover Telegraph 2 May 1846 page 1:
Henry Russell, entertainer, at the Theatre:
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and a visit by Tom Thumb:
General Tom Thumb: The American man in miniature. Under the Patronage of Her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Queen Dowager, the King and Queen of the Belgians, the Nobility generally and visited in London by 300,000 persons in 4 months! This extraordinary little gentleman is 13 years old, 25 inches high, smaller than any infant that ever walked alone, and weighs only fifteen pounds !
Thre Nobility, Gentry and public are respectfully informed that the little General will hold his Public Levees at the Apollonian Hall, Dover, on Tues and Wed next March 11 and 12th positively for Two days only !
The General will give a variety of Songs, Dances &c. He will give an imitation of Napoleon in full military costume, and the Grecian Statues; the little General will likewise appear in the magnificent Court Dress, which he had the honour of wearing three times before her Majesty sand before the Queen Dowager; also in his new Highland Dress, made and presented by Messrs Brodie McLeod & Co., Glasgow.
The magnificent presents given him by Her Majesty, the Queen Dowager, the Duke of Devonshire &c will be exhibited.
The General's new and elegant Carriage, drawn by two of the Smallest Ponies in the World, with Coachman and Footman in Splendid Liveries, will arrive early on Tuesday.
Hours of Exhibition 11 to 1, 3 to 5 and 7 to 9. Doors open half an hour previous. Admission (regardless of age - one shilling each) (Dover Telegraph 3 Aug 1845 front page)
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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interesting stuff, we keep hearing how things were better in the past.
thankfully nowadays we would not allow a 13 year old to be paraded as a freak for public amusement.
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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..except in Star Wars,7 dwarves.Munchkins,Time Bandits,Chipperfield Circus no you're right it wouldn't happen today..
Marek
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Who's the Queen Dowager, never heard that surname before.
They certainly crossed all the Ts and dotted the Is in those days!
A shilling was a lot of money in then, it was used to recruit bright and breezy lads into the Navy, usually after they were stone drunk in the middle of the night
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Funny this should come up now,Mr Cooper has just give me a old Dover Express of Friday August 3 1979 cost was 10p and on page29 on the headline it has this
"Just one mile to go Vic" BIg photo of myself runing and walking backwards from Canterbury to Dover .
I will not write all the report but it starts like this
" He,s into the home straight but Dover Amateur Boxing Club,s county heavyweight champion Vic Matcham can only see where he has been.
Vic chose a rather unusual way of raising money for the boxing club.
The marathon began at the Canterbury Cathedral at twenty to five on Sunday morning in rain, and it was 10.00hrs when 36-year-old Vic still quite fresh, was reversed along London Road Dover to the clubs headquarters .
His eyes were that of his trainer Tony Zaman,Vic managed to stay the distance despite being lashed by rain and buffetted in the slip-stream of the passing lorries.
At one point he took a tumble ,but in true boxing style was down but not out.He soon recovered to step out towards his goal.
The headlines of the paper that day was the "The Ports New Lord Warden Installed, The Queen Mother.
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Well done Vic. That was no easy feat..taking an article written in 1846 and somehow managing it to be about YOU. You're a real genuis at ensuring that like ''all roads that ran to Rome'' you manage to make sure all threads are about YOU .
Marek
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Thanks for your remarks,Marek always good to read them.
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Interesting post, Vic. Yes, the thread does say: FROM THE OLD NEWSPAPERS - which is appropriate to Vic's, also!
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Thank you Mrs Hollingsbee and nice to see you back with us again.
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Apologies if I have already put these on the forum...
A FAT HOG: This is to give notice that there is to be seen at the Dolphin in Dover a very surprising Fat Hog... he is allowed to be the largest in the kingdom at this time ... he is 8 feet long, 7 feet in girth and 10 hands high; and is promising at present as if he would come to 40 score in a short time. All persons who come to see this noble sight, the lowest price is 1d; gentlemen and ladies, not under 2d... so remarkable the sight of this kind has not been seen in this county for many years. Likewise there is a stock of good beer in the house.
(Kentish Gazette Oct 3 - 6 1786, p.1 col.2.)
"On Wednesday last as Matthew KENNETT Esq. Mayor and G. STRINGER Esq. his deputy were going up Biggin Street they were surprised at the boldness and audacity of two mendicants whom they saw not only announcing their arrival by knocking and ringing at the doors but absolutely obtruding on almost every person who passed them. The Mayor, Mr S. with the most praiseworthy promptness immediately procured two peace Officers who conveyed the worthless rascals to the Treadmill. By the way it is a constant remark that Dover is the general resort for all rogues and vagabonds in this part of Kent and why? because no means are used to prevent their entrance. If a few such examples were made as the one in question Dover would be as free of mendicants as any other town. A great relief would also be afforded to the Parish Officers, who are constantly pestered by this class of people demanding assistance, which if not granted, are so abusive that it is necessary at times to obtain Peace Officers to curb their insolence.
(Kentish Gazette 24 Feb 1829 back page col.4.)
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From Dover Telegraph Oct 30 1912 p.7:
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The Plough at Hougham for £50 sounds a bargain.
Audere est facere.
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Good that you posted that, Kath. The two unfortunates have just been released from the treadmill, where they had been forgotten unto this day
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We could do with a few more treadmills at the present time, to cope with 'miscreants'.
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from Dover Year Book 1879:
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Keith Sansum1
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I recall an article of a very prominent Dover, before all his political fame was found in the then called holiday inn in townwall street.
setting fire to a room, when asked why he did it, he replied "the ghosts told me to do it"
he went on to be a leading county cllr (and nowt political in this as he wasn't a tory!)
but express could never find the story,
yet i clearly recall it in there middle pages
thats in the days i use to buy the paper every week
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Contracts for the Military Hospital:
Dover Chronicle 14 March 1863 notice:
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