howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,820
Like a Wonkavator.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
pipe dream
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,171
LMAO!
It never ceases me the mad ideas, well meaning but very stupid locals come up with to 'bring tourists to the town'.
Here in Deal the latest mad proposal, in spite of the fact that almost all post-war public art has been crap, is a statue of Elizabeth Carter to tie in with her anniversary next year.
This is of course the latest in a long list of statues proposed to celebrate the latest discovery of a connection with the town by someone whose statue will obviously (sic) become as iconic as that of Nelson in Trafalgar Square or Liberty in New York Harbour.
Perhaps we could satisfy all the various groups by having a latter day version of Rodin's Burghers of Calais (Possibly renamed the Burgers of Calais to raise sponsorship?)
The tablea could show Elizabeth Carter possibly shaking hands with Norman Wisdom,observed by Julius Caesar, newly landed on Walmer beach, holding hands with Charles Hawtree, to celebrate Deal's gay community, and all watched over by the three Heroes of the Goodwin Sands to show the lifeboat connection.
Even I would travel some distance to see that!
Reginald Barrington and Guest 1831 like this
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
no more silly than having a statue of captain haddock with his hands around tin tins neck on deal sea front
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,065
I don't understand why I would want to (pay to) use it having visited the castle and now intent on visiting the town a short distance below (and along). Or is it an attraction in its own right? In which case it's going to be a rather short ride watching the view through glass that's likely to need constantly cleaning.
(Not my real name.)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
I think it is a spiffing wheeze of an idea but the problem could be that it needs Coastal Community funding and we know that our Town Council and Town Team are looking at the same source for their plans to bring Market Square and Biggin Street back to life - can't see both coming to pass.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
so howard,now that both are dead,when is the cremation.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,171
Is that the combined fountain and laser display board in Market Square of which you write Howard?
Perhaps your last line should read 'either' rather than 'both'?
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,259
New lighting, benches and a fancy looking fountain as the express calls it
Arte et Marte