Going, going, gone...

• Guest 651

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  28 October 2011     14:38133723
  #1      
  Wondered what was going on down the old Hoverport the other day, and they are demolishing the floodlight masts. Remember my dad used to climb up this one when he worked there to speak to us up on the pier !!
  
  

  
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• Guest 640

  • Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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  28 October 2011     15:56133751
  #2      
  Ahhh...very sad to see the decline of the old hoverport. I used to love the things..the noise, the smell, the spray...on a summer evening you could hear them coming from way out in the channel..that slow engine drone ever increasing.
  
  I remember one time down on the Prince of Wales pier on a lovely summers day..my daughter Briony got a drenching from the spray. We laughed. I managed to duck at the appropriate moment and remained bone dry because I knew it was about to happen. Isnt experience a wonderful thing!!
  She's all growed up now so she is...sigh...
  
  Sad to say I dont even have a picture of one of the blighters to put up at this juncture...all my very old pictures were lost through computer failures.
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• Guest 641

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  28 October 2011     16:58133765
  #3      
  A great invention, a sad loss that we don't have them with us anymore, odd to think that both the Hovercraft and Concorde are now museum pieces
• Guest 653

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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  29 October 2011     07:10133854
  #4      
  It is indeed very sad Barry, that such quality technology was beaten by costs to run and maintain them.
  
  
  
  
  Roger
• Guest 656

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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  29 October 2011     16:04133937
  #5      
  Ah! it's a sad loss indeed such a shame.
  
  Yes, Briony is all grown up and experienced now PaulB, but as you're not so nimble on your feet in yer advancing years, I think it will be you who will get the soaking next time
• Guest 657

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  29 October 2011     21:51134020
  #6      
  very sad.
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• Charlie Norman

  • Location: Dover
  29 October 2011     22:09134022
  #7      
  There is a very good museum at Gosport.....and you can still travel by
  
  Hovercraft from Portsmouth/Isle of Wight.............
  
  
  Very little about Channel Travel in Dover history seems to be shown etc....it mainly seems to be hidden or buried......................
  
  The DHB could expand and encourage an interest in their amazing maritime history..............all of their paraphernaliar would be in their vaults.....
  
  Some interest that would be if ever shown to the greater public
• Guest 653

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  30 October 2011     08:03134071
  #8      
  At a previous Port Consultative Committee meeting (I think it was) they did say about creating a maritime museum.
  
  
  
  
  Roger
• Keith Sansum1

  • Location: london
  • Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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  30 October 2011     08:09134074
  #9      
  it was lovely to walk along the pier and have such a great view of the hovercraft arriving/departing
  
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• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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  30 October 2011     08:25134078
  #10      
  roger,what they say and what they do is a differant matter,the museum might be lip service to keep the likes of you and me happy.
• Guest 653

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  30 October 2011     08:31134084
  #11      
  Quite possibly Brian - but they did seem quite enthusiastic about it. Maybe it was something they would do when the Port is sold.
  
  
  
  
  Roger