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Karlos
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,560
23 July 2013 16:09238462
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The middle one looks lke the Queen, but I presume it's not?
Sue Nicholas
- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
23 July 2013 16:25238463
#42 report
Vera Lynn, Carlos Collete 10.30am
Guest 710
- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
- Posts: 6,950
23 July 2013 16:28238464
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Karlos, from this site's News page...

"The three characters on Dover's portrait bench are:

Jamie Clark (22) who was born at Buckland Hospital with two holes in his heart, coeliac disease and severe communication difficulties. His determination and inspiration came to the fore when Jamie was selected from over 120,000 applicants as the town's first torchbearer on 18 July 2012 as part of the Olympic Torch Relay.

Dame Vera Lynn DBE has been synonymous with Dover thanks to the wartime classic song 'The White Cliffs of Dover', and her portrait figure is angled so that she is overlooking those very cliffs. Dame Vera became known as the 'Forces' Sweetheart' due to her popularity during World War II.

Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond series of spy novels, has strong local connections with the Dover district. He lived in St Margaret's Bay and was Captain of the Royal St George's Golf Club in Sandwich. Many of the James Bond novels and films feature locations in the district. Ian Fleming was chosen via a public vote."
http://www.dover.uk.com/news/2013/dovers-portrait-bench-immortalises-local-heroes
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Karlos
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,560
23 July 2013 16:39238466
#44 report
Thank you both.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
23 July 2013 16:52238470
#45 report
To be entirely honest and having only seen pictures I think they look awful. Three rusty figures and three lumps of wood, although I must admit the paving looks nice.

I also thought the middle figure was the Queen rather than the expected Vera Lynn.
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Guest 710
- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
- Posts: 6,950
23 July 2013 16:54238471
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What's that Jan; a blight on the tiles?
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Guest 756
- Registered: 6 Jun 2012
- Posts: 727
23 July 2013 17:06238475
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I thought the figures were to be incorporated into the bench, not stand alone. Looks a bit disjointed, wont be long before they are covered in rust by the sea salt and then crumble, have to be removed on health and safety grounds, leaving dirty great rust stains on the paving..................
Never mind, must have been money well spent.
Guest 715
- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
- Posts: 2,438
23 July 2013 17:20238478
#48 report
They look rather dangerous if any child should run into the edges of them.
Audere est facere.
Guest 756
- Registered: 6 Jun 2012
- Posts: 727
23 July 2013 17:27238480
#49 report
Should have used them as stencils on the hoardings before they put them in situ.
howard mcsweeney1
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
23 July 2013 17:38238482
#50 report
lesley

they are rust covered already.
howard mcsweeney1
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
23 July 2013 17:44238483
#51 report
all part of the green way as is this above, the cycle lane goes against traffic - keeps stopping and starting and the parking bays are not big enough.
Guest 756
- Registered: 6 Jun 2012
- Posts: 727
23 July 2013 18:02238486
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It's a plot to do away with cyclists.
howard mcsweeney1
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
23 July 2013 19:27238489
#53 report
you can't cheer me up like that lesley, besides sustrans think that cyclists are jolly nice people.
Guest 937
- Registered: 12 May 2013
- Posts: 145
23 July 2013 19:52238491
#54 report
Passers-by were convinced the lady was the Queen!
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
27 July 2013 09:58238802
#55 report
some cyclists are howard
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Guest 745
- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
- Posts: 3,370
27 July 2013 10:07238807
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Can some body explain to me why we need cyclists lanes ??

More taxpayer's borrowed cash spunked on nonsense

Maybe the small parking bay is for the plastic policemen to park the noddy car
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
27 July 2013 14:38238832
#57 report
kiethb,on yer bike.
howard mcsweeney1
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
27 July 2013 15:35238837
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not sure there is any taxpayer's money involved keith, sustrans are a charity.
Guest 697
- Registered: 13 Apr 2010
- Posts: 622
27 July 2013 15:36238838
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The figures are free standing so that people can stand alongside them and become part of the portrait, hence the name. They are made from the same material as the Angel of the North.
howard mcsweeney1
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
27 July 2013 19:58238845
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2 more courtesy of brian, i believe the chap with the beard wearing a white jacket is part of dover community radio.

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