howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#2
Been nice knowing you :)
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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#3
I can think of a lot better ways to spend £2million, that is if the the money is ever raised.
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#4
Perhaps they will mark-out the prime cuts upon it...to tempt visitors from across the channel.
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#5
Yes Jan - they want it to come from private investors, but I'd rather see it spent on our struggling heritage....
Been nice knowing you :)
DT1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 15 Apr 2008
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#6
I agree Paul. I was up the western heights yesterday and reminded myself of what an undersold asset it is!
The thing that amazes me about this project is that anyone would think it is worth doing.
I'm sure that Mr Morrison is a nice chap and has good intentions, but what on earth does he mean by 'the right type of horse'. The invicta horse is merely a symbol and not a literal thing. Mark Wallinger's 'angel of the south' would surely be as symbolic, if not more symbolic if only for the publicity. Wallinger has always been obsessed with horses, his 1995 turner prize exhibition was full of such imagery. This association makes him the man for the job...however 'pointless' that job may seem.
We have some amazing attractions in our small corner of the country and I don't see why such an object should take precedence over them. Mark Wallinger's proposal is that of a super-real white horse; Mr Morrison's is merely a cutout of the invicta horse, articulated in the same way as the plywood models of a tyrannosaurus rex that you buy in craft shops.
Additionally, if it stands at 100ft tall I would be interested what the size of largest element would be. Galvanisation is one of those things people say to suggest they understand the construction. The reality of dipping or electro processing is another thing all together.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#7
All I will say is that I think it will become clear once the Western Heights/Farthingloe development plans go public next year as is on the land owned by the same people.....
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#8
Perhaps, given the make-up of our present government the ambition and the promised reality will both be large scale and work is sure to begin real soon.
Who knows, but the people of East Kent will, before the expiry of this administration, each and all have at least one hoof over their heads.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#9
i must be the only one looking forward to the arrival of the horse, i love any freebie that comes our way.
my only concern is who will clear up after it.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#10
Like the big screen, Howard?
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#11
I'm thrilled that the statue of our White Kentish Horsy is coming: to stand high above the White Cliffs of Dover, on Albion's Shores. Kent Invicta!
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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#12
Well first they imposed the giant telly, a major embarrassment to the area.
Then they thought that filling our streets and front gardens with stupid bins in order to save the planet but unwittingly emitting more dangerous and lethal carbon dioxide into the air which will destroy us all.
Now somebody thinks a giant horse will improve the area.
I mean how long has that rusting scaffolding holding up that decrepit in town been up for? Twenty years? Thirty years?
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#13
Philip, the telly and the White Horse are two different issues. The bins again are a completely different kettle of fish.
I think that as some people would like some kind of memorial somewhere on Western Heights, say to commemorate the soldiers of the WWars I&II, or the pilots of the Sopwith Camels that engaged Fritz at the Channel Dash, so too do other people like the idea of our Kentish Invicta Horse showing off on top of the White Cliffs.
There should be some tolerance here all way round, so we all get something we'd like to see.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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#14
what a load of manure alex,but never mind the roses will do well next year.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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#15
Paul Scotchie you are not joking re Capel le Fog!!
Look at it this morning. Everything above 50-60 ft has vanished.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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#16
yes i had my head in the clouds for a while.
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