Illuminated carnival this coming sunday the 6th.
- 3 October 2013 19:02246964courtesy of dtc website.
Dover's Illuminated Carival:-
Judging of carival floats takes place in Russell Street Car Park at 4pm on Sunday and the procession starts from the same place at 6pm. - 4 October 2013 07:13247017Do you know the route Howard?
- 4 October 2013 07:20247021Lets hope the weather holds out for it the younger ones still love carivals but I am pass that now.
- 4 October 2013 09:38247054no that is all there is lesley, nothing on our events site or the ddc one either.
maybe they don't want people watching? - Jan Higgins
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4 October 2013 10:22247059I would guess it would be more or less the same as the summer one but I have seen no road closure signs by Morrisons.
How strange there has been no publicity makes me wonder if it will actually go ahead. I am not really interested either way as I think carnivals are well past their sell by date.
I am now wearing my grumpy old lady hat.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
------------------------------------------------------------------- - 4 October 2013 12:10247068Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
- 4 October 2013 17:43247105this sign was outside the job centre in maison dieu road, there were no such signs anywhere near bridge street so i am still not clear about the actual route.
- 4 October 2013 17:50247107This is begining to look like the Italian market, let's have an event, but let's not tell anyone about it!Phil Wyborn - Brown at www.wybornphotography.co.uk
- 4 October 2013 17:55247110the italian market was featured here and in the mercury phil, in fact we were informed back in the early/middle summer of it and on the morning of the first day i took photos and uploaded them here by mid-day.
we need one of the town team to confirm other places they advertised it.
thinking back i believe there were banners put up at various points by the stall holders. - 4 October 2013 18:12247115Phil - Italian market was in both local newspapers 2 weeks and one week before the event, on DTC and DDC websites, posted in various Dover related forums on the Facebook, broadcast widely on the Twitter-sphere, posted on this forum and physically posted on sign vans on the approaches to Dover during the week of the market itself. The Town Team had no budget to mention for marketing the event, but still did what we could with what we had.
I'm sorry if the publicity did not reach you, fortunately a significantly large proportion of local and more distant populations did hear of it and came, making the entire week of the market a big enough success that the market wants to come back.
Before the question is asked over posters - posters around town are frequently complained about and, as Town Team is supporting the effort to reduce the amount of fly posting, it seemed a bit counterproductive to add to the number of posters around the place.
Before the question is asked about flyers - flyers were handed out in the Town in the run up to the Italian Market on each Tuesday Blue Bird Market Day in August.
This Candlelight thing has been posted electronically on a few websites, including the DTC one, and on the Facebook, I've seen it in one or two places on the web myself. I haven't seen any fliers for it, but then I don't really read flyers - take them out of politeness and put them in my pocket, I have pockets full of fliers, so I could tell you who has been advertising in this way down in Dover for at least the last 18 months since I emptied my jacket pockets last time
As far as I know, the organisers of this particular carnival parade have a very limited budget for advertising and are relying on the likes of DTC to post it on websites - something that DTC have done. - 5 October 2013 00:08247157Excellent post Neil thanks. Perhaps we can now stop banging on about the Italian Market please everyone? We have taken the messages back and we will certainly look at inviting our critics to come and help us next time. In fact there is an open meeting of the Town Team this coming Monday at 5.30. Marina Hotel. All welcome. Ideal opportunity for people to get involved.
The Italian market turned out to be good for Dover overall. Let's hope the carnival is.
- 5 October 2013 09:30247176I've read articles about the illuminated carnival in the Mercury last week and this week with all the details. Probably not in the Express - they are too busy looking for all the bad things about the town!
- 6 October 2013 11:30247312it seems that the carnival will go from russell street through market square to ladywell, turn right and then return via maison dieu road.
- 7 October 2013 19:57247492did anyone on here attend the carnival yesterday?
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7 October 2013 20:19247497I didn't,watched the Korean gp rerun. - 7 October 2013 20:38247502how many floats did they have there brian?
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7 October 2013 20:4124750322 howard,4 retired before the end. - 7 October 2013 23:15247522That's odd cause I watched the carnival and there was only about 7 floats and they were all beauty queens.It lasted about 7 minutes that's all.Eleanor H.
- 7 October 2013 23:22247524brian was referring to the korean grand prix eleanor
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8 October 2013 05:15247529Eleanor,was it worth the effort.that must have been the shortest carnival ever.
