Manston Airport; Channel Dash; Dover Town Carnival
- 3 February 2012 15:12151271This is my latest NewsLetter
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Good Afternoon
In today's newsletter, I have information on:
Manston Airport Holiday Show
Channel Dash Association
Dover Town Carnival
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Manston Airport Holiday Show
SATURDAY 4th FEBRUARY 2012 • 11-4pm
A GREAT FAMILY FUN DAY OUT!
The Holiday Show will showcase what they have to offer for Summer 2012 as well as provide plenty of entertainment for the whole family.
On offer in the terminal building will be face painting, balloons, children's entertainment, food from different destinations, on-the-day deals and competitions !
FREE entry and FREE car-parking too.
Meet the Travel Companies
As well as showcasing whats on offer from Manston, tour and travel operators will also be available on the day to help customers book their holiday.
Representatives of Newmarket Holidays and Discover Jersey will be on hand to offer expert advice on the flights and holiday destinations available, direct from Manston Airport.
Don't miss out on this great free day out!
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The Channel Dash Association have sent some recent information regarding their 70th. Anniversary - here are the details:
The first event will be a Memorial Service at the Ramsgate Monument on Saturday 11th February, commencing at 12.25pm, followed by wreath laying, during which (subject to weather conditions) there will be a flypast by a lone Fairey Swordfish Torpedo Bomber aircraft from the Royal Navy Heritage Flight. Just prior to the service, HMS Trumpeter, a Fast Patrol Boat of the Royal Navy, accompanied by a Thames Pilot Launch, will depart Ramsgate Harbour to lay a wreath on the waters of the English Channel simultaneous to the monument wreath laying.
On Saturday evening there will be a formal dinner in the Officer's Mess at RAF Manston, from where the 6 Fairey Swordfish took off on that fateful day, 12 February 1942. At the dinner, Airfix will announce the launch of a limited edition 'Channel Dash' boxed set containing a Fairey Swordfish model and a Spitfire model (details of this are still being completed).
On Sunday 12th February we are holding a 70th Anniversary Memorial Service at St Mary-in-Castro Church, Dover Castle, commencing at 14.00 and dedicated to everyone who took part in 'Operation Fuller' from all three services. Again, just prior to commencement of the service, the Swordfish will fly past Dover Castle along the line of the White Cliffs in Salute as it makes its way back to Yeovilton. On conclusion of the service, our guests will have a tour of Admiral Ramsey's secret War Rooms in the tunnels below Dover Castle from where 'Operation Fuller' was commanded.
The most significant event to commemorate the 70th. Anniversary will take place on Saturday 12 May 2012 when we will unveil and dedicate our 'Operation Fuller' Memorial Monument at Marine Parade, Dover - on the seafront and in the shadow of the castle and War Room. This event will be attended by all three Armed Services and veterans. It is expected that as well as the Fairey Swordfish, the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight will also fly past in salute. We also expect that the Royal Navy will attend with a significant vessel to commemorate the dedication.
This will be a very moving ceremony with a good deal of pomp and ceremony, including Military Bands, Guards of Honour and Standards. Our Patron, Admiral the Lord Boyce will preside at each event.
If you can attend either or both events, please do so.
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Dover Town Carnival: have sent me a news-release and I reproduce it below; please do support Dover Town Carnival, they are great ambassadors and representatives of Dover.
Dover Town Carnival Ltd - THE SPIRIT OF CARNIVAL DANCE
Fundraising has started in earnest for Dover Town Carnival Parade on 8th July 2012 and to kick start the new years fundraising effort, Dover Town Carnival Limited are holding a "Spirit of Carnival Dance" in Dover Town Hall on Saturday 18th February 2012.
We are able to offer tickets at £25/person or £200/table of ten. Ticket price includes a 3 course meal (partly sponsored by Thanet Leisure) and entertainment from "The Interseptors"!!
Tickets are on sale at Country Brides of Faversham in Castle Street and Mascarada Fancy Dress in London Road. Mascarada are also offering a discount on Fancy Dress in keeping with The Spirit of Carnival.
The Town Hall being sponsored by Cllr Paul Watkins.
Throughout the year the Carnival Court are judged on themselves, as a Court and as a Tableaux (Court and Float). In the Spirit of Carnival we ask guests to consider their "Tableaux" and dress themselves and their tables in true carnival fashion. The competition for "Tableaux" is optional, however we will be offering prizes on the night.
The aim of this evening is to raise enough money for a Band in Carnival, last year we had two bands each costing £650. One of which Bloco Fogo was sponsored by Dover Town Council.
We will also be advertising our Court of Dover Selection which will be held at Qube Dover on Saturday 24th March 2012. This year all current court members entering the competition will not be eligible to enter the Junior Competition, which leaves the competition wide open to new entrants between the ages of 8 and 12 years.
The next Event the Court is attending is Deal Carnival Selection on Saturday 4th February 2012.
Further details will be available at www.dovertowncarnival.co.uk Further information from:
Michelle Sheppard - Secretary: Mobile phone - 07515 434649. Email - michellesheppard@live.co.uk
Kind Regards
Roger - Keith Sansum1
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3 February 2012 19:12151307some good stuff there rogerALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 3 February 2012 23:25151378Thank You Keith
Shame I don't seem able to send them to a wider audience as before.
Does anyone on here know about AOL exceptions lists and feed-back loops ?
Roger - 6 February 2012 16:24151904Jean and I went to the Manston Airport Holiday exhibition on Saturday and what a disappoiintment.
Didn't see anyone from the Airport, just a few stalls - one selling crisps and rape-seed oil made at Birchington (Quex House), face painting, a balloon-folding man, Heart radio and Newmarket Holidays and one that goes to Jersey.
I thought this was a golden opportunity missed; if someone from Infratil (the owners of Manston) had been there asking what destinations people would like to fly to, it would have been useful. Showing people round the airport would have been useful too.
They may in fact, not be able to fly to certain destinations, but knowing where people want to go to from East Kent, must be useful.
After March, there'll be no scheduled flights, only charter holidays.
I know that night-flights are important to any growth at Manston; a recent survey by a firm of consultants showed (somehow) that businesses wouldn't benefit by increased flights from there, so Thanet DC are doing their own survey/consultation to come up with the same answer.
Growing Manston Airport would be of great benefit to Dover and the rest of East Kent with relatively little disturbance to the fewest number of people as it is so close to the coast.
Oh - and the cafe had no coffee apart from a little instant and a few tea-bags left - and a couple of cakes; wouldn't you have thought that for an exhibition, they would have had more than one person there and enough coffee to last the day (we were there about 1.30). A very poor show.
Roger - 6 February 2012 16:48151909Roger you sound a tad disappointed there and so would i have been, growing Manston would be such a boost to the area can remember someway back flying to Nice from there, and it was so so easy.
Breakfast at home and Lunch in France.
- 6 February 2012 21:55151969Yes Jan I was a tad disappointed, not for me, but for the future.
Roger - 6 February 2012 22:21151976manston looks like no go according to consultancy reports, not enough jobs to justify the expansion.
on the positive side looking forward to the new statue on the seafront. - 7 February 2012 08:20151991The consultation outcome would be designed to agree with the view of those appointing the consultancy firm, wouldn't they Howard ? A bit like "he who pays the piper, calls the tune".
The benefits have been massively underplayed - for the whole area of East Kent, by people with a very blinkered view.
Why bother paying millions for a new Parkway station, when there'll be hardly anyone flying to/from there ?
No vision - but that's only my view of course.
The Planning Application is now in for the Fuller Memorial, so someone will have to pull their finger out if it is to be unveiled in May on Dover seafront.
Roger - 7 February 2012 09:06151995It is a great shame about Manston. But it has been stuck in a financial limbo a long long time. I think I will probably have mentioned the next bit before...but about 25 or 30 years ago when I was making investments it was sent to me as a business opportunity. I thought to myself...this is good!... a new airport in Kent awaiting expansion. I think it was under previous ownership then and the seeds were there...it cant miss.. thought I. The Capital even then was crying out for a third airport. For the life of me at the moment I cant remember the people that owned it then who were doing the expansion, or planning to do the expansion.
For one reason or another I let that opportunity go by...and when I look back, it was obviously a good move. As the great expansion plans and dreams never happened. There were brief flurries of promise..which made the news in London...but essentially nothing ever happened to the airport.
Its still in the same position to this very day. No movement at all in 30 years, someone announces a new destination once in a blue moon and thats about it, but clearly the appetite isnt there.
A great shame in my book but at a guess you can see the reason why there was no expansion, the people who live there dont want it. You could say that its another victory for NIMBYism.email: dover7@msn.com - Jan Higgins
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7 February 2012 09:38152001NIMBYism and apathy from the various councils and politicians of any party for not pushing and promoting Manston in the past or present.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
------------------------------------------------------------------- - 7 February 2012 10:16152012It does appear that NIMBYism has won the argument for the moment, but Infratil have not let their other major investments die away, so hopefully this one won't; but their argument, or perhaps their marketing people are not strong enough to sway Thanet DC or the people there.
Yes to night-flights; yes to expanding the business there.
Roger - 7 February 2012 11:36152031That's a shame Roger, a missed opportunity for Infratil, madness that there was no one representing the airport at the exhibition, sounds apathetic. I thought that's what the exhibition was for, to expand interest in using the airport
- 7 February 2012 13:41152049a more detailed take on the manston issue.
http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/Gloves-row-night-flights-Thanet-s-Manston-airport/story-15087503-detail/story.html - 7 February 2012 15:52152084Labour Council Leader Bob Hart said - and I quote:
"Both people under the flight path and elsewhere in the isle are affected by employment issues. But only people under the flight path are affected by environmental issues as well, so their comments should be given more weight."
So, it's official, there's only 2 people affected by night flights. (Yes I know it has been taken out of context, but they were his words).
The more flights there are, the more business there'll be: historic sites and tourist attractions (those in Dover too); Hotels and guest houses (those in Dover too); taxi companies (those in Dover too); ferries (those in Dover too) all sorts of businesses will benefit (those in Dover too) and of course all these benefits will help with employment too.
Part of the reason (most of it) that FlyBe didn't succeed was because the routes chosen - O.K. it may have been a problem with slots, but I doubt it that applies in every case.
The argument about travelling on to Gatwick and/or Heathrow is not valid as Manston is so much smaller and so much less hassle than those two.
Roger