Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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10 January 2011
10:5088387I see that a planning application is now is for a memorial to Operation Fuller (the Channel Dash) to replace the Waiting Miner
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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10 January 2011
11:0488388Interesting and a far more appropriate memorial for Dover seafront.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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10 January 2011
11:0688389Well the miner waited long enough, and it became evident that mines in Kent won't be re-opening, thank God!
10 January 2011
12:0088391Alexander please you will start Vic off
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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10 January 2011
12:0688392Mr Taylor you are right there we need to get the pits open again (1) For the coal (2) for the Jobs.
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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10 January 2011
12:3388397OK, I can see where this thread is heading already....
Any idea as to the design of the memorial? There is an Operation Fuller memorial at Ramsgate that was unveiled last year and consists of a large block with informative panels either side. A little internet snooping tells me the Dover Memorial is being organised by The Channel Dash Association, the plan being to unveil it for the 70th Anniversary of this action in which 18 airmen lost their lives.
Scroll down to near the bottom of this page for the Ramsgate Memorial:
http://www.royalnavyhistoricflight.org.uk/home/Brian Dixon
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10 January 2011
12:4088398vic,you forgot [3] for the money.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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10 January 2011
12:5788404Stop hijacking my thread with coal again please !!!
The memorial is planned to be a black granite obeliske and would be perfect for the site
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Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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10 January 2011
13:0388407Excellent Paul. A fitting memorial commemorating a heroic action - much more appropriate to Dover than the miner.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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10 January 2011
13:2088412Sorry about that it will not happen again,I also would support the memorial,it would look inplace with the other ones we have along there.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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10 January 2011
14:4688416This is the Ramsgate one:
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Jan Higgins
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10 January 2011
15:4388419I am not against the plan but it would be nice if something more pertinent to Dover itself was there instead.
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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10 January 2011
16:1488430The Channel dash is highly pertinent to Dover Jan, it went right past our doorstep and shore units (and others), engaged in the operation, were based here. I suspect that there may still be locals living in Dover who will remember it, in fact I think my dad told me something about it, I must ask him when I see him next. He was a boy in Dover during the war and was not evacuated.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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10 January 2011
16:1988433that one in ramsgate looks ideal to me, we definitely need something to replace the miner.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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10 January 2011
16:3288438I was thinking of Dover itself not the Channel area, as I said I am not against the plan but there is already a memorial in Ramsgate.
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Terry Nunn
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10 January 2011
16:3788440Probably breaking all copyright laws here!
From the application
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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10 January 2011
16:4188442Ramsgate was also the base for units involved in the operation so it is equally relevant to them, Jan. Dover being the narrowest point in the Channel, therefore the closest point to the German ships in the dash, with them within 'eyeball' and artillery range makes it just as pertinent and the Zeebrugge raid in WW1 and other WW2 actions in the Channel.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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10 January 2011
17:4288459I have been trying to think of something else that would be appropriate for the site and have decided on a memerial to those that died on the Herald of Free Enterprise, I know there is a already a memorial window in St Marys.
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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10 January 2011
18:5088475A valid and worthwhile alternative Jan, or addition....
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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10 January 2011
18:5988478rather interesting that we have a memorial for the people that attempted to enter our country illegally but not for the innocent victims of the herald.
