Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
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#1
Re: "Your Dover" p.19, a Dover-bashing letter from some Folkestonian named Andy Hodge is published.
Anyone else starting to feel a mite battered by this daily torrent of negativity from out-of-towners trying to feel better about their own shanty towns?
Guest 684- Registered: 26 Feb 2009
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#2
Totally agree with you, Andy - it's outrageous.
Dover-bashing: a national blood sport. Classic projection.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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#3
i thought blood sports were banned.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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#4
I dont know about the current letter referred to above as havent seen it as yet...but very recently I spoke to a chap who saw me in the town photographing the dilapidated shops, Ive used the pictures on here and many of you will have seen them, but this chap was interested in what I was doing. I told him I was from doverforum and I was just doing a story about our gradually failing businesses.
He told me his mother still lives here and he comes back to visit not very often but he likes to come back. And everytime he does so is appalled by the worsening degradation. He told me of times past when he was very young and living here. He told me a bomb in WWII hit such and such a site near the underpass and the house has never been rebuilt. He told me of the fire across the road from the bombsite and thats never been rebuilt either.
He told me when once upon a time he enjoyed shop A or shop B that used to be on such and such a corner..well you can catch the drift.
For people who live here day after day, the erosion to facilities passes by almost un-noticed...til one day you wake up and its all gone. But for returning Dovorians it can be quite a shock.
So some times the Dover bashing, if thats the right term, is done from a painful heart, that once remembers what it used to be like.
Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
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#5
And sometimes Paul it is done out of sheer spite by smug people from other towns.
Sarah
#6
What poster are they talking about? I read that letter and the other two on the same subject, and I think more than anything they were questioning the cost and reasoning behind the photo. To call Dover second rate based on a piece of art is a bit harsh though - I saw some very dubious pieces on display throughout Folkestones tri-ennial exhibitions!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#7
can someone explain what this is all about please?
poster?
photo?
piece of art?
Sarah
#8
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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#9
Thanks for that Sarah...Ive made your link LIVE. You can do that anytime by clicking the URL box in amongst the Smileys...and typing between the two little boxes.
#10
Yes, but seriously, chaps.........art......? I have a properly open mind about art, honestly, but........
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#11
Interesting story there PaulB about the returning Dovorian, true though, still it must be alarming coming back from time to time and seeing the dilapidation bit by bit affecting the overall look of the town.
Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
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#12
I actually don't disagree with the comments about the poster - the gratuitous swipes about Dover were uncalled for though. At least our football team is not second division in comparison to Folkestone, a town which leaves a lot to be desired despite attempts to rebadge it as San Francisco.
Sarah
#13
I thought the 'art' on the Your Dover page didn't look quite right! I found the proper image on the artists official web site. Link underneath. Think I prefer the first one I saw.
http://www.ebruozsecen.com/jb.htmlSarah
#14
Sorry - I tried using the url button and it didn't seem to work
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#15
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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#16
At least there is some good news. The old 'poundshop' next to Savers, which has been the subject of some talk due to the constant lighting, actually has people in it now busy sorting out the shelving and cleaning it up.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#17
about time to,any idea wot its going to be yet.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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#18
Here is the poster today on a rainy gloomy tuesday in downtown Dover. Note the boarded up pub on one side and the traffic thundering by on the other. Location Townwall St. Note the lack of enthused Dovorians gathered around it agog with wild eyed cheer.
Honestly I try to appreciate all art but this is a very plain white poster with a tiny circle in the middle, reputedly a gobstopper...
Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
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#19
Paul, I agree with your comments about the poster (see above).
My point was the unnecessary swipes at the whole town.
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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#20
You know what they say about God not paying his debts with money,well that earthquake today in Folkestone was a warning don't mess with Dover,
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
