Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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http://www.nationalwarmemorial.co.uk/
Interesting updates on the National War Memorial including a video under the Documentary heading
Should be an interesting few months ahead with the planning applications coming into DDC for Farthingloe/Heights.....
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Many thanks for that Paul. Very interesting indeed. The picture on the link gives us a clear view of what they are intending to do. Could get a lot of visitors coming to that if all goes ahead.
Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
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Really hope this goes ahead there are war memorials all along the the coast of France, so why not on this side of the channel.
Jan Higgins
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I agree
, this proposal would also help the town.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I would also like to see that come about,hopefully in my life time.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the history of projects like this does not bode well, i hope i am wrong about it would be a perfect place for such a memorial.
i have spoken to mr pegg at the last two summer western heights weekends and his enthusiasm is great but he did admit to coming up against intransigence in some quarters.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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You mean English Heritage? I believe the 'brick wall' is no longer with them.....
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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name and sham indeed, apparently they were mad keen on the idea when first approached then gradually lost interest when it would have saved a lot of time if they had said no in the first place.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I think it must be down to finding the big funds to do it.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Funding hasn't been the problem, it has been English Heritage being of the view that WW1 isn't appropriate to the Heights !
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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You know alot more it than myself Paul,I will have aword at our next meeting with them.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Is that because English Heritage thinks that WW1 did not happen or effect this corner of the UK that is the nearest to France.
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Not needed Vic thanks - discussions are at a national rather than local level.
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Been nice knowing you :)
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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For me the date to really mark is the end of the war which would be 2018
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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How about July 1, 1916, the date of the heaviest loss of life, on which 57,000 British and Commonwealth troops died?
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
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A Canadian Soldier "Memorial Site" for our WW1 & WW2 "Heroes" I have just posted the link
http://www.nationalwarmemorial.co.uk/ to my friends web-site they lost many Canadians over here and in Europe I know they will write to our Government all ready sent my letter lets hope this comes about. this is just a couple of quotes from Canada Margaret Rose Gaunt Dorothy .... if the names of all those from all the Commonwealth countries who have died for freedom can be found in one place I think it would be very overwhelming to see and I'm sure that anyone who does see it would never forget the high cost of freedom. I get overwhelmed each time I stop at a small town cenotaph and read the names of those KIA
Dorothy Krusky Margaret I so agree with you. When I was working on my book I felt so compelled to give honor to all the troops past and present. It almost felt like they were guiding me along the right passage. Then seeing the cemetery for the troops killed in action in Ottawa found me transfixed yet at peace for I knew the job was the purpose for each one of the soldiers. It truly was a defining experience and moment in time.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I think this (Dover's Western Heights) is the most appropriate site for a memorial to the Millions of Commonwealth people who died fighting for a free world.
It will also be of enormous benefit to Dover from a tourism and business point of view, but we (Dover) must have a system in place to make the Town worthy of all these visitors, otherwise people will soon realise that Dover is not the Town they'd hoped to find it was.
Roger
