howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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7 September 2010
12:0069149for those interested the authors will be signing copies of their book at the dover branch of w.h.smith on saturday the 2nd of october in the year of our lord 2010 betwenn the hours of 10. a.m. and noon.
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7 September 2010
14:3369164Just received our book, an excellent and informative publication, lots of interesting stories and facts.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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18 September 2010
10:5771447another signing will happen this coming friday the 24th between the hours of 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. at british bookshops(nearly opposite marks and spencers).
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21 September 2010
21:1471910 Another gem out of my father`s box here, and quite possibly never seen before, as of course wartime photography was restricted, and good quality film hard to get hold of. I`m assuming it could be Dover, but we may never know.
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21 September 2010
21:2071913Am I right in thinking that some of the photos in this book are also in other books, I am finding alot of the Books on Dover run along the same lines as the ones before it.
This is just apoint and should only mean that.
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21 September 2010
22:0571931Yes Vic, quite a few 'stock' photos and as Colin said cameras were banned so wartime images are hard to come by
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21 September 2010
22:0971932Colin - that could well be somewhere around Woolcomber Street as there were many cottages round there that we obliterated
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22 September 2010
10:4371971Picture of Colin's - I have seen pic of bomb damage in Coombe Valley Road which looks similar, will try and find it.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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22 September 2010
13:1071982kath
coombe valley road always looks like that.
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22 September 2010
21:5772057Yes, Howard!
Bob thinks that Colin's picture looks like a picture of York Street damage, and the houses appear to be 'flint ones'.
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22 September 2010
22:2872070Thank you Paul and Kath, and for your fine wit Howard. Kath, I`ll email you my picture shortly,as you may get a better view of it, and I`m trying to find my magnifying glass to see those flints. Well spotted.
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23 September 2010
08:3572086With all the photos you have Colin,you could do a better book then this one,with photos we have not seen before.
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24 September 2010
19:5072343 Thank you Vic, but not enough picture`s left now. This one of my father`s, may have been taken in the late 30s in preparation for a possible war, or it could`ve been taken in 1940 when he was on a gunnery course, for which I have his competance certificate, though I`m unsure if photography of this sort would have been possible at the time. Though wartime photography was strictly(?) prohibited, I have found over the years, a number of railway photograph`s taken by well known photographer`s in various books. Maybe it was just on or near strategic location`s that it was more restricted? Anyway, all on here can view a picture never shown in public before. are the building`s in the background recognisable as local and does this vessel look Royal or Merchant navy?
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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24 September 2010
20:1372348did anyone go to the book signing today?
i went past and saw two people dressed in second world war uniforms, my immediate reaction was that it was the governemnt were dropping heavy hints about the forthcoming austerity.
i thought to myself it will be spam, powdered eggs and no bananas for the duration.
it transpired it was just the co author drawing attention to the signing.
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24 September 2010
20:2572350They didn`t ask you where your gas mask was then Howard?
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24 September 2010
20:5972352I purchased the book this morning (not at the signing) and although not reading it in detail at present see a great deal of reference to Norman Sutton...Is this any relation to Terry !!!
Probably need to "delete" this entry as the book is a present to my dear Dovorian wife.
Howard... Was the two dressed in Second World Uniform Derek and Terry...Who was Mr Mannering and who was Sgt Wilson????
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24 September 2010
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25 September 2010
11:3172439Norman Sutton (Terry's father) pictured with Alf Buzan in 1913. Mr Sutton became editor of the Dover Express
Terry Sutton, probably 1980s:
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