Alec Sheldon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 18 Aug 2008
- Posts: 1,037
Colin, I worked in the locomotive workshops with mostly Geordies and Scots with a handful of men from the local pits, fitters and electricians etc.
As you say, photography was for bidden.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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850,000 footfall is a good number that I'm sure the rest of the Town would benefit from.
De Bradelei's are in the Spring edition of the Discover Dover leaflet and I have sent them information on Dover Business Support and what I am doing and hope they will join up.
As De Bradelei's is only a short walk to the underpass, maybe better signage for pedestrians, showing the way to the Town and shops etc. could be strategically placed - but who would pay for it ?
Also better signage for motorists and how they can get into Town by the shortest route.
The trouble is that from Cambridge Terrace looking towards the the two blocks of derelict buildings either side of Bench Street underpass and beyond, is a site - thankfully a planning application is being worked on for this area, so things are moving in the right direction.
Working with the CDC (Coach Drivers Club) and the CTC (Coach Tourism Council) is almost a full-time job and everything I do at DBS, is done by me - no secretary for me, like at TCM.
There is lots to do and lots I want to do, but sadly, it can't be done today - or tomorrow, but soon.
Roger
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Alec, just saw your name online mate and forgot this one. #41. Very, very noisy there at that time wasn`t it? but like a graveyard now.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Alec Sheldon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 18 Aug 2008
- Posts: 1,037
Yes Colin, you wouldn't believe it was the same place. You know the sound that I cannot forget, those Demag cranes when they were moving up and down, it was for safety I know but it got on my nerves.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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That distinct sound can still be heard up at Thamesport Alec, on the Isle of Grain. I don`t think I could get any of my 6x4 photo`s on here of Samphire Hoe.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
Years ago it was part of my job to go up the arms etc of the cranes in the docks and weld and paint them and replace any steel or patch them up.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I know threads digress sometimes, but this has gone from tourism, tourism initiatives and De Bradelei's having 850,000 visitors a year, to cranes and docks.
Roger
Alec Sheldon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 18 Aug 2008
- Posts: 1,037
Roger,
Colin and I worked at Samphire Hoe (a tourist attraction) before it was a tourist attraction and were just comparing notes of how it used to be.
Vic digressed when he brought in painting and welding cranes in the docks for some reason.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
O.K. I am saying sorry yet again.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
Sorry guys, I just couldn't see the change.
Roger
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
- Posts: 4,150
Roger, whatever happen`s on a thread, always good to see the regular names, including your`s.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Perhaps Vic didn't cotton on to this thread?
It'll all unravel if we're not careful......
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
we do digress.
the problem is when people try to track down an article of interest and the thread title gives no clue as to where it could be.
i wish i knew the answer.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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That's true Howard; on the Plan for Action I was working on, I was trying to find the thread about the false shop-fronts in Tyneside, there were two threads that mentioned it and I found one, but couldn't find the other, so had to do some searching on-line and eventually found something.
I wonder who is going to work on the many other initiatives I'd started.
Academic now of course.
Roger
"I wonder who is going to work on the many other initiatives I'd started"?
Academic I would have thought. We all should know by now that Dover doesn't want businesses to thrive or move here, and it certainly doesn't want tourists.
Those with the responsibility for both have made it abundantly clear for at least two decades they have no gnuine passion for the place, else we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
- Posts: 1,266
Sid
Excellent post, as usual. Why does it always have to resort to barbed comments or stronger? Can our beloved leaders not see that we are desperate for fundamental change here? And does the price have to be an ill-thought out new town for Dover to prosper?
Pack your job in in Nigeria and stay here, eh? You have a clarity of thinking that's so refreshing and a way of thinking beyond the blinkered that is truly admirable.
True friends stab you in the front.
