Olympic Torch buzz - it's coming, it's very near...
- 18 July 2012 14:32183447Great crowds to watch the Olympic Torch come through on a very blustery Sandgate seafront this lunchtime. Absolutely buzzing.
Also lovely to see a real and heartfelt charm offensive by the motorcycle cops from the Metropolitan and Kent Police in the cavalcade.
If this is a snapshot of the event that's coming Dover's way tonight, and to Deal tomorrow, then it's going to be great.
So happy that the visual drama and beauty of Dover's seafront is being used as a major Olympic Torch Relay venue tonight; its significance - viz. Olympics 1948 and historically, internationally - deserves no less.
Cheers all and enjoy,
Andy - 18 July 2012 15:25183454Just heard a rumour of an overturned car on York Street/Folkestone Road roundabout. Not great timing if true.
- Brian Dixon
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18 July 2012 16:17183466oh dear i hope no one was hurt. - 18 July 2012 16:27183468Yep, little hatch back sitting on its roof. It was there.
- Jan Higgins
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18 July 2012 18:25183473I hope nobody was hurt, it seems a rather drastic way to close the road though.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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18 July 2012 18:37183475any excuse jan,but just plausable. - 18 July 2012 19:27183479I cheated and watched it on TV
- 18 July 2012 19:45183481despite the weather a massive turn out of dovorians to greet the torch.
- 18 July 2012 19:47183482That's our taxes going up in smoke you're clapping.
Humbug. - 18 July 2012 19:55183484even the fountain was operating and unfenced.
most impressed by the number of babies and toddlers brought along by parents so that their offspring could say in later life that they have seen the torch.
a chance for a family get together for some.
- 18 July 2012 20:46183489Looks like a great turn out
- 18 July 2012 21:44183494indeed it was jeane everybody that is anybody was in attendance.
if you look closely you may spot philip sporting a union jack bowler hat and waving a flag. - Jan Higgins
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18 July 2012 21:52183497Some of the family went to watch but like Penny I watched the tv and internet.
Have I missed something all those people and the the unfenced fountain playing, so why is it turned off for other events when there are very few people around.
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19 July 2012 05:45183511a good question jan,if they can this time,why cant they do it all the time. - 19 July 2012 13:28183561Some photos from Victoria Park showing the torch passing on the way up Castle Hill Road to the Castle and then back down again. Good turnout of the local residents despite the rain and a blustery wind.
The torch runner waiting patiently in the steady drizzle and being accosted by my Canadian sister-in-law Annette.
The torch runner with my granddaughter Nicole, taken by Annette so the top of the torch and his head is missing! I believe he is a discus thrower and he was very good with the crowd, signing frisbees handed out by the Coca Cola coach.
The young lady who ran up the hill handing over the flame.
The torch returning down the hill after having been to Dover Castle.
My wife and granddaughters sheltering in the telephone box whilst waiting for the torch to come back down the hill!
- 19 July 2012 14:35183570Picture gallery of torch's progress through East Kent...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/gallery/2012/jul/18/olympic-torch-relay-in-pictures#/?picture=393299282&index=0Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 19 July 2012 19:31183606I was very pleased to see the fountain operating and not fenced in. I haven't heard of anyone hurting themselves; I hope that means that we can keep it operating - mind you there aren't any more big events now for Dover: are there ?
Roger - 19 July 2012 20:27183625the town council said they had a packed programme of events for the summer roger.
should all be coming up soon and if my memory is correct the fountain is magically transformed into a water feature in october. - 19 July 2012 20:38183629http://rnli.org/NewsCentre/Pages/Dover-RNLI-lifeboat-volunteers-help-carry-the-Olympic-Torch-into-Dover.aspx?utm_source=rnli-homepage&utm_medium=feature-panel&utm_campaign=1907-torch-dover
Video worth a watch, photos also very goodKeeps politics to myself - 19 July 2012 22:12183637I feel a touch of 'The Emperor's New Clothes' syndrome here. The town is really in the doldrums (thank you DDC), but we can afford to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds on tarting the old town up for the TV cameras! It is more important that we are not over awed by the Olympic facade, but get our Council to sort out the real problems addressing this town that they have created!
