Guest 706- Registered: 25 Oct 2010
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#1
It used to be a nice area but I,like many,are put off using it as I don't like running the gauntlet of drug addicts and drunks that congregate around it. Add to that the horrendous amount of litter,pigeon poo and run down atmosphere and it's no wonder that a lot of the mothers that I know have stopped taking their children to a place that used to be a pleasure to visit.Many times people are using the library for sleeping in,too.
I was in there the other week when two girls,who the librarian had thrown out because they threw leaflets from a rack all over the floor,then went out and wrote their foreign names all over the wall by the museum entrance,
Deal library for me from now on,I'm afraid
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#2
Its corny, I know, but "Don't get angry...get even!" Or at least make a fuss.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#3
a standard thing there now, saturdays tend to be the worst.
on a happier note this school was doing an outward bound history lesson to the side of the library on tuesday.
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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#4
there was me thinking it was a toga party.
Guest 944- Registered: 16 May 2013
- Posts: 57
#5
I've been helping out with the Roman festival all week. Its been good fun and the kids have been having a great time, and well behaved for the most part (although one class who'd been to the gift shop and bought toy swords were a bit of handful!). Four more classes tomorrow.
But yes, the place needs a cheering up, and less of the drunks/druggies hanging around. We're talking about maybe organising some volunteers to tidy up the ruins outside and in the base of the tower (we'll need to get scheduled monument consent etc and it will have to be archaeologically supervised; I'll try and organise for later in the year). But the entrance is really a state as Penny says. The seagulls don't help but it is also badly designed, too cluttered, with too many places for drunks etc to congregate. Would be better to have had a simple wide ramp.
But good stuff goes on inside both the Discovery Centre and the Museum, and if we don't support them then one day they won't be there!
Andrew Richardson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#6
too right andrew the last few days have seen an influx of the young enjoying themselves thanks to the staff of the museum and discovery centre, long may it continue.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#7
Weeding followed by a jet wash seems to be urgently needed.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#8
The back of the Discovery Centre needs some maintenance especially as KCC will be moving their services to there from the Gateway.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#9
Vegetation around the side needs removing.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#10
I think that ivy is a vast improvement to a rather ugly building.
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Alec Sheldon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 18 Aug 2008
- Posts: 1,037
#11
It would be nice to see the 61 Bus stopping there on its way to Aycliffe. I am not very mobile these days and find it a long walk from Pencester to the Market Sq.
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Karlos- Location: Dover
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#12
Is there still a plan to turn half of York Street into a bus rank?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#13
The steps and frontage to the library has now been thoroughly cleaned up, weeds pulled up and feathers swept away.
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
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#14
Are there plans yet for a move to Whitfield?
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#15
Perhaps they will swap the letters around like Fawlty Towers.
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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#16
Red controversy device?
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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#17
Recent, I dyd cover over
Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#18
New flooring inside, jet washed and painted steps together with a revamped front door all make for an improvement thanks to KCC.
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