Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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#1
For some reason not immediately obvious, they removed all the seafront benches this morning. If you were planning to sit down along this eastern end of the seafront and take the sea breezes and get the wind in your hair and the salt in yer bones
...forget about it...
They worked their way along and by the time they were finished this truck was heaped up to the brim with the dark wooden benches. No idea why?? Anyone?
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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#2
I'll add another picture while I'm on a roll..here we are..its all happening..
#3
NO!!!!!!!!! I love that slow walk and a sit down with the dog. What is going on?!
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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#4
I wonder if it's something to do with the Olympic Games. They left a couple but they had a full load so will probably come back for those. You can still grab a seat up where the 'wave' is Bern...on the fixed ones against the white swerving walls, but as for the rest..
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#5
normally if one needs repainting or sprucing up it is taped off until work is completed.
maybe it is just a total sprucing up job in time for the olympics, they will have to be put back soon as individuals have paid out for them to be there.
#6
Let's hope they remember where they all go.........
Guest 720- Registered: 20 Jul 2011
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#7
I read in the Mercury last week that they were planning to re-surface a large part of the promenade, so I guess that's the reason. It would make sense.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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#8
aha they removed the benches to stop people playing musical benches,for the fear of it becoming an oliympic sport.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#9
that end of the promenade does need a bit of work done, the paintwork showing the cycle lane and pedestrian area is fading.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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#10
Latest pic...hot off the wire...
no benches.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#11
no plants in the planters either.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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#12
Thats right Howard...it's looking a tad barren right now as you can see.
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#13
Lets hope its because they are planning a re-surface as Jim says above and nothing more. We need the benches gracing our seafront so we can sit and ponder the briny sea not to mention the people who have paid for them in memory of their loved ones. There is a gloomy but very dramatic pic on the front page at the moment courtesy of PaulB
that I would love to sit and ponder right now....... now wheres the bench.....
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#14
Jeez!!! times are bad, no benches and no plants
I note on the front page again, a statement to beat all statements 'The wettest drought anyone can remember' now thats an oddball statement if I ever heard one
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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#15
DHB are going to be doing some resurfacing work, which they promise to have completed before the torch event. Given the numbers being catered for at that there is little chance of the seats going back until afterwards.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
#16
Nicely thought through.....................and well communicated by DHB, not.
Thanks Chris, though.
#17
i hope they do replace them forgive me if im wrong but arent most of them donated and named after peoples loved ones??? so they will be replaced?
Guest 730- Registered: 5 Nov 2011
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#18
Yes those are memorial benches, the council doesn't even own them. I assume they would have informed the owners and will be putting them back at some point. We have two memorial benches along Deal seafront in memory of my mum and dad, me and my brother and sister paid for them and I would expect to be informed if they were taken away.
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#19
Too right Colin, that would be the respectful thing to do.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#20
it is the harbour board that charge for the benches in dover not the council like in deal.
