Here is my latest Newsletter.
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Good Afternoon.
In today's newsletter, I have information on the following:
East Kent Railway Beer Festival this Bank Holiday week-end.
Kent Miners Festival Bank Holiday Monday
Your help required
Transit - Pulp and Rags
From the Front - Summer Newsletter of the Dover War Memorial.
Between Beacon and Shaft
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East Kent Railway are having their 5th. Beer and Cider Festival over this coming Bank Holiday - 24th. to 26th. of August.
There'll be a range of different drinks from across the county, also a Hog Roast provided by Alkham Valley Hog Roasts, a BBQ, train rides and much much more.
On the Monday 26th, the event will partner up with the Kent Miner's Festival, to provide one of the biggest community events in the whole country.
Visit
www.eastkentrailway.co.uk for more details
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Kent Miners Festival: This years Festival is on Bank Holiday Monday, 26th August 2013 and it is going to be held at Tilmanstone Colliery Welfare Club. From 10am till 5pm.
Address:- Sunnybank,
Adelaide Road,
Elvington, Kent.
CT15 4AN
2013 is the Centenary of Coaling for Tilmanstone Colliery and following the successful celebrations in 2012 for Snowdown, they are organising many special events throughout next year. This year's Festival will be another festival to remember.
Thanks to funding from: Eythorne Parish Council, £3,000; KCC's Member Grants, £2.500; Aylesham District Community Workshop Trust £1000; Aylesham Parish Council, £250; Dover TUC, £150.00. Without this crucial funding we would not be able to hold this free event.
Also, I am delighted to announce that we have teamed up with East Kent Railway, which, along with our Mining Heritage Exhibitions, will bring something very special to the festival.
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Your help required: Wetherspoons Banner Project.
Can you help raise the necessary funds, to transform this:-
to this:- (there were banners for this but I can't reproduce them on here)
The Banners will be promoting the Dover Big Lottery and how local residents can get involved as well as promote our tourism sites. It will also of course brighten up this shameful part of Castle Street.
So far this project has been awarded funds from the: Dover Harbour Board George Hammond Shipping, WCCTA, Dover Museum, Friends of Dover Castle, PMC Dover, Dover Society, Dover Roman Painted House, Transport Museum and local residents. Also supporting this initiative is: Hoteliers Group, and their partners, Dover's Big Local Start up Fund.
Funds raised are just over half way; they still need more help to finish the Task - PLEASE PLEDGE ANYTHING YOU CAN - by email,
adelinereidy@btconnect.com or send cheque to TWCDHGHG (The White Cliffs Dover Hotel & Guest House Group ) to Mrs A. Reidy, 1 Castle Street, Dover. CT16 1QH
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Transit: Pulp and Rags: an early booking opportunity for an upcoming concert to be held at Dover Town Hall on Friday, 11th October 2013, at 7.45pm.
This evening of contemporary classical music, poetry and film: Transit: Pulp and Rags, which brings together the work of four internationally recognised artists: composer Nigel Clark, visual artist Joanna Jones, writer and film maker Malene Sheppard Skaerved, and violinist Peter Sheppard Skaerved, who has been at
the heart of the collaboration among the artists and who will be leading the Longbow virtuoso chamber ensemble. The title of the evening refers to Dover's industrial and nautical history and the raw materials that result in paper and canvas.
Directed by Peter Sheppard Skaerved, the concert, which is the Grand Finale of Dover Arts Development's War & Peace programme,* comprises three newly commissioned works:
Dover Arts Development would like to share this occasion with the people who are making Dover's history today.
Transit: Pulp and Rags: 11 October 2013 from 7.45pm - 10.00pm. Doors open at 7.30pm.
Tickets cost £10 and can be booked at
https://transitpulpandrags.eventbrite.co.uk.
If you are having trouble booking, please contact DAD at
info@dadonline.eu or Joanna Jones on 07855832638.
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From the Front: Dover War Memorial have sent me their summer Newsletter. A very good read; there's even an obituary to my dearest Jean who died in May. I have attached their Newsletter to this one - it has been checked for viruses, so is safe to download.
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Between Beacon and Shaft:
A special opportunity to experience story telling with music in two of Dover's atmospheric historical buildings: The Drop Redoubt on Dover's Western Heights and the Grand Shaft, a unique triple spiral staircase - both of which are rarely open to the public.
There are two performances:
28th September 2013, 3pm - 5pm. and 29th September 2013, 3pm - 5pm
A one-off opportunity to experience storytelling and music in Dover's atmospheric Drop Redoubt and Grand Shaft: Between Beacon and Shaft, performed by Nicolette Picheral and Dover-based electric guitarist Colin Hinds, under the direction of Stéphane Vérité, is a specially written fable about maritime borders, particularly the Straits of Dover that the French know as "the Sleeve", weaving together quotes from historical archives and a fictional mysterious beacon.
The event starts up on the Western Heights in the Drop Redoubt's caponier 3 and ends at the bottom of the Grand Shaft. There is a limit of 50 people for each performance. The performance will be in English.
This event is suitable for walkers, as the venues are not fully accessible and you will need to walk from the Drop Redoubt to the Grand Shaft and down through it. Please wear appropriate clothing and shoes: the venues are unheated, the weather may be inclement and the ground is uneven. Please note that there are no toilets on site.
For more information please contact: Joanna Jones: +44 (0)7855 832 638, or: Clare Smith: +44 (0)77 66111 075
Have a good week-end.
Roger
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The Dover War Memorial Project