Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,545
AndyPol wrote:
But then is River actually Dover? I have five work colleagues who live in River and Temple Ewell and they refuse point blank to admit they live in Dover! Don't get me wrong, I consider it Dover but they get so cross when I argue the point!
It's part of the area's problem.
River was a village like Charlton and Buckland before it. now it's part of Dover
Why is there a thread about a Sandwich by-election on this forum anyway.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
We are a village with our own Parish Council,
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
We have our own River sign
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Because the seat was for DDC .
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,931
Rivers part of Dover
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
No it is not .I think I will hire a hall and sit you disbelievers down and explain.Meanwhile in 1987 River elected its first River Parish Council.The District Councillors are not part of Dover .We donot sit on The Dover Town CouncilWe have our own Chairman and he or she wears a chain of office.We have two Village signs one each end of the village.We are supported by the KALC.We hold our own remembrance services.We have our own Parish precept .River does not contribute to the Dover Town Council precept thank god .
Dover Town Council elects it’s Councillors but that does not give then a seat on DDC .
The River Parish Council status was decided in 1987 by the Boundary Commission .The first Council was elected in April 1987 it has ten members.
I cannot draw a map on my computer .The ward of St Radigunds starts in Crabble Avenue .Which is within the Boundary of Dover.We are surrounded by the Parishes of Alkham,Temple Ewell and Hougham,and Whitfield .So you dis believers I’m willing to give you a lecture .I was trained as an Instructor ,
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,545
Politics, politics, politics
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Not politics just correcting a few error.Well today not much good for the Gardens .
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
When your smiling ,when your smiling:wink
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
The only people who ever say River is not part of Dover are those who live in River, nobody else really cares enough to seriously debate the point.
Maybe in future we should all be pedantic and call it a suburb of Dover.
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Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,257
Surely if it's part of Dover why would anyone call it River, come to think of it why do we have an an Aylesham or a Shepherdswell, is Temple Ewell part of River or part of Dover? (they are all very close after all). I've always considered it a seperate place hence why I use its name River, the village of River or River Village, most I know have the same view, but like Jan "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
I don’t care really .I know my rates are lower than Dover Town Council.I think our RPC do very well on the small amount they collect .
Each to their own .
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
Sue Nicholas wrote:I don’t care really .
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Now that really made me laugh, of cause you care that is why you always go on and on about River.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Yes Jan .But I don’t care about some of the comments .Some people just love stirring.Yes fifty years I have lived in River .
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
might as well call it rover instead.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Hullo Brian .Trust you are well .
Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,938
Sue Nicholas wrote:Yes Jan .But I don’t care about some of the comments .Some people just love stirring.Yes fifty years I have lived in River .
You can take a girl out of Essex, but you can’t take Essex out of the girl Sue…….can you?!
Do nothing and nothing happens.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
No I’m an Essex girl through and through.North Essex though .That has thatched cottages and all that.Taught to work hard and have standards.
Guest 3925- Registered: 28 Nov 2020
- Posts: 541
Ooooh I've hit a raw nerve about River haven't
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Probably why I've never heard of all the good things done by you Sue, because it was none of my business, as I live in Dover and not River!
I have to say, it's a bit strange to go on about what you've done for Dover when you don't live in Dover.....
Out of interest, what do River people put on their delivery address? Dover, River or both?
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Both
I was on the DDC Cabinet for Housing and Community.I was Chairman for four years.Iworked in all of the District .I dealt with people in CouncilHousing .Leisure etc.I supported getting the Water Sports Centre.Really the list goes on and on.I enjoyed working with projects at the Dover Musuem.