Seafront shelters
- 9 December 2013 15:19254976in a pretty awful state and a lot of work needs doing in spring to bring them up to standard.
some of the clientele don't help matters either
- 9 December 2013 17:59254988hardly a pane of glass left here
so much for the round the clock surveillance.
- John Buckley
- Registered: 6 Oct 2013
- Posts: 615
9 December 2013 22:31255005"so much for round the clock surveillance". So very true Howard. You`re also correct when you say that a lot of work needs doing to bring them up to standard. We could also apply that particular criteria of course, perhaps even moreso, to the deadbeats that often seem to inhabit the shelters! It`s even too much of an effort apparently for the low-lifes to put their old beer cans in the waste bin for Gods sake! - 9 December 2013 23:13255006i have never worked out why the overnight residents feel the need to pass water where they sit when one stride forward would mean just the odd fish incovenienced.
even a tidal surge would not be affected. - 10 December 2013 08:24255010The oul shelters deteriorate very quickly. Painted one year then in tatters the next. Waves powering over them in deep midwinter and yes indeed as John says there..they can be subjected to abuse from the unsavoury !
There hasnt been glass in that central one for a long time. You put fresh glass in, broken again soon after, its like the hokey cokey... and then slabs of it about to fall can be dangerous to kiddiewinks. Here is a picture from a year and a half back or so...no glass then either.
email: dover7@msn.com - 10 December 2013 09:07255017if i remember correctly that is your motor cycle in the foreground paul.
- 11 December 2013 08:30255085Well remembered Howard.Yes indeed it is or in fact was my bike...now have a new one.The Honda shown has now gone to the breakers in the sky!
Here are a couple of pics showing the seafront shelter cleaning process in action. An effort is made to maintain them but its a difficult challenge.
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email: dover7@msn.com - Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,095
10 June 2020 14:58363293Seafront shelters released from quarantine. The reason for the fencing was, according to PoD, 'to maintain social distancing'. But aren't we still being ordered to 'maintain social distancing'? So why has the fencing come down? And, more importantly, why was it put up in the first place? Anyone expecting a rational answer to such questions better not ask PoD, Al de Pfeffel or a government-approved scientist.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus - Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
10 June 2020 16:32363297probably opened them up for the poor drunks/ drugies and the homeless to make a mess in. - Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,095
10 June 2020 17:39363300Maybe, BD. Operation 'Everyone Out' to start soon.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52915913'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus - Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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11 June 2020 15:41363315Excellent news. Hopefully TravelLodge/Premier Inn will soon be free of druggies and tramps and I can start booking again.
Love holidays.
Hate bed bugs.
I well remember taking a load of schoolkids sailing, turning up on Dover seafront about 07.00.
A glorious day, the sun coming up and the shelter dwellers sitting in the sun drinking the first cider of the day in the sure knowledge that a load of well meaning idiots would feed them at the soup kitchen later.
What's not to like?
That's about as bad as it gets in the UK."The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
