howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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It might be a great idea if they were to erect hoarding to cover up the giant telly. 100% improvement to the market square for a very low cost.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Absolutely disagree with this decision - events or not. Tourists love it.
I cannot see any real reason why any event should make it close; this is just a cop-out and should have been out for discussion.
It makes us look like we can't cope with having the fountain working and having people walk past: piss-poor if you ask me.
Roger
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Like Duh????? This must be the most stupid district decision of the decade!
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
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I notice the DM aren't allowing comments - wise move!
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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hands up all who think we will see it operating again.
best keep them in your pockets.
Can I speak!!! he he....
Nothing wrong with the fountain...and I will say why put such a thing in place if you cannot adminster it....This is common in Dover, very naughty as it is our money..
I want the spouting fountains.............everyone would have so much fun, you cannot ruin them with washing up liquid, they switch off easily...Try them out in
Folkestone.........by the Harbour..................
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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this subject will cause a lot of controversy in the town when people get to hear of it.
i do like the spouting ones that mr norman refers to but prefer ours overall.
visitors love being photographed in front of it with the castle as a backdrop.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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It's a shame that people don't respect it, I am local but have seen it full of soap suds on quite a few occasions and it isn't cheap to repair
Been nice knowing you :)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i was told that it would not need repairing if different jets were used.
the extra cost of buying these jets would far outweigh the current cleaning costs when soap gets thrown in.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Well thats your D.D.C. for you,it would not have happen if it had been in Deal.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Other than the overdue work on the Pier what other special treatment had Deal had - point it out and I will go and find it !!!
It may come as a surprise to some but we are part of the Dover District and also pay our council tax
Been nice knowing you :)
Yes, my understanding is that, like the wrong sort of snow for the railways, the fountain has the wrong sort of arms. The difference being that the railways do not buy the snow, whereas our dear local leaders bought the fountain. As Barry W-S says so succinctly: D'uh!!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the problem can be resolved bern - the fountain that is.
it won't be though the death sentence was passed when the town council announced a review on its future.
Spouting Fountains
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Forgive my ignorance, but what has the fountain, which is owned by DDC, got to do with the Town Council ?
I can feel another email coming on.
Roger
The Lord giveth.......and The Lord taketh away.....
and we can only pray for help
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i only wish i could remember the thread roger, but i started on with a link from a local paper where the town council outlined their plans for olympic year.
i clearly remember that "the future of the fountain would be discussed"!!
there is nothing much anyone can do with an inanimate object such as the fountain either than keeping it going or closing it down.
Exactly - what other choices are there to be made!?
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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If the council chucked a few litres of defoamer in the fountain (available from Delmaines for use in carpet cleaning machines) it would kill the suds.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
