Guest 722- Registered: 23 Aug 2011
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Yet another article this morning on the BBC website about our lovely white cliffs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19343382
Famous all over the world !
Andy
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Quite a comprehensive feature there Andy going right back to Julius Caeser and certainly worth a read. Akin as symbol to the Statue of Liberty in US terms are the White Cliffs. So there we are. Love those arial pictures we see from time to time.
let me see if we can match that BBC picture..yes here we are. This one was sent in to me by Joyce Banks. A lovely lady i bumped into at the Remembrance Sunday services...
A double whammy of joy...the Spitfire and the White Cliffs.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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A brilliant article thanks Andy and a great and emotive picture PaulB. A Mk V Spitfire over the white cliffs, where it belongs.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Good to have you back with us Barryw from your break..
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Thanks Paul.
Judith Roberts- Registered: 15 May 2012
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Thank you Andy for posting the link. We had a wonderful day on the cliffs last week. Do you get back to Dover much? I didn't go back for a long time, but in the last few years I have fallen back in love with the history and scenery and spend most of my free time in Kent.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i remember that picture of the spitfire over the cliffs - a real cracker.
Guest 722- Registered: 23 Aug 2011
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I get back every year Judith, usually wintertime when the travel is a bit cheaper. I always get to visit my old stomping grounds around Dover, even though my mother now lives in Deal. Sadly the castle is now closed when I am there. The white horse is still open though.
Are there any businesses with the name "White Cliffs" any more ? The white cliffs hotel has been renamed.
Judith Roberts- Registered: 15 May 2012
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Andy, we are just back from a trip to Dover. We have bought a ground floor flat in Victoria Park which we hope to use as a holiday home for a while at least. It needs a lot of work, but the main room is potentially stunning with lovely original features. We go in the White Horse too, but I miss the bar billiards table. I am glad to hear your mother is still around, I hope she is keeping well and enjoying life in Deal.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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"They are also the first place where the sun rises in the UK in winter," says Wiltshire. "This makes them the first place in the UK to greet the New Year."
That's what I wrote in my Eastern Heights article of June 2011:
"The sun rises over the English Sea and illuminates the British Isles, starting at Eastern Heights."
In another article, I also explain the meaning of Albion: it originates from Dover, but not from the Latin Albus, which by coincidence means white.
The name is of Celtic origin, and Scotland is called, in Gaelic: Alba.
Many of Dover's White Cliffs secrets have been revealed on my two blogs, so anyone wanting to know the secrets of Dover, and their connection to Britain, need only visit these pages.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#10 - tell us a secret then Alexander !
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Well one or two have been repeated in the article from the link in post 1, Paul.
The author must have got the information from my articles, about the sun rising over Eastern Heights and about Albion, because that is exactly what I wrote.
And I know for sure that I didn't copy that information from any other text, it came from me in its original form.
But it does please me, though.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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I remember there were endless articles about that in 1999, wondering where would be the first bit of the UK to see the sun on the new millenium - a place called Blair Cottage if I recall correctly.
Although a point in Suffolk is further east the sun hit Kent first because of the angle of earth's tilt at that time of year - took a lot of mathematical and geographical geniuses to argue it out.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Strange that then Alexander as I cannot see anything in that BBC article that isn't general knowledge
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Oh and whilst talking of 'secrets' what was the amazing information about Bradden that you came up with ????
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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I got there through sheer poetic dedication, Ray, on the grounds that Eastern Heights is in the East, Western Heights in the West, and Dover is the centre of the world.
That's why I was surprised last night to find out through the article in post 1 that I had got it right.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Paul, to your amazement, the Western Heights group included it in a letter to DDC, which we all signed. I did write at the time on the Forum that the information had been sent to a member of the W.H. group
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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How about just posting it and putting me out of our misery as we just cannot stand the excitement ??!!
PS - you will find that the Western Heights are in the south-west and the Eastern Heights are in the north-east
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Paul, to be quite honest, it is something that stunned me, albeit pleasantly.
This secret of Braddon is not unknown, but is widely under-documented.
It has far-reaching implications, in fact, to such an extent, that I am taking it within my stride. Having carried out there and then - a few moths back - the relevant research and double checked it, and having made further research since then, I will have to present it on my blog.
That what I made known to the W.H. group is only a facette of the equation, it goes much further than that. It goes beyond the British Isles.
