I think Mr mcsweeny...you have an oblique sense of humour, or you like to play devils' advocate
It was so unsightly between the two swimmers arms...but, hey, think...only in Dover can you have a Tourist Box...that is....think

not actually a tourist box.....but only to push one persons' business

certainly funded by us....... the Council that is......public money etc.....
Manned by "volunteers"....so hardly manned.... everything is so split, unco-ordinated,and un-accountable.....no-one know their T's from their A's...
Have we a Tourist Board/Department? .....Always you need such information to be apart from commercial gain......because who knows what is being told?