Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Anyone seen the film yet - sounds quite moving - I might save it til it come out of DVD to watch at home ??
This is just a little bit of an old postcard that I forgot that I had, with Dover's connection to the story....
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Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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#2
Not seen it yet Paul going to the stage show next month
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Guest 658- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Thinking of seeing the stage show in the evening after the army navy rugby match end of April
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Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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You will be lucky Guzzler months of waiting to get any sort of tickets,even the posh ones for you
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Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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#5
A war film with a horse as the hero? I think I'd rather watch Muffin the mule.
Sounds like Hollywood really have run out of ideas.
Jan Higgins
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#6
A book and stage production before Hollywood got hold of it.
This thread has reminded me of that other classic horse story Black Beauty which I loved as a child.
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was some good stories in b/b jan
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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#8
Fascinating pictures there again Paul and very topical. Yes War Horse seems to be capturing the imagination at the moment. Ive just seen trailers for the movie on the TV and it looks beautifully photographed....and as its by Stephen Spielberg I believe, well its bound to do well. And yes too a west end hit on the stage.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#9
What is the location of the two photographs?
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Brian Dixon
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#10
martin,looks like some where near the clock tower.
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I was thinking that Brian, would love to know more.
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#12
Yes this is town by the stretch of wall where the White Cliffs Boat Tours run from with an extremely high tide - sadly I know no more about the image
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The building must the one next to the clock tower that is currently occupied by a computer company.
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Yes that is the place, the former lifeboat house
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Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#15
Amazing pictures, seeing the soldiers winching the horse down into a boat, you wouldn't get that nowadays, Health & Safety etc. The horses seem to be at ease, different times.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Here's another 'war horse' - does anyone recognise the building in the background? It looks like the Heights in the background so would be Folkestone Road somewhere
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Again a fascinating picture Paul. That horse has such a noble air with clipped tail and erect head. He looks lean and mean but perhaps not a fighting machine. Horses are such flighty beasts though, one would have thought them unsuitable for war. I guess its not something many of us pondered upon until this recent upsurge in awareness.
I dont recognise the area myself but hopefully someone will.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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It does surprise people the use of cavalry in WW1 - apparently 8,000,000 were killed during the conflict which is quite a staggering number !
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Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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re the Boer War: prices of horses 'pushed up' :
Jesse BETTS, Eastry:
Two cart horses sold in a sale at Canterbury, the Boer War pushing up prices, one made 52 guineas, the other 42 guineas,
in Slater's Sale at Horse Repository
(Folkestone Express 3 Feb 1900 page 5 col.7)
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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that sounds a hell of a lot of money for those times, would be good to hear what that would be at todays prices.
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