Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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As you know I live next door to a very big nursing home. A big tree has just come down and gone into the roof of the home but also in that tree was a very big wasp nest and they have got into the top floor of the home.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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They have now got their ladders out with a cherry picker going over the roof to try and cut the tree out of the roof I do not think anyone is injured but will find out later this has been going on from 0400hrs this morning .I have been told a lot of wasps about,now cuting the tree down, the trees are from the Park.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I have just found out the whole tree came down and is up against the wall if it had not been for that wall the whole of that tree would have hit the home,so alot to be thankful for and no one injured as I know of at this time.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I have just got back from being around the back of the home.That was some tree it has taken the wall away beween the park and the home and the top of the tree is up against or even gone inside the bedroom windows.The fireman have cut the top of the tree away from the roof, but if you go into the park you can see how lucky that home was ,it is all corned off but it will take avery long time to cut this tree up and make safe again and the repairs to home and wall.I cannot find out anymore about the wasps,I have taken some photos of what we saw and how it is now. end.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Well done with the reports Vic. unusual for trees to come down in mid summer but then again there was some strong gusting winds yesterday at times and as the trees are under full leaf...
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Thank you This is going to cost many £1000s of pounds to repair and take this tree down,I think they will have to get a big crane in to pull the tree away from the building,I do not know if that size crane will get into the park or come around the front of the building and do what the fireman did go over the top of the roof and pull it away.I think it is to big to cut up where it is and you can not see what the wall is like of the nursing home where the tree came to rest,my photos are not that good I am rubbish at taking photos because of my eyes.But you can take better ones because this is not going away for some hours or even days.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Thanks Vic.
Sounds like the residents of the home were lucky (??). They'll have to be rehoused until work is done I guess.
As Paul said, it is unusual for trees to come down in the summer; it was breezy yesterday, but nothing that strong.
Roger
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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I heard an engine running around 5.00am,however I then went back to sleep.My daughter and husband were awake for sometime wondering why the fire engine was parked outsid my house .Now we know why .
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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I have spoken to DDC Emergency Officer .Building Control are aware of the situation.
Jan Higgins
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I wonder if the tree was diseased as it is certainly unusual for trees to come down without some reason especially as it was not that windy yesterday.
That must have been a frightening awakening for the residents.
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Brian Dixon
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the positive side is that they now have logs for there wood burning stoves,
Guest 761- Registered: 10 Jul 2012
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The Dover forum would be of much more interest to the local populace if it wasn't expected that everyone on it knows one another. This thread sounds like it is of genuine local interest and many of the posters who know each other can work out what it's about but nowhere does it mention where this event occurred!
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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In the River district, I hope that tells you a bit more than it tells me Mike.
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Guest 643- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Hi Mike and Tom.
This is Applecroft Nursing Home which is at the end of Sanctuary Close at River, off the Lewisham Road. This is almost opposite the little row of shops on the left. It opened in 1999 and my dad was the first resident there. In the front garden there are two small trees that my brother and I had planted when dad died, one has a small plaque by it with his name on it. One is an apple tree and I think the other is a rowan but not sure on that one.
Hope this answers your question and I do agree with your comments, he'll never make a reporter
By the way - there's nothing on Kent online about this and one would have thought there would be if it happened very early today as stated by Matcham - hmm!
There's always a little truth behind every "Just kidding", a little emotion behind every "I don't care" and a little pain behind every "I'm ok".
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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good point from mike, there was no indication where it occurred until posts 13 and 14.
Guest 782- Registered: 4 Oct 2012
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One of my pet hates is that trees are not looked after at all. In that part of Kearsney Abbey they just get bigger and bigger, the same in Chiltern Way and specifically Whitfield Hill.
They don't need taking down, but they do need surgery. Someone will will ahve to die before anyone in authority deals with it.
Guest 761- Registered: 10 Jul 2012
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Funnily enough I was at Applecroft on Friday repairing the conservatory roof which had been damaged, in part, by falling tree debris.
Guest 937- Registered: 12 May 2013
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Didn't take much deducing as to where the incident was. Vic's very first post said that he lived next door to a very large Nursing Home - his profile put's him in River! His second comment mentions the Park; Kearsney Abbey springs to mind as other green spaces in River are known as the Athletic Grounds and the Rec to the majority of Dovorians. Voila!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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member's profiles are only viewable by other members pauline, guesstimates suggest that 10 times non members view the forum than members.
Guest 937- Registered: 12 May 2013
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I stand corrected, thanks Howard. Feel as if you are my mentor a lot of the time, lol. However, I thank Vic Matcham for his input at such an ungodly hour and still feel it wouldn't have taken much to find out where the incident took place from the 'clues'.