howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#2
Time to tart things up and really draw the crowds?
Why not carves scenes or faces into the chalk?
Cliffs;Mitchelmore and Richard?
A battle scene or thee 'Battle' scene? [one up on the tapestry]
A facsimile of Stonehenge?
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Oops! Double post.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Obviously a tongue in cheek suggestion Tom, but Richard Mahony who operates the White Cliffs Boat and Bus Tours cleaned and smartened up the Grand-shaft, including the top area.
The ground-floor entrance area was painted white and really looked good and cared-for (yes, I know it really is cared for by the WHPS) and then he made teh heinous crime of having painted on the facing wall, three soldiers in the Napoleonic period costume.
Passers by saw it and wanted to enter; visitors saw it and wanted to enter it as well, but Richard was severely reprimanded and so the Grand-Shaft has remained shut - a massive shame.
So we won't get any cliff-carving done - Richard or Michelmore.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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not really that simple roger, the grand shaft is not owned by richard, discussions with the owners in advance would have resulted in something agreeable to all concerned.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Let's not go into that one yet again, the reasons were all said at the time... there are ways to do things and influence people and neither were done.....
I will post something else on a new thread which hasn't been discussed yet which will benefit the area....
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Tongue firmly in cheek, yes Roger.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Sorry Paul, I shouldn't have dragged that up again.
I just feel there is so much that could be done but "things/people" get in the way.
I know you and the WHPS work very hard all year round to keep the Western Heights looking good and if it wasn't for you all, it woukld be a total mess.
Look forward to hearing your new initiative.
The Town does need working on, but progress is incredibly slow to non-existant.
There's more open businesses in the Town now than there has been for ages, but there is no one helping them and no one helping the Town either.
The Town Council seem impotent apart from supporting the move of the TIC to the Museum - the planning application was validated very recently, I must take a close read of it.
Roger
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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Another new gate has sprung up. This time it is English Heritage who have put one across the track which leads from North Military Road to the little tunnel giving access to the Drop Redoubt.
Bumped into local legend Phil Eyden there who advises that it is to stop people parking their cars there and getting up to naughty things.
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I suppose it's a sign of the times but a pity. I remember as a young man just parking up with a flask and radio and watching the world go about its business as I contemplated and dozed off after a night duty.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
