howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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yes indeed phil, i remember haynes wrote an excellent book that helped me service my first mark 2 ford escort.
Guest 713- Registered: 19 Mar 2011
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I was born in dover& very happy to be here & with a surname of "HUSK" where else would I be.
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Ha ha. He also wrote a history of the Dagenham Girl Pipers and then wondered why he didn't sell many copies.
Guest 719- Registered: 11 Jul 2011
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I WAS STAITON AT CONNOUNT BARRACK,S IN 1972/73 AND LOVED DOVER THEN BUT BEING IN THE ARMY YOU GET MOVED ABOUT A LOT WHEN I LEFT IN 1983 I CAME BACK TO DOVER TO LIVE AND A LOT HAS CHANGED SINCE THEN
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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no need to shout ted.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
We moved to Deal to run the Admiral Keppel back in the early 60's, moved to Capel for about 18months then to Dover. Pete was on the boats for around 24 years taking voluntary redundancy when it was offered. Ran the Ravens at Tilmanstone for 8yrs before retiring to Suffolk. I returned to Dover 8yrs ago as most of the family still lived here and saw how it had got the tatty look that so many of us now see and regret.
A pure coincidence I have returned to where I was conceived as during the war my mother was in the ATS up at the Castle and father was a soldier from Folkestone stationed there, apparently I was born in Maidstone prior to my adoption.
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I dont know much my family lived in st margarets when my dad was a kid and when he married my mum a few yrs later they were blessed with a wonderful, kind caring amazing daughter ( yes me lol) then we moved into Dover properly. I love Dover but like most get annoyed the way its left to wilt but a few diamonds are found within the town who want the best for the town and in general local people are nice . Ref to family here before me locally i read there was a pilot during war with the surname pile who was a top member of raf back then .
BTW GOOD TO HAVE YOU BACK PAUL X
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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Jan I used to run the Admiral Kepple football team for a year,my ex wife's family are well known in that area even Paul Watkins will know them.The Fosters!!!
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
hi John sorry for a diversion from the thread , but I missed you at the station I will drop some money for your walk on your return .
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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I was born and lived in and around Sandwich until I was 23 and wanted to buy a house and get married so moved to Dover,as I was already working here it was an easy choice. Having worked at Dover Priory since 1975 after 2 years working at Deal,40 years in 17 months time.
Moved to Dickson Road in Tower Hamlets before getting married again and moved to the suburbs of Buckland Ave in 2005.
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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Thanks Jan
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Guest 719- Registered: 11 Jul 2011
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Guest 730- Registered: 5 Nov 2011
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Jan, how long were you at the Keppel? We live in Rectory Road, opposite the church at Cherry Hinton, the wooden colt house. We moved there in 1961 and my parents stayed there for nearly 40 years.
Guest 665- Registered: 24 Mar 2008
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Paul, great topic, I will read it and post after this weekend is out of the way.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Just e-mailed a photo of the ATS on the Heights in WW2 - wonder if you mother is in it?
Been nice knowing you :)
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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I was trying to remember earlier when I posted but not very long, we were there in 1966 as we brought our tv into the bar for the final.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
Paul,
I have never seen a picture of my birth mother so I would not know her. One very large regret was not being able to trace her but I did not find out I was adopted until my mother died, something that came as a shock and a relief at the same time as she was a cow, my father died some years previously.
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Sorry to hear that Jan :(
Been nice knowing you :)
Forum members are a complicated and fascinating bunch! What a pleasure it is to be part of it. And, as we are on that thread, a part of Dover.