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13 April 2012
I believe this to be the very plane mentioned below. The picture courtesy of a Paul Watkins archive given to Doverforum some time ago...it shows Paul on the spot before the big flight a few years back, chatting with his counterpart in Calais, Philippe Blet in the striped tie, and one other.. A lovely picture too. PB.
For one weekend only, a replica Beriot XI monoplane will be on display at Dover Transport Museum, tomorrow (Saturday 14th April) and Sunday (15th April), specially brought to Dover from Den Haag in the Netherlands as part of the Harriet Quimby Centenary weekend.
We are incredibly fortunate to have this exceedingly rare aircraft on display in Dover, there is only one other in the country (at The Shuttleworth Collection in Bedfordshire) so please do come along and get up close and personal with the aircraft in which Louis Bleriot himself crossed the Channel in 1909 and that Harriet Quimby borrowed from Bleriot when she became the first woman to cross the Channel solo on 16th April 1912.
The Harriet Quimby Centenary Project would like to express their deep gratitude to P&O Ferries for their generous support of the Project in shipping the aircraft from France (and back again) free of charge, and we hope that Dovorians and many others from East Kent will avail themselves of the opportunity to visit Dover Transport Museum in Old Park Barracks, Whitfield, to see the plane and the other wonderful exhibits on display at the museum.
This weekend marks the beginning of the year-long project aimed at promoting Harriet Quimby's name so that the generations to follow will know her name and achievements much more readily than the current generation do. In the coming year we also hope to raise sufficient funds so that a permanent memorial to Harriet Quimby can be erected on the White Cliffs of Dover. Further details will be announced in the press, on local radio and TV, and on the local Dover online forums.
Dover Seafront is crisp clean and beautiful and most of all is enjoying a gorgeous Spring.
You can see this in the picture left taken just a few days ago. The seafront is our jewel in the crown and is ready to greet tourists and visitors on a wide scale.
So far this year we have enjoyed four cruise liner visits. The AIDA LUNA came three times and the MSC LIRICA once. Reports in our forum from our roving ever-so-sharp forumites suggest that... more passengers than ever from these ships are spending time here in the town.
Maybe this is something to do with reaching a new market. Although the AIDA ships have come here previously, the company appears to have upped it's game and their ships are visiting a lot more this year, and clearly liking us as a destination. Although Italian sounding, the line operates in and from Germany, and it could just be the case that tapping into this new resource is responsible for the increased amounts of passengers around the town. It is very good for Dover to have affluent visitors spending here....and hopefully liking it enough to come back in the future.
Update : Another cruise liner in on saturday. The Braemer, our fifth visitor this year now, sister ship to the one making the infamous Titanic journey at the moment... The Balmoral. PB
...Check out too all our Springtime pictures by our ace forumites in this link below...
http://www.doverforum.com/letters/viewtopic.php?id=9578
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I believe this to be the very plane mentioned below. The picture courtesy of a Paul Watkins archive given to Doverforum some time ago...it shows Paul on the spot before the big flight a few years back, chatting with his counterpart in Calais, Philippe Blet in the striped tie, and one other.. A lovely picture too. PB.
LATE NEWS: Bleriot XI Monoplane at Dover Transport Museum, this weekend only
For one weekend only, a replica Beriot XI monoplane will be on display at Dover Transport Museum, tomorrow (Saturday 14th April) and Sunday (15th April), specially brought to Dover from Den Haag in the Netherlands as part of the Harriet Quimby Centenary weekend.
We are incredibly fortunate to have this exceedingly rare aircraft on display in Dover, there is only one other in the country (at The Shuttleworth Collection in Bedfordshire) so please do come along and get up close and personal with the aircraft in which Louis Bleriot himself crossed the Channel in 1909 and that Harriet Quimby borrowed from Bleriot when she became the first woman to cross the Channel solo on 16th April 1912.
The Harriet Quimby Centenary Project would like to express their deep gratitude to P&O Ferries for their generous support of the Project in shipping the aircraft from France (and back again) free of charge, and we hope that Dovorians and many others from East Kent will avail themselves of the opportunity to visit Dover Transport Museum in Old Park Barracks, Whitfield, to see the plane and the other wonderful exhibits on display at the museum.
This weekend marks the beginning of the year-long project aimed at promoting Harriet Quimby's name so that the generations to follow will know her name and achievements much more readily than the current generation do. In the coming year we also hope to raise sufficient funds so that a permanent memorial to Harriet Quimby can be erected on the White Cliffs of Dover. Further details will be announced in the press, on local radio and TV, and on the local Dover online forums.
Dover Springtime...ready
Dover Seafront is crisp clean and beautiful and most of all is enjoying a gorgeous Spring. You can see this in the picture left taken just a few days ago. The seafront is our jewel in the crown and is ready to greet tourists and visitors on a wide scale.
So far this year we have enjoyed four cruise liner visits. The AIDA LUNA came three times and the MSC LIRICA once. Reports in our forum from our roving ever-so-sharp forumites suggest that...
Maybe this is something to do with reaching a new market. Although the AIDA ships have come here previously, the company appears to have upped it's game and their ships are visiting a lot more this year, and clearly liking us as a destination. Although Italian sounding, the line operates in and from Germany, and it could just be the case that tapping into this new resource is responsible for the increased amounts of passengers around the town. It is very good for Dover to have affluent visitors spending here....and hopefully liking it enough to come back in the future.
Update : Another cruise liner in on saturday. The Braemer, our fifth visitor this year now, sister ship to the one making the infamous Titanic journey at the moment... The Balmoral. PB
...Check out too all our Springtime pictures by our ace forumites in this link below...
http://www.doverforum.com/letters/viewtopic.php?id=9578