Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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lowest bidder not always the best?
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Will be fascinating to see what our new pier looks like, at least we won't have the worry of who gets the catering franchise.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
Deal pier is bad still, but you get what you pay for, pay peanuts so that is what you get.You never see a bad job by the D.H.B. because they pay a going rate ,and have some one going round to make sure a good job is done.And I DO KNOW that because of all the work I done down there over the years.
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
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Vic Matcham wrote:You never see a bad job by the D.H.B. because they pay a going rate.
Mm. I worked a few summers in the 80s & 90s unloading baggage or directing traffic at the Eastern Docks. On one occasion on a quiet night bosses tried to make us temps paint black and yellow lines on the barriers and concrete bollards. I certainly would have made a bad job of that, intentionally, as the DHB had painters for such work. Thankfully the unions told them where to go, and we went back to the rest room. But DHB were ever full of such cheap tricks.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I do not agree
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,234
Weird Granny Slater wrote:Mm. I worked a few summers in the 80s & 90s unloading baggage or directing traffic at the Eastern Docks. On one occasion on a quiet night bosses tried to make us temps paint black and yellow lines on the barriers and concrete bollards. I certainly would have made a bad job of that, intentionally, as the DHB had painters for such work. Thankfully the unions told them where to go, and we went back to the rest room. But DHB were ever full of such cheap tricks.
Same at the cruise terminal in recent years when a port of call ship was in, they also got told were to get off. They also refused to refurbish the passenger access, so regularly had to use stepped gangways while awaiting mechanic or electrician to come out and fix it, at least twice in my time it blew hydraulic lines and dumped the whole tank of fluid in the harbour.
Arte et Marte
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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One hears they are filming a re-make of 'Boys from the Blackstuff' on Deal pier. Just saying.
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 345
Good luck to them but this sounds very like another Regent Cinema scenario. Perhaps they intend to turn it into flats.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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New Seating On Deal Pier In Latest Phase Of Refurbishment
Work is set to start on the installation of new seating on Deal Pier during week commencing 22 October – with work on repairs to the lower deck to begin the week before.
Hipperson, based in Walmer, have already started making the new seating, using sustainably sourced Iroko, matching the timber used for the restaurant building. Initially the colour is a rich russet but, quickly, this will oxidise to the colour of the restaurant timbers.
Teignmouth Maritime Services are currently making replacement grilles for the areas of the lower deck damaged by storms earlier in the year. Grilles are being installed, which will last many years, rather than replacing the timber planks, which are being damaged more and more frequently by storms.
The pier stem will remain open during the works, but the lower deck will be closed until the replacement grilles have been fitted.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Hipperson are certainly busy at the moment, besides the work on Deal pier they are working at Dicken's corner and have just been paid over 20 grand by our Town Council for maintenance of their office.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,951
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Nearly there!
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
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Been shut for a year but I guess that its pretty good for DDC when you look at the Regent
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Dover Pilot wrote:Been shut for a year but I guess that its pretty good for DDC when you look at the Regent
PLEASE! How many times do I have to say this. The Regent is private property and bugger all to do with DDC.
(However, were I a gambling man, I would put money on a planning application being submitted imminently and a two cinema establishment to be open by this time next year, in spite of the interference of the idiots from the Re-open the Regent Campaign .
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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This couple seem to have bags of enthusiasm and a strategy and I like the idea of dummy runs before fully opening. I remember visiting the previous incarnation which struck me as being a transport café stuck in the 60s it just needed the sullen girl on the counter to have a cigarette dangling from her lip to complete the image.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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We're getting there!
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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And it's dog friendly too, what with the plans to convert the old bingo hall into a cinema Deal could soon shake off its reputation as a deprived coastal town.
