Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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#21
Nice picture Kath of Britannia class No 70004 William Shakespeare, one of two of the class allocated to Stewarts Lane Depot in south east London for the Dover boat trains, the other being 70014 Iron Duke. Both were withdrawn and scrapped in 1967 from Carlisle Kingmoor shed.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#22
I have a true story to tell you all later when I have got time,it is about the time I came face to face with the Golden Arrow at the western docks but I was in a lorry at the time taking bread to the ferrys.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#23
please clarify vic, when you say bread, was it the stuff made with flour and yeast or the hippy version(money)?
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#24
Good one Howard it was made of flour and yeast,I worked for Gillberts in the late 1960s first job after my army days and nearly my last one with my meeting up with the Golden Arrow.
. It was on a cold a winter morning very dark and alot of flog about ,well I was crossing over the raiway track to get to the boats well i came off the road where it goes over the track and my lorry wheels got went down into the stone which was each side of the track and I could not get off,wheels just keep going round and round but not moving the lorry, just then the Gold Arrow came towards me along the track, luck would have it they stoped it before it hit me ,I was still inside at the time.they had to get a big crane to lift me off and all this took about two hours or more ,they would not lift till it was day light must say not one of my better days,when I phone the office to tell them why I was running late they were not very happy about it all.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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#25
Vic, I shouldn`t think that train load of passengers were happy either mate.
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#26
Vic, nice to know you were "in the groove" during your formative years.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#27
I did not aske them Colin come to think of it now ,you have just put that in my head all the years gone by and I did not think of that at all.Well to late now to start thinking about it.
We are geting back to my life story now,I had lots more happings with that lorry over the two years I was there,Even once I was crossing over the fair ground in Dover And was not looking at the hight of the lorry and as I went by I was taking all the lights off the front of the sideshows over 500 of them had to be replace and one tent top aswell,the good old days i have some great true storys that could be told.
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#28
It`s all interesting stuff to put out on the forum Vic. Each a glimpse, and gone forever.
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#29
My life has been full of happings and in the most great fun to look back on but at the time I did not think so.
#30
Where is the Dover fairground Vic? I've not heard of it in the 24 years I've been here.
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#31
The fairground was in Pencester Gardens Sid, as it is today. All the transporting lorries had Forrests on the side of them if I remember correctly, (2 r`s). Stayed for two weeks, bumping cars, big wheel, octupus, numerous side shows etc. An annual event we all looked forward to back in the 60s.
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#32
Colin Mr Perkins knows that it is just his way of trying to be funny about it.
#33
Vic, not the case old fruit. I'd not heard the phrase "Dover Fairground" and wondered if it was a different location to Pencester. I am not always cynical you know?
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#34
I am glad to hear that Mr Perkins please tell me the time you was not I must have miss it.(Sorry just a joke.)
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#35
Vic, as you are slagging off friends of mine, please justify your comments....
Do you have a planning application number (it is all in the public domain) so I can see if it is planning law, the planning department or councillors that are causing the issue? You keep saying get rid of the planning dept, but you haven't been able to back up anything you are saying!!
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#36
Just look at the Town ,yes i can back it up or I would not say it,but not on the Forum or to any of the Public,I have already put my case forward.(Next)
#37
Paul, some years back a potentially major investor in Dover was told the building he wanted to restore required a feature to be put back to it's original height. He did his research and found the original height and requested confirmation from the Planning Dept., that this is what they required.
They were shocked, as they were expecting something half the height.
Begged the question, why did they ask for something they hadn't done their homework on? Answer, incompetence.
There are other examples I know of, and I'm nothing to do with the place or the people there. No smoke without fire as they say.
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#38
AgainI have found support thank you Mr Perkins.
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#39
AgainI have found support thank you Mr Perkins.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#40
Thanks Sid - the point I am making - "some years back ".....
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Been nice knowing you :)