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• Guest 644

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  18 January 2010     21:2838190
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  I went to a museum of pencils once - if you want to go it's in Keswick in Cumbria, but I wouldn't make a trip from Dover specially. No prizes for guessing what they sold in the souvenier shop.
  
  http://www.pencilmuseum.co.uk/
  
  Mind you, a friend of mine sent me a postcard from Barometer World Museum in Okehampton. I guess he felt pressurised into going.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  18 January 2010     21:4938194
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  pencil museum???????????????????????????????????????
  i suppose it is for people easily lead.
  
  i can do the bad jokes as well phil.
• Guest 690

  • Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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  18 January 2010     22:1638210
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  It`s alright with lead in your pencil Howard, so long as you`ve got a rubber on the end.
  Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  18 January 2010     22:5938219
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  colin
  
  kindly do not open next years christmas crackers until the right time.
  
  
  mind you, bob monkhouse would have seen you as a protege.
• Guest 690

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  18 January 2010     23:3038222
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  Howard, is our newest member any relation to you, though without letters after his name?
  Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
• Guest 672

  • Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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  18 January 2010     23:3938223
  #66       report
  this thread is getting unbearable.
  Post 47.
  Nice pic Alec. the chap on the right looks a big boy. oh dem costumes.
  
  Rick, well what can I say. you always did go one better.
  grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
• Guest 644

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  19 January 2010     00:1638225
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  I've got a deeply fascinating collection of clay pipe bowls.
  
  

  
• Guest 640

  • Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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  19 January 2010     09:4438229
  #68       report
  Im going to try counting them now one by one
  email: dover7@msn.com
• Rick Jones

  • Location: Dover
  19 January 2010     22:1638306
  #69       report
  I am considering, although it will involve some serious thought and a process of contemplation, notwithstanding a bit of perusal and inner-query, a visit to the HAVERSTRAW BRICK MUSEUM. Yes. It's a museum. About bricks. And I want to go to see it.
  
  http://www.haverstrawbrickmuseum.org
  
  Oh by the way that is a lovely collection of pipes. I am an avid collector of icons. Observe below just a few icons from my wide collection. I thank you.
  
  

  
• Guest 653

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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  20 January 2010     09:3938342
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  Postings 61, 62 and 63 are the funniest postings on this thread - thanks guys, they made me laugh, despite being in the middle of another serious gout attack.
  
  
  
  
  Roger
• Guest 693

  • Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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  20 January 2010     11:0338350
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  On holiday in the Lake District a couple of years back, my wife wanted to visit the pencil museum but our friend Brian Rowland torpedoed that idea because it was too boring!
  True friends stab you in the front.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  20 January 2010     11:0938351
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  i know that i am going to regret asking this, but why did your wife want to visit the pencil museum?
  
  did she think it was write on?
• Guest 649

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  20 January 2010     13:5138357
  #73       report
  To put lead in her pencil or Andys
• Guest 690

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  26 January 2010     18:0438844
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  Regarding the pencil museum, if you like to visit unusual places you know your freinds haven`t been to, and if you`re on holiday in Germany, don`t forget to visit the manhole cover museum in Ratzeburg. I think you can get there by drain.
  Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
• Guest 690

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  26 January 2010     18:0638845
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  A drain spotter.
  Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  26 January 2010     23:2538877
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  have you no shame colin?
• Guest 690

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  27 January 2010     17:2038929
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  Actually Howard, they used to make manhole covers at the engineering works in Dover years ago. I think the company concerned was Gatic Covers? I have noticed different manhole covers over the years, mainly due to the fact that I`m always looking down for dog S**t.
  Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
• Guest 693

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  27 January 2010     18:3438935
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  Well, I think you'll find our Vic was employed there at one time...........
  True friends stab you in the front.
• Guest 673

  • Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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  27 January 2010     19:1338944
  #79       report
  Here is a nice manhole cover.
  
  I wanted to get it in before this thread goes down the drain.
  
  

  
• Guest 690

  • Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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  27 January 2010     19:4438951
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  I remember the name Elkington Ed, as there was a van in Dover with the name on the side. Can you let us know where you found this one, so that interested members on here may visit it? I`m actually finding unusual things on here quite interesting, which makes me think, how do you define boring? Serious on this one.
  Tell them that I came, and no one answered.

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