Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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7 October 2010
17:3974082 A lovely post card here from the Edwardian period by the looks. With the current front page feature, I thought it a good time to show how the pond used to look.
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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7 October 2010
17:4774083Been nice knowing you :)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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7 October 2010
17:5074086great photo, don't the little girls look stunning in their edwardian clobber.
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7 October 2010
18:1174089Paul, back in the days when local Mayors and councils could precept for the sums required to run local services and were not ruled by Westminster who took our money and redistributed it elsewhere.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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7 October 2010
19:1574109looking at the picture again, is that our susan on the far right?
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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7 October 2010
19:5974131Also back in the days that mayors were local 'millionaires' and invested a lot in the town....
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Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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8 October 2010
13:0974216wonder what happened to the whalebone arch?
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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8 October 2010
15:0574225Yes Howard that could be me in the picture .I was always a bossy little girl .
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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8 October 2010
16:0874230 Another original post-card here from the Edwardian era, this one appearing in colour.
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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8 October 2010
17:5074254Kath - I think I put it in our book (don't have one to hand) but I think it was the 1950s or 1960s (1965 I think for some reason) that the whalebone arch was too badly damaged/vandalised and was removed ?
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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8 October 2010
18:0474257so vandalism is not just a problem of our time then?
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hard to believe that you were bossy as a child.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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8 October 2010
18:2074264No Howard !
Take a look at the John Peverley book of the Western Heights and look at the condition of South Front Barracks when they were abandoned by the military in the 1950's and what they were like a year later.
Or when the Grand Shaft had a car down it and was derelict and smashed up in the 1970's.
The 'younger generation' get blamed for a lot, but we haven't had any World Wars in my time
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Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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8 October 2010
18:3974270I've got a photo from about 20 years ago of the fountain at the far end of the pond which had two pink marble columns at the side - I'm almost certain that one of them is now a proudly displayed feature in a local garden.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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8 October 2010
18:4374273quite right paul, the young are always talked down to by their elders, most of whom got up to the same things in their heyday.
just as an addon during the fifties teddy boys famously carried knives and took a lot of pleasure out of ripping up cinema seats.
Guest 702- Registered: 9 Jul 2010
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9 October 2010
09:0074336I'm relying on memory here so might have got it wrong.
I seem to remember that a house in Shepherdswell had the top of what was supposed to be the Connaught Park whalebone arch over a garden seat. This was a good few years ago.
About the car down the Grand Shaft. I remember being told about that at the time by the workmen who had the job of removing it, and the other rubbish. It was half a car (maybe the remains of a cut-and-shut job). Local kids starting dropping small stones down the shaft onto them to be rewarded by a stream of colourful language. The workmen gave up trying to chase the kids away, as by the time they got to the top the kids had long gone.
Weird Granny Slater
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Despite not looking its best, the pond does have fish in it. This heron gulped a plump gold one after posing for several minutes as a plastic ornament.
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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yes I have been going up there for over 70years not now because I cannot walk far but in the old days we was always up there and fireworks each year and the cafe,
Andy B
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When i was a kid there was still a park keeper,Charlie Holland i think,he was there around the late 70s,park was a lot tidy back then,last time i went there back in the summer it looked so overgrown.The firework display was put on by the Dover lions club,it was a decent display and used to attract huge crowds.
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Matey
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I remember Charlie Holland, I was a kid but we used to live two doors along from him in the sixties. I also remember those whale bones, I wonder where they went? Rotted I expect...
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Karlos- Location: Dover
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And the crazy golf course. I remember a miniature of the old ferry berth being part of one of the holes.
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