Guest 702- Registered: 9 Jul 2010
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22 August 2010
20:4066753The original prints seem to have gone a funny colour, but this is the 1979 Carnival.
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22 August 2010
20:436675422 August 2010
20:4566756Great pics Ken thanks. Incidentally, none of those fantastic floats would be allowed these days as they violate Health & safety regulations. But, great invention and lots of hard work went into making those superb floats.
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22 August 2010
20:4566757Great stuff !
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22 August 2010
20:4666758River held its own Jubilee Carnival in June.
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22 August 2010
20:4866759All recorded on here for posterity Ken. I have some print`s even more faded than your`s mate.
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22 August 2010
20:5166762Amazing what can be 'Photoshopped' - some of my stuff is nearly black photographic paper, but stuff can jus reappear !!
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22 August 2010
20:5166763I also have prints of Dover Engineering Works Carnival floats from the 1950's & 1960's. Many taken by Ray Warner and, I believe Vic and his father may feature in at least one of them.
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22 August 2010
20:5366765Actually Paul I scanned these a few years ago using, I think, an older version of Paint Shop Pro. I now have CS5 and might see if I can do them again with better colours.
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22 August 2010
20:5766767Dover Carnival programme - Miss Dover was Gwendoline Wakefield age 20 of Seven Star Street Flats, Post office telephonist....
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22 August 2010
21:0566771you are right Ken both me and my DAD was doing it then and great floats to,but the DEW had the time to make them the boss would let Mr Grant and MR Westmoorland work on them in works time and Mr Jack Ash they were a good team and then we would join in the puting of it on the lorry the day before.
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22 August 2010
21:0866775Too many DEW pictures to load here, so a link instead:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishmm/sets/72157603241656885/
I believe you have seen these previously Vic.
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22 August 2010
21:1466783For any younger member`s on here unfamiliar with the carnival programme above, what use to happen was, your programme had a unique number, and all shop`s taking part in the event had a number placed on an item in their shop window, so you spent alot of time looking in all the shop window`s in Dover displaying a `Spot the Number` sticker to see if your programme number matched the number next to an item in the window, which of course you could claim if it matched.
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22 August 2010
22:2066844Wonder if I still have a prize waiting for me
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23 August 2010
06:4766855What a great idea Colin - and the idea being that they would see other things in the window that would attract them inside and spend their money.
Maybe things/events were better promoted then.
Roger
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23 August 2010
07:0466856Thinking about it now Roger, it`s not really an outdated idea. Three pound`s a programme, and chances of winning some M & S voucher`s, a meal for two somewhere`s etc, and not forgetting the smaller shops up London Road and beyond. It would open the town up.
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23 August 2010
10:0766884Good idea Roger/Colin, but the intial cost for the printing has to be found, and that on top of band payments, insurance, DDC signage etc., etc.
Sadly it is a fact there are many voluntary groups in Dover all chasing a diminishing pool of sponsorship and of the big companies here only the Harbour Board regularly provide some level of finance. P&O will give tickets for crossings, Norfolk Line and SeaFrance nothing and that's pretty much how it goes.
Tony Tse of Chapter 8 also gives when he can but that's about it for funding except for Dover Town Council who are incredibly generous usually.
I will also mention Florland Carpets in London Road though. They have given a small donation every year to the carnival, and it's such a shame others don't make even a small contribution too, £25 isn't much, but to volunteer organisations they all mount up and provide useful funding.
On the other hand, the chippie in Castle street wouldn't even provide some bags of chips to a visiting band who had travelled from Birmingham to perform for us.
23 August 2010
10:1666888I remember in the early sixties my uncle, Clive Sharp was involved with the Carnival Committee. We used to go down to the eastern docks to sell raffle tickets to people waiting to cross, and once to some who were driving down to enter the Monte Carlo rally. I do know that the Committee used to work and plan all year for the Carnival and it was a great time. Some years it was over an hour long.
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23 August 2010
10:2366892Diana, its not that much different now... I was at Sheppey Carnival on Saturday and stayed at the organisers house and the next morning whilst counting and sorting the collection there was a discussion running backwards and forwards about what to do next year, which floats worked.. infact if i remember some of it happened at 1am on that Sunday morning whilst its still fresh in the minds before we went to bed!!! . I can assure you that the entry forms have already have the alterations on, and there are notes on the computer so they remember what was good and what needed work on.
Loving the floats, just a shame that nowadays we have to walk the line up checking that everyone one has read the terms of entry, has got a fire extinguisher, first aid kit, no booze, and doesnt hinder drivers vision.. health and safety is a nightmare
Illegal street venders are also a massive problem, they take a lot of money from the town, are univited and if you approach them and ask for a donation they get quite shirty and threatened violence on Saturday
It isnt that much different in Dover... same systems in place , and same paperwork and compliance...
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23 August 2010
10:3866895Barry Here Again.
I'm sure that the ridiculous Health & Safety guidelines have stopped many a float being built and in doing so has cut down the public's involvement to a greater extent. I haven't heard of that many runaway blazing floats driven out of control by an injured drunken driver
