Folkestone Road
- Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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3 June 2023 11:27381580Keef and others comment:-
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/drugs-litter-shoplifters-and-no-pubs-but-is-road-really-287800/"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson - Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
3 June 2023 13:11381582When an area gets an at the time deserved bad reputation it is very hard to change the public's opinion, in this case a lot depends on how you view those on restricted income or immigrants.
Many years ago we lived in an area that had a bad reputation. We lived there for many years but I can not remember any problems apart from minor traffic ones caused by large lorries travelling through the area.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
------------------------------------------------------------------- - Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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3 June 2023 13:25381583Fun Fact - It's quicker to say 'World Wide Web' than 'www'.
those on restricted income = poor people."The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson - 3 June 2023 14:04381585It's a shame what has become of that area. Folkestone Road has some very impressive properties that were once the homes of the well off and ambitious. Bit like Earls Avenue and Bouverie Road West in Folkestone. In Victorian times, well-to-do Londoners would escape there to avoid the smoke and enjoy some sea air.Jan Higgins and Ross Miller like this
- Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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3 June 2023 15:13381588Captain Haddock wrote:
those on restricted income = poor people.
Restricted income does not always mean poor even those on high income might not have much left if they choose to live the high life.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
------------------------------------------------------------------- - Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
3 June 2023 16:14381589and dont forget the traffic grid lockduring the day. made evan worse when HGVs drive down there to avoid TAP - 3 June 2023 17:48381590Jan Higgins wrote:Restricted income does not always mean poor even those on high income might not have much left if they choose to live the high life.
Drug habits are notoriously expensive
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But joking aside:
Clickbate journalism. I wouldn't mind betting that statistically there's more aggro in The High Street.
Growing up one of my best friends families occupied (and owned I presumed) one of those four storey houses near The Horse Trough. As did their neighbours. And their neighbours. And their neighbours neighbours. And then there were a couple of guest houses/hotels iirc. You get the picture. All of those back alleys were great as kids with pushbikes. I'm talking late '70s early '80s.
It's now thought of as bedsit land, though personally I've no idea of how true that actually is these days. I do know that a couple of decades ago a few addresses there were used as temporary holding spaces by The Home Office, which gave it a bad press nationally that it has never really recovered from (as said article notes).
Such is the way. Massive, used to be family owned, houses. Now flats or Houses of Multiple Occupancy (read bedsits). It was Vicky Park and London Road before that. Barton Road next? Just look at The Leas in Folkestone and some of those pieces of Edwardian madness. How many of those are single family places these days? Won't somebody think of the parking
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Anything to do with having to sell the family home to pay for care costs these days?
/rant
Have to add that The Priory totally rocks of an evening at the weekend and is the place to be imo. No pubs my arse.Ross Miller likes this - 3 June 2023 18:44381591Captain Haddock remember this
https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/vandals-smash-car-windows-key-8279209
My brother regularly walks Folkestone Road and never sees anything reported by KM…Ross Miller likes this - Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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3 June 2023 19:253815921. I provided an alibi to the police which they accepted.
2. Personally I blame austerity and the lack of youth clubs."The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson - Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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4 June 2023 16:12381606I think depends how involved you were in the areaALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS