Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,835
"It gives the cobweb effect", I have yet to see it as the fountain is never on when I struggle down to the Market Square.
Bern and Kath you have summed it up perfectly
. Seems a garden fountain not a public area fountain was installed.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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Guest 662- Registered: 18 Mar 2008
- Posts: 325
The fountain does seem to be closed more often than not this year, which is a shame because as someone else said the tourists who do come into town often take pictures of the fountain and the view from Market Square up Castle Street.
As usual we are given the usual flannel as to why it cannot be opened, cost cutting again as with the Toilet situation. Sooner or later the people in positions of authority who can help us humble beings actually make a difference will actually listen and do something other than posting a load of tired excuses on a forum.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,024
Not excuses just given out information.as to why the fountain is out of service .I m not in a position to argue on a public forum however I can cease to give out information re events etc.
If I can help in my official role at events Im always available
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
sue,if the arms of the fountain are expensive to replace.why not take the fountain bit out and fill it with soil,leave it barron for 9 months of the year so we can all watch the weeds grow instead.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
I fear this is another instance of officers telling councillors why things have to be done in such a way. Councillors should be ordering officers to find ways to keep it open on a permanent basis, not meekly accepting the usual elf 'n safety excuses.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
Peter you wlll never see that with the council we have in place at district,they will not move unless a officer tells them first.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,835
Post #63..............."I m not in a position to argue on a public forum however I can cease to give out information re events etc."
That seems a bit childish to stop giving out information.
Talking of events the Band of the Royal Engineers are at the Girls Grammar on Monday afternoon but I do not think it is open to the public, we will be watching them from the rear windows upstairs.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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Councillors need to grow a pair.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,024
Jan,
I the Dover Express there was an open invitation to the general public to attend an open day at the school.Im going to the afternoon session on Monday .
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,024
I understand the fencing around the fountain will come down next week .
Guest 662- Registered: 18 Mar 2008
- Posts: 325
Sue forgive my ignorance but you mention your official role and that you are available for events, which obviously is of interest to us. Perhaps you can outline for us how in your official role you are able to assist us so that we might take advantage of your offer for the future.?
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,890
PETER;
I share your view in post 65
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
- Posts: 2,868
.. and there was concern too about the appearance of the Market Square in 1913, but this was not the Fountain, but the OLD Fountain Hotel:
Dover Times, 17 July 1913:
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
no expense spared, the fountain fencing is now resplendent with bunting.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
- Posts: 7,819
Well..that is the funniest picture. is the council having a giraffe !!?
I can hear the guffaws reverberating around the dining rooms of the cruise ships on the high seas.
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,463
Surely somebody is taking the ****
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
i haven't photo shopped it, i had to do a double take when i saw it.
maybe we should bedeck burlington house with garlands of flowers?
Guest 684- Registered: 26 Feb 2009
- Posts: 635
Almost laughable, if it wasn't so utterly ridiculous.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
Guest 684- Registered: 26 Feb 2009
- Posts: 635
Actually Howard, re the Stunted Skyscraper on DHB Townwall Freeway, bedecking it with flowers isn't such a bad idea! ie: cover it with a massive floral awning, or something like that. Or how about psychedelic projections at night - like they did with the castle when they rebranded The Keep to lure the Harry Potter generation a few years back?
Might as well make a virtue out of, and have a visual laugh with (and at) Burlington House - before the concretely-cancerous crumbling carbuncle falls down or has its lucrative mobile phone masts removed to scenes of unfettered joy and dancing in the streets of Dubris in 2068.
Cheers all,
Andy
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