Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Picked this up from The Folkestone Herald:-
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Ah! Folkestone, my home town.
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Oh my...that is a brilliant little film though, with some very good cynical humour and indeed it highlights some of the miseries of these coastal towns. One could Im sure easily produce similar for Dover.
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Gawd, it looks erm lovely, must book 2 weeks at the Burstin
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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As the joke goes, first prize a week in Folkestone. Second prize, two weeks in Folkestone.
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I think it's quite sad really.
I bet Folkestone's tourism unit aren't happy.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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it was on the news recently that a lot of money had been set aside for regeneration of coastal towns.
they all need it, their economies started floundering in the seventies with the cheap sun holidays.
most have not really made much of an effort to re-invent themselves.
last time i was in folkestone, there were roadsigns still for the marine station, funbeach, amusements , ferries etc.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Then Mr G came along....
Been nice knowing you :)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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such a pity paul that one indivdual can hold everything back.
there are similar problems in the thanet area, as i am sure that you know
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Roger , Folkestone don't have a tourism budget. Stopped it 3 years ago.
Watty
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Yes Howard and a similar person springs to mind for both Margate and Ramsgate seafronts...
Been nice knowing you :)
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And now has holdings in Deal , I understand.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
mmm seems to have lots of fingers in lots of pies,strange.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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paul/s
my heart goes out to deal people.
does folkestone need a tourist budget as much as dover?
mr de haan is busy building and renovating the place out of his own pocket.
that big hotel advertises the town in their own bumf.
the same hotel is a major stopping off point for holiday makers going by coach back and forth to the eurozone.
Guest 684- Registered: 26 Feb 2009
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Folkestone has a squillionaire artz/yawn sugar daddy - and well done them for that serendipitous quirk of fate. Not that their townsfolk notice, nor give a tinker's toss, of course. Hey ho.
But we have DAFC! WE ARE DOVER. WITH WHITE CLIFFS IN OUR HEART.
Forza Dubris! Viva Dovoriana! Crabble Army! Allez Hess! Allez Douvres! White Army! Nuff said.
(Er, soz, shucks; I'll go now...)
Guest 684- Registered: 26 Feb 2009
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Yes, the pernicious chipboard/Swan Vestas fetishists are on the march again. Plus ca change. Why?
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I understood that Folkestone's tourism although not supported (financially perhaps) by Shepway Council, is supported by a number of "private" bodies, including the businesses there, under the umbrella of Discover Folkestone, Hythe and Romney Marsh.
There web-site
www.discoverfolkestone.co.uk looks good by pumping up the good and ignoring the bad, but then isn't that what good marketing is all about ?
Roger
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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Roger
The TCM manager(yep they still have one) oes work hard and get in amongst it all and does a great job.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Thanks Keith - yes, his name is John Barber and I believe Tourism comes under his remit.
Roger
Guest 668- Registered: 13 Apr 2008
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Our new water sports centre is being built with the aid of Roger de Haan, amongst others.
Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
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Opps just happen to be in Folkestone tomorrw cannot think that little film has gone down to well.
But I can remember Folkstone as a child born and bought up there has suffered to just as Dover has.
Sadly all the coastal Towns seem to be in the same boat.