Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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4 January 2010
22:5936322Been up London all day today, and it`s been a glorious sunny Winter`s day up there. To my deep regret, I forgot to take the camera with me, and perhaps through being on this forum with all of the topics, I took so much more notice of all the tourists and citizen`s of so many nationalities, and thought, if we could only attract those numbers down here, (but on a smaller scale of course), we`d really be in business. Besides being the capital, has London got any shops or attractions there that would be of interest down here? I`ve always loved London, and just like wandering round up there and losing myself. And you don`t need a wad of notes either. What about the rest of you? I also wandered in WHS at the station, and found something to interest a few of you out there, and that will be my next topic. Coincidence, or was I guided to it?
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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4 January 2010
23:2436324you are right there colin.
i lived for 52 years there, probably the cheapest place to live anywhere.
just looking at the wonderful buildings and views from the embankment are enough for a day, even the museums and most art galleries are free(until the next election).
mind you i now feel more at home in the sedate environs of dover.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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4 January 2010
23:3036329Thanks Howard. Bit angry with the camera, so much snow on the way up, and the fountain in Trafalgar square was all frozen up, but despite it being very cold up there, the crowds made it look like summertime.
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Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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5 January 2010
10:4936351Glad you enjoyed your trip to London Colin, it is indeed a great city. I have been there quite a lot over the last year or so as daughter Briony is fully ensconced in Uni life and now living off campus in very costly accomodation. It's a very expensive city for student life and now second daughter Saskia is hoping to go to Uni there in September
I am hoping the weather gets a bit better towards the end of the week as we will be travelling up there again for the start of next term and I will now remember to take my camera!
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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5 January 2010
11:2436354I lived and worked in London for more years than I care to remember and loved it but didn't get to see so many of the great places that were on my doorstep. I moved to Essex in 2005 and now when I go into London to see friends, shop or for a meeting I do the tourist thing. It's only now I really appreciate it! Thankfully I am only a 36 minute train ride away from Fenchurch Street. This weekend we have some friends over from the USA and are taking them to the British Museum (somewhere I haven't been since I was at school!) Roll on spring when I will be out and about with my camera there again (I never leave home without some sort of a camera, it's my right arm!) Here's a few recent shots.
Tower Bridge (my fave bridge) through a pub window.
2 middle ones from Camden Lock market.
Bottom one is car mirror shot of the Christmas lights.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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5 January 2010
12:4336356As most of you know I was in london most of my working life and when it all ended last year i was some what sad,I have in the past worked on alot of the very high buildings and the main bridge,s ,Tower Bridge was one of them.I was never one for great high working but I had to do itbut the views you get of the great city are out of this world,on the real high ones you see all of london.
Guest 658- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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5 January 2010
12:5136357In April the beery boaters are doing the London ring the highlight of which, for me anyway will be going up the Thames from Limekiln basin to Brent ford lock in a convoy of two narrow boats.
beer the food of the gods
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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5 January 2010
21:3836460Nice pictures Jeane. I did some similar wing mirror pictures with the illumination`s in Blackpool years ago. Gives a different angle to the picture. Glad the rest enjoyed it. I should think it is costly up there ColletteB. My young daughter is paying a fair bit, and that`s in Rochester. Anyway, shan`t forget the camera next time. Incidently, one of the idea`s of this post was to do a few comparison`s with down here, regarding shops, entertainment etc, but again, on a smaller scale.
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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6 January 2010
08:1936485On your last line Colin, you say about comparing London to Dover, regarding shops and entertainment etc.
Some of our shops are National of course and some are local, most of them owned and operated by the (local) owners and run very well too.
Music is pretty healthy here too, with a number of local pubs having music evenings and week-ends: Louis Armstrong, Park Inn, Prince Albert (who are having TUFF - the Duo this coming Sunday, the 10th.) and La Salle Verte during 2009 had music evenings once a month, providing a meal if you wanted one.
If you know of a pub that has music that I've not mentioned, ask the Landlord to let me know and I'll be happy to publicise it as much as I can.
Roger
Brian Dixon
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6 January 2010
08:2536487roger,if i have rememberd rightly the fallstaf had live music fridays/saterdays.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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6 January 2010
09:1536492Thanks Brian.
Roger
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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6 January 2010
17:1036549Sorry Roger, regarding your post 9, bit of confusion I think. When I was mentioning comparison`s, it wasn`t what they`ve got and we haven`t, I was aiming at idea`s of what they`ve got, which we haven`t, but could try and get to improve what we`ve already got. The way I originally worded it could give two meaning`s.
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Guest 684- Registered: 26 Feb 2009
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6 January 2010
17:4036555As much as I hate talking Dover down, er, I think you may find the so-called 'London' has a lot more going for it. No offence!
A couple of years ago I heard a bloke in a pub saying, in what seemed like all seriousness, that Barcelona was EXACTLY THE SAME as Deal - except bigger. I trust said cove was sectioned no more than seconds later.
Next week's world city battle pits New York against Church Hougham. Too close to call.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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8 January 2010
12:2536779Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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8 January 2010
13:5936785Clearly,a few members on here took this post the wrong way. With other posts continually raising the problem of empty shops and other buildings in Dover, another member asked what could they be used for to attract people to them. This post is suggesting, looking for some idea`s regarding business`s and entertainment, which other places may have had success with and which we could use the idea here. I just happened to mention London, as I was up there at the time when I thought about it. Nothing whatsoever to do with comparing town/city size`s. And of course, London being the capital and a hell of alot bigger than Dover, you obviously can`t compare them, and London will also have alot more going for it.
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Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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8 January 2010
15:5436793Overheard in a pub in Dover recently (I assure you they're not my own words!):
"Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."
— Samuel Johnson
"When a man is tired of Dover, he passes his Harbour Board interview."
True friends stab you in the front.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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8 January 2010
15:5836794great I like that one
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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8 January 2010
16:0436795Interesting that Andy, as Samuel Johnson`s words appeared in a 1967 colour film about London, though the words quoted were, `The man who is tired of London, is tired of life`, and that was in the 1700`s! What would he have said today with so much more? The film was regularly transmitted on BBC2 as a trade test colour film.
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8 January 2010
17:4036802Well I have to go there monday - on the high speed train at 1044 for a 1pm meeting. I worked 10 years there and couldnt wait to get back to the seaside. It has many attractions - used to love the brass bands in Lincolns Inn Fields on a sunny lunchtime - but I wouldnt swap any of it for my Town and coastline.
I worked in Camden and even the kids were seeing psychiatrists to get over the pressures of over-crowding. I swore that my first child would be brought up away from that and we made it just in time.
On monday I shall be getting out as quickly as i (hope
to) get there....
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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8 January 2010
18:4536813I lived in Barnet and worked for Natwest at their London computer centre for over 24 years; I worked in 4 locations over that period (5 if you include Jersey where Marek now lives).
Northumberland Alley, off of Leadenhall Street; Woolgate House, next to Moorgate station -remember the very bad crash where lots of people were killed and injured ? Then Lothbury, in Bishopsgate, next to the Bank of England; then finally, Goodmans Fields near Aldgate station and Leman Street.
I enjoyed working at all these locations and in London itself, it was only the job I got fed up with in the last couple of years.
The hustle and bustle and pubs were great; Petticoat Lane market (Middlesex Street) was great fun - you could buy almost anything from there.
Sad to see what people like Fred the Shred did to my old company.
Roger
