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  For your info PaulB and anyone else who may not have known - (I have copied this out of the Mercury from when she died last year). I kept it because she was one of Dover's characters and should be remembered.
  
  Former Mayor of Dover Marie Hart has died.
  A trade union organiser in Yorkshire in the 1930s, she successfully campaigned for an increase in wages for women working in the clothing industry.
  When she first came to Dover on holiday from her home in Yorkshire in 1938 Marie said she was struck by the cleanliness of the town.
  She returned in 1946 and was then impressed by the defiance the town had shown during the Second World War and the spirit that still existed.
  She later recalled: "I was walking down Snargate Street and, as if in defiance of it all, someone was playing a piano in the old Hippodrome. The strains of White Cliffs of Dover were wafting down the street."
  In 1947, Marie met Fred Hart, who had worked on the cross-Channel ferries.
  They married in 1958 and lived in Dover's Dour Street. Mrs Hart became much involved in the life of the town, and was elected to the Dover Borough Council and then Dover District Council as a Labour councillor.
  She served on the district council from its inception in 1973 to 1987.
  Mrs Hart was chosen as mayor in 1979, becoming Dover's fourth woman mayor. At the mayor-making in June she called on Dovorians to polish up their town in readiness for the Installation of the Queen Mother as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports that year.
  She was elected mayor again in 1983. She was an enthusiastic supporter of many local organisations, including Dover Operatic and Dramatic Society.
  Mr Hart died in 2006, and Mrs Hart moved back to Leeds last year to be near her family.

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