Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,302
4 September 2008
15:545648Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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4 September 2008
16:325649You missed me then Paul,done up in my best whistle,thought I sit next too some good looking lady Councillors eg Julie Rook and Ann Smith got soaked gave my umberella to the ladies and not even a picture,aaaaaaaaawwwwwww,still it will stop the forumites moaning about too many Councillors.It was a moving service and so well attendent,later saw W.S.Churchill come through the Train Station when I was doing my 'proper'Job.
Hot Dog Bobby was talking to some Tourists and was telling them to go to the Seafront and see the memorial,they didn't quite understand as they said we are Germanys,It was fun seeing Bobby squirm out of that,Keith who I had to show the way to the Seafront (its not on his beat) and I loved the way he tried to get round that one.
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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4 September 2008
16:425653Ah jeez thats a shame John. I missed a good photo there, but never saw yourself or indeed the lovely Julie at all. Saw Julie in the distance in Millers/ Marine Court later..I always try to get a picture or two of contributors as its my essential remit. But will catch you next time for sure. Got one of our Terry doing his thing but for some reason the camera focused on the Gateway and Terry came out too soft... but I think I got all the other contributors that I came across.
... but yes catch you next time John and Julie and Ann too of course.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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4 September 2008
23:405671JOHN
wHAT are you on about?
you always confuse me but that posting?
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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4 September 2008
23:405672JOHN
wHAT are you on about?
you always confuse me but that posting?
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,302
5 September 2008
10:365681For some reason Mike has moved it to YouTube
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Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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5 September 2008
13:185683Maybe he moved it because it seemed to be distorted vertically on Yahoo, OK now. Not sure about the title legend incorporating Winston Spencer Churchill as I think he likes to be known as plain Winston Churchill. Don Hunter introduced him as WSC and I think was politely corrected - see photo below where they had a little laugh. Here is the entry on Wikipedia:
Churchill's legal surname is Spencer-Churchill: his ancestor George Spencer changed his name to Spencer-Churchill when he became the 5th Duke of Marlborough, but starting with his great-grandfather, Lord Randolph Churchill, his branch of the Spencer-Churchill family has used the name Churchill only in its public life.
He made an absolutely excellent speech and was the perfect choice. With his physical resemblance, it was as though his grandfather was speaking through him. Particularly poignant since Churchill was acutely aware that the nation's very survival and subsequent progress to eventual victory depended entirely on the ability of the Merchant Navy and allied merchant shipping to maintain the life-line across the hostile seas: "Either the food, supplies, and arms from the New World and from the British Empire arrived across the oceans, or they failed."
Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
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5 September 2008
15:155684Yes had a brief chat with Mr Spencer Churchill in Millers afterwards, he was a journalist and has himself covered 10 campaigns in different war zones, and because of family connection a good choice.
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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5 September 2008
16:135688I think you will find you had a brief chat with Mr Winston Churchill, Jan!
According to Wikipedia, he was indeed a journalist, including covering the Six Days War, prior to becoming an MP.
Guest 667- Registered: 6 Apr 2008
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5 September 2008
19:045690I know an old mate, (sadly now not with us) who would have been so proud. He always used to say the Merchant Navy were the forgotten force.
They did so much in the Second World War with very little protection. This memorial is a fitting tribute but should have been there 60 years ago.
Even today the Merchant Navy are always ready when required. At the Falklands, the ships that took the troops all those miles then sat in I think San Carlos Bay while Argentinean planes flew over head.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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5 September 2008
20:205692a friend of my father was in the merchant fleet, and his vessel was seconded into action off of the coast of france
straight away.
i wish i could remember the ship and the battle involved.
in his final days(about 10 years ago) he wrote a brief report of what happened.
his wife had given birth to their first child a few days before his ship was called into action, so he had never seen the baby.
after only 2 days, his ship was scuttled, they all ended up in the sea, which by now was ablaze.
he was one of the lucky ones, a german crew managed to fish him out of the water and take him prisoner.
a few days later, in the company of fellow seamen, he was in a cattle truck of a train, that eventually terminated
at a border point, he described as arken, i assume he meant aachen on the german/dutch border.
they all tumbled off of the train looking the worse for wear, to be confronted by a top german officer, who wrinkled
his mouth with utter distaste, and announced that he was expecting "english gentleman", but all he had got was "a bunch of hobos".
he spent the rest of the war at a german pow camp, that did not conform to hotel standards.
to add insult to injury, when he returned home, his wife had run off with another chap.
that is all absolutely true.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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6 September 2008
07:035708
As ol friend Tom 'Guzzler' Mitchell had read I fluffed my image of voice over maestro Terry Nunn he promptly sent me a couple over. Many thanks Guzzler and here I am delighted to include it. Terry does a quietly effective job at all these events and is one of our local gems.
Some very interesting posts above, really enjoyed them. Nice wartime picture from Ed there with good info.
by the way
NOTE FOR ED.
..I saw the feature you wrote in the Dover Express 150th edition re the Dover war experience. I would be interested in putting that on my main menu if its not contracted exclusively to DE. I had read some of it and was planning to go back to it but inadvertently threw the newspaper out. Newspapers have a very short shelf life so if you are interested in having it there longterm so it can be read far and wide please let me have it. Well done Ed yer a star!
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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6 September 2008
17:085715Loved that wartime pic from Ed too, very striking indeed and makes one think about the reality of it all.I heard about that feature of Eds but missed it as Iwas away so would be great to have it on here.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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6 September 2008
21:255723some of those rabble rousing posters, would have been classed as artistic at another time.
that one from ed, really was eye catching.
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,302
9 September 2008
11:055818Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
