New book - Dover's Caves and Tunnels

• Guest 651

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  8 October 2011     14:44130296
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  Not had a chance to read it other than to see my name in the acknowledgements
  
  Another book from the legend that is Derek Leach OBE
  
  

  
  Been nice knowing you :)
• howard mcsweeney1

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  8 October 2011     15:01130300
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  looks like another christmas present idea, do we know if he is doing a book signing locally?
• Guest 651

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  8 October 2011     22:11130393
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  That was my evening sorted, read it all already !!
  
  122 pages long and profusely illiustrated it gives a good overview of how many sites there are in and around Dover - having been exploring and researching them for probably 20 years now (scary!!) and finding out more all the time, that is understandable.
  
  It covers the Western Heights, Castle, Air Raid Shelters, quarries, Channel Tunnel and various oddities in the area
  
  In all well written, but perhaps only slightly let down as presumably a lot of it was writtem from the experiences of others. There are a few anomolies, but there are things I have learnt recently that have changed the general know views of some of the history
  
  Despite this i would thoroughly recommend it
  Been nice knowing you :)
• Guest 696

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  8 October 2011     22:20130395
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  Derek Leach OBE signed some books that my sister purchased from him two years ago as a present for me.
  I mentioned his name as a source of information in one of my online Dover articles.
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• howard mcsweeney1

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  8 October 2011     22:42130402
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  always a good read alex, your sister looks after you well.
  
  i remember you posted some pics here after borrowing her camera.
• Guest 696

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  9 October 2011     01:09130406
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  I've got so many pics, Howard, of Dover and Dover's Garden, on my memory sticks. Some of my pics are top-rankers on Google images.
  Google British Independemce on Google images, and on the very top of page 1 you see two different pics of Dover.
  Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
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• Guest 650

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  9 October 2011     16:29130501
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  Aha! I'd heard this was on the way, and being spelunkerish I'll look out for it. Derek is giving a talk on the book at the Dover Society in November.
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