10 February 2009
12:0615088I have just received a phone call to say that recievers went in there this morning and closed the place down due to unpaid rent.
The figure I have been quoted varies, but it appears that stall holders have been paying their rents, but those rents not passed on to those who should have had the money.
I am also told the market will re-open tomorrow. I guess with some of the stall holders with an agent in charge.
Cannot say I am totally suprised.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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10 February 2009
13:1015094Very interesting post that Mandie although we do have to be very careful about what we say here for legal reasons. But just to clarify...is Newmart the one in Pencester? I get confused with which ones which? If it is the one in Pencester, I thought that was recently revamped reborn revitalised and relaunched etc.
10 February 2009
13:3515096Hi Paul, yes the one in Pencester.
I have just been onto Company house website and the bit under their business number states. Quote" PROPOSAL TO STRIKE OFF" Don't know what that means exactly but I am sure someone will know.
lv me x
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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10 February 2009
13:4315097Didn't this happen before, about 18 months ago? I remember it was shut down overnight and reopened a few days later over a similar problem.
10 February 2009
13:4915098It did, and I do know the whole story there, but as Paul B says gotta be careful
Brian Dixon
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10 February 2009
15:4515101i was wandering how long it would take for this to happen again.just hope the next agent or wotever dose a better job than the last one.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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10 February 2009
17:5915106I had a look at the premises earlier, lights were off and the shutter was locked with signs pasted to both the shutter and windows saying business as usual Wednesday.
10 February 2009
18:0915110business as usual minus 1 me thinks.
I am trying to tread carefully for Paul B's sake
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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10 February 2009
18:2015112I just hope the cafe will open again it was a meetig place for some of the public at times.
Vic M
10 February 2009
18:3115115doubtful vic, unless one of the stall holders take it on, which they might, although we do have a lot of nice good quality cafes in town with places like Dovorian.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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10 February 2009
23:2315149I had heard about it being put into administration.
Apparantlty (so I'm told) the monies paid to the lease-holder wasn't passed on.
Sad for the stall-holders there - all trying to earn a crust.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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10 February 2009
23:2815152iknow i am repeating some other poster/s, but did this not happen before?
been rather sad to see it go into decline, the few traders in there try to spread out their wares as best as possible.
i feel sure that, credit crunch or not, dover should be able to keep a small indoor market running.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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10 February 2009
23:4115164Yes it did happen a while ago Howard; the lady who owned the cafe took over the lease, redecorated the whole inside and had some new stall-holders come in.
As Dover Loyalty Scheme Manager, I helped launch the new opening and it did well for a while.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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10 February 2009
23:5215167thanks for that roger, that is how i remember it.
was the lady in question a town councillor for a while.?
the name mrs davies springs to mind.
11 February 2009
00:1715171Howard the lady was never a town councillor. The people who ran it before did not go down the same way it has this time. I do know the full story on that not the story depicted by the more recent lease holder.
People will always tell you what they want you to believe
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11 February 2009
09:0315175Or simply just what they know, Mandie.
Roger
11 February 2009
09:1615176I do know. Without a doubt
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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11 February 2009
18:1615209After meeting the stall-holders today they were in a buoyant mood as they are looking forward to working with their new Letting Agents - Thanet based Harrison & Co. The Cafe at this moment in time is looking for a new leasee, I was told that there has been some interest to take over the enterprise.
I wish the stall-holders all the best for the future, as Dover needs the indoor market and they seemed to be getting a lot of custom whilst I was there.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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11 February 2009
19:0115221i hope that you are right barry, it is in a prime position and people like poking around market stalls.
there has always seemed a team spirit in there, with stall holders covering for each other, if one wants to go for a cup of tea or a cigarette.
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11 February 2009
19:0615227Well done getting that info Barry. Good to see the place up and running again and it seems without too much of a hiccup.