Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,059
Knowing that Chris Packham et al are in Deal will certainly keep my purse firmly in Dover.
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,051
Weird Granny Slater wrote:Knowing that Chris Packham et al are in Deal will certainly keep my purse firmly in Dover.
One can buy his T-shirts online, WGS. More accurately, one can buy T-shirts from him online.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,059
Too much information, B.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
- Posts: 1,072
Do not know any of them.
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,051
Weird Granny Slater wrote:Wow! 80% of my shopping is books. Now I can give up my trips to Foyles and Blackwells and just skip up the hill.
Here's hoping you're not intending to read Irish authors: referring to Holyhead port remaining closed due to storm damage, 'Mr Hyland expressed concerns that many last-minute goods, including books, fragrances, and Christmas produce, may not reach shelves in time for Christmas, leaving it worthless in January'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwypnlpz4d9o(Not my real name.)
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,059
Button wrote:Here's hoping you're not intending to read Irish authors...
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I never heard about Lord Dunsany / I don't talk about C. S. Lewis / I can't think about Bishop Berkeley / I don't care about Jonathan Swift / Or Lady Gregory / Or Sheridan Le Fanu / I don't talk about Bram Stoker / I don't think about J. M. Synge.' (Apologies to Dexys.)
Frankly, the fragrances'd have more utility since I skipped up to Whitfield to seek out the bookshop that never was.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,253
Yeats!
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,912
Everyone missed him ?????
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,529
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,049
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 346
Matey
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 11 Oct 2021
- Posts: 178
Surely, it’s not the DFL’s that are increasing the house values in the Deal area, it is the local people selling them for inflated prices due to the greedy estate agents telling them to!
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Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,253
They are worth whatever someone is willing to pay, thus whoever is buying them is the person inflating the value?
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,049
Reginald Barrington wrote:They are worth whatever someone is willing to pay
Slightly more complicated Reg?
If I buy a car I do not go into a car showroom and ask what is the maximum amount they will lend me AND my partner and then choose a car in that range!
Plus HMG never has a scheme to provide cheap deposits for first time buyers to get them on some 'car-ladder'.
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,253
Its always more complicated.
However car finance companies will do a credit check and come back with a maximum repayment rates and term.
Buy electric and the government have already subsidised the purchase price on some vehicles and will give you a grant for putting in the charger.
As you say a bit more complicated.
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Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
- Posts: 438
The most glaringly obvious factor to me is the proximity of Deal High Street to the seafront. You can do your shopping then in a few steps you can be sitting on the seafront. Dover has the obvious disadvantage of a great big road separating the town and the seafront with huge volumes of traffic, plus the hideous block of flats obscuring the view of the sea. Unfortunately it’s a problem without a solution.
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
- Posts: 1,072
I disagree Dover is a working port that provides work for the public of Dover and deal.the sea front offers more then Deal and you can see a working port we like Deal also but Dover offers more.
Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
- Posts: 438
Afraid I have to disagree, not really sure what Dover has to recommend apart from the castle, the town can’t rely on that alone. The Maison Dieu is being restored but it will take a long time to reap any benefits. Dover seafront has been well restored but its distance from the town and difficult access cannot be overcome. It’s hidden!
Gary39- Registered: 7 Jul 2017
- Posts: 451
I live at the forgotten Western end of town.
What we have there..
Cliff top walks.
Hill Walks
Samphire Hoe
Shakespeare Beach
Western Heights
Loads of forgotten WW 2 sights to explore
Lovely views of the channel.
No tourists. Like to keep it that way
I took a friend from Deal around the area last year he was amazed how much history my part of Dover has that he did not know about
No empty houses
No second homes
In town a cinema.
Lots of variety of shops. But all high streets are decline.
Deal has a lot of small shops but no big ones
When I worked in Deal the amount traffic heading to Dover in morning was a lot more than heading to Deal to work. I called it the Deal Dover snake.
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,865
Why not let us all be honest on this subject this is small town rivalry and for the petty minority snob value.
Those of us who actually live in the town of Dover are in general happy we do or we would have moved out years ago. Those who live on the 'leafy' outskirts or even the vicinity of Deal nearly always make disparaging remarks about their local town. There is nothing special about River, Temple Ewell, Whitfield or even Walmer just their address is slightly different from the main town area.
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