Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Anyone on here play bowls, and do Dover have a team? Never taken much notice of it since being on this forum, and I thought what a pleasant picture it made with the castle in the background. A positive side of Dover.
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Colin, Kearsney has a very succesful bowls team, and their green looks every bit as good as the one in town.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Yes that is the home of Dover Bowls Club .River also have a good bowling green .
Sue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The bowling green is in Kearsney NOT River!!! River isn't the only village west of the London Road.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Thank Sue and Sid, I know of the Kearsney bowling green, but it was just seeing the one in town which prompted me to get it on here. Anything to show Dover has some pleasant views. Not all dereliction.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Sid ,Im very fortunate to have two bowling greens in my patch .Kearsney AlkHam Road River and River Bowls Club in the Recreation Ground off Lewisham Road .We also had Buckland Mill off Lower road but they had to relocate and now are at Whitfield on Old Park Barracks .
River is not called posh for nothing .
I cover London Road River and up until a few years ago where you live .
Kearsney Abbey ,River Recreation Ground oh how lucky we are .
Colin the one in Dover is leased from DDC
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Yes Colin and looking at the photo did you call into Riverside for a cuppa ?
Guest 684- Registered: 26 Feb 2009
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Lovely photo of Dover Bowls Club and the castle in the background. That's what Dover should be all about.
All the drama and the beauty and amazing vistas of the town are so often ignored and undervalued - and destroyed.
On a related note, read a salutary article by Tracey Emin about her beloved Margate in today's Sun. Dover is every bit as dramatic and beautiful and, moreover, unique. Do not let it be diminished and neglected any further. It breaks my heart.
Guest 695- Registered: 30 Mar 2010
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On BBC News in a little while is a piece on Tracey's love letter to her birth town.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Thanks Andy. Surprising what is around if we only open our eyes. Still lots of room for improvement though. SUE. Is that Riverside place a cafe?
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Riverside Centre .Open to anyone over sixty .Two Course lunch and drink £ 3.50,a scone and coffee under £1 .
The centre is open to provide social help as well ,providing a bathing service ,hairdresser ,nail cutting ,and a hearing clinic .
Clients can use the computers and there are activities such as bingo ,jigsaw puzzeles ,quizes ,art , needlework and excercise classes .
Some weeks we have sing along session .
Colin if you are not over sixty would you like to come along as a volunteer?Perhaps set up a camera club .
Guest 661- Registered: 16 Mar 2008
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Colin I am a member of Dover Bowls Club, but because of working full time don't play that often, they do have an open day in may. I think it's the 8th where people can go along and see what it's all about and have a go, you will need smooth soled shoe's if you want to go on the green and play. If your interested go along and meet everyone they are a friendly bunch.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I do not agree with Sue River is not posh as she puts it, yes it is a nice place to live but that is all,and it is part of DOVER.
River is a lovely place , my girls go to school there , the two problems i have tho is the dog mess on Lewisham road and parents driving there kids to school stopping outside the school blocking the road . there were two traffic wardens and a pcso out side the school last week in the afternoon , they should be there in the morning.
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Mark I also live in River and have already said it is nice to live in the parish.And like you say at School times just outside the school it is hard to drive passed it.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Dont you get me started Vic .River is not part of Dover .We are a parish which I and others fought for .You have only lived here just over ten years dont you compair us with Dover .If you want to be in Dover then move back .
River is well known for being leafy and green and until your houses were built we never had any social housing in River .
Long standing River elderly dont even ger a chance to move into one of those delightful bungallows .
River is a village .We have our own village sign our own Parish Council Chairman complete with Chain of Office .#
Be grateful that you are able to live in a lovely bungallow .I fought hard to get those properties and then found no River people were eligble .
We broke away from Dover in April 1987
Talk like that does not endear you to getting on River Parish Council .
im very lucky to represent such a lovely area which stretches to Alkham including Ewell Minnis ..
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Sue River is a parish in the distict of Dover so is part of Dover,some years ago I said at a meeting at the District office at we should not call it the Dover District Council, but call it the DOVER and DEAL District this did not go down well. So the way you are thinking Deal should also be very upset by saying they are in the Dover District,and I do know some of the Deal public are.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Thanks Sue, but I`m still not near 60 yet. As regards to starting a camera club, I`m not really that knowledgeable on photography, thanks anyway. And thank you humphy, I have watched bowls in the past, both outside and on TV. It`s something to think about in the future. Are all bowling greens made to a standard size by the way, as the one`s I`ve seen on TV in past years seemed longer than the one above?
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Guest 661- Registered: 16 Mar 2008
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Colin it's a shame the thread was hijacked into the politics of is river part of Dover or not, Do we care! Bowling green's are all different sizes but the actual play area is a standard length about 70 yrd's I think but don't quote me on that and then each rink or lane is the same width.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Humphy, sorry and you are right it just happens a times I will try and not do it again,just to had I have had a go at Bowling on a green and loved it,I hope at some point to take it up.
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