Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
We will be going along to the Dover steam and fair in one hour just off the A2 ,We love going to them good day out just hope the weather gets better.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#2
That's at Coldred isn't it Vic ?
Roger
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#3
That is right Roger again it won the best looking Kent Village so have a look round it when you get there with its own green and pond,hope to see you out there and you Colin.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#4
hope the weather improves for it, bit out in the sticks for many people though.
#5
Only a 10 minute drive from the Town Centre, so not that remote.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#6
i do not think there are any public transport links between dover and coldred.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#7
We have just got back it is very good out there so get on out there and see for yourself because we are OAPs it only cost £4 each and we are going back and that will not cost anything. we had the hog roast each at £4 and they were very big with the pig.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#8
Howard ,there is the bus mate.
Guest 702- Registered: 9 Jul 2010
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#9
Not the best of weather this morning
Line-up of tractors
Old cars
Working model steam engines
Shire Horses
A Gold Prospector !
Fairground.
And, I got to meet Vic and his wife.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#10
vic
i do not know of a bus service to coldred, they do not have a railway station either.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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vic
i do not know of a bus service to coldred, they do not have a railway station either.
Guest 702- Registered: 9 Jul 2010
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#12
The Dover-Canterbury bus passes through Coldred on its way to Shepherdswell, but I don't know when it runs, or even if it runs at weekends.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#13
not correct ken, that bus runs through temple ewell, lydden then non stop to canterbury.
the service is every 30 minutes during the day, not sure about the evening though it runs very late.
on sunday there are only 4 journeys each way.
Guest 702- Registered: 9 Jul 2010
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#14
I stand corrected Howard.
Never used it myself, but having seen busses in Coldred, I looked up Stahecoach's online timetable and it seemed to suggest there was a stop at the pub.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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#15
I think both of you are correct there are two bus routes to Canterbury. The fast one and one that runs less often that goes through some of the villages on the way.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#16
got to the bottom of it now, jan i had forgotten about the slow bus to canterbury.
theres an early morning one, two during the day and one early evening, monday to saturday.
ken, it stops at the carpenters arms.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#17
Yes we saw Ken out there had a good old chat about the old D,E,W. and I like the photos to.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#18
Weather OK today so if you are going out why not go to the fair give them the support so they come back next year.
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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#19
There are certainly two bus stops in Coldred, one right outside The Carpenters Arms pub and the other down the road to Eythorne a small way. I have seen a bus there - very infrequently, it has to be said - but I have no idea of the route or number.
Chilli Farm, where this event is held every year, is managed by Peter Mummery, a friend of mine who's sadly struggling on his feet these days after a ram decided his knees would bend the other way than nature intended. You'll struggle to find a more community-minded man than Peter Mummery, who lets his land be used for all manner of things, often without charge. Would that there were more of his kind.
True friends stab you in the front.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#20
Peter Mummery (whose brother is Lord Justice Mummery) is a good friend of ours and a thoroughly good bloke. As well as running the farm and all the other village stuff, he also delivers the papers in the village and arranges a quarterly real ale mystery tour by coach. I haven't seen him lately but I'm sorry to hear about his knees.
PG.
PS he also grits the road through the village in the winter, when he can manage it.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
