Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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We use our slow cooker a lot more now
There are cheaper ways as Sue says
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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Slow cookers are very good,the food taste a lot better as well ,we use ours most weeks and the cost of running are also a lot better as Tesco great saying is "a little is a help."
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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You can go out and have a lovely meal later in the day
And the cost in today's climate is a lot less
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TheThinWhiteDuke- Registered: 7 Jul 2016
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Keith Sansum1 wrote:You can go out and have a lovely meal later in the day
And the cost in today's climate is a lot less
Had to re-read that. And then the previous posts. To get context.
Thought you were saying eating out in today's climate is a lot less.
That's become a thing of the past for me (or a rare treat) since the price of eating out became stupidly ridiculous. Even 'spoons. Even takeaways.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Shows the need to encourage different shops to the town
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alexiatrade- Registered: 10 Oct 2018
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Keith Sansum1.....#2,345...
"Shows the need to encourage different shops to the town"
What would you suggest? .....Thank you.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Looking at daily shop
Very difficult to get your shop all in Dover as much as you may try
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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A fish mongers.Decent clothing shop.Biggest mistake Marks did only selling food in their Dover Branch .Decent book shop.China and glass ware
Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
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It's sad as we used to have such a good high street but everyone told us the future was online and retail parks like St James but everyone I speak to has been going to Canterbury, Faversham and Deal because they have nice shops and you can't rely on online deliveries in time for Christmas.
victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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Sorry sir but the town has got a lot of the pubic going round and some from the towns around Dover so that is not telling the same story as you are.
Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
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Clearly it’s dependent upon what you’re trying to buy. My family list included an awful lot of things that I’d be totally unable to source locally.
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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Sue Nicholas wrote:A fish mongers.Decent clothing shop.Biggest mistake Marks did only selling food in their Dover Branch .Decent book shop.China and glass ware
A second hand shop. I need one for my watch.
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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There aresecond hand shops in Dover sir that buy and sale watchs
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Captain Haddock
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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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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Smaller retailers taking on the big boys
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Guest 4957- Registered: 25 Nov 2022
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I am new to this forum and was born in Clarendon street and loved growing up in Dover.
Although I have lived in quite a few countries and cities I still feel very sentimental about my home town. I left England in 1972, but have visited Dover many times over the years. Sorry, but in my opinion Dover has very little to make it appealing these days. I find it very run-down, dirty and heartless. Folkestone and Deal run rings around Dover and it should be better given it's position and history.
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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Sorry SIR I wasborn in Westbury RD in 1942 so we might know each other and I find Dover going upwards not the other way best sea front and the parks etc are very good. The hills etc are still the same as they have been parts of the town at last looking some what better the roads etc in the town are cleaned each morning and road s and the paths have cleaners going round yes the town needs more and better toilets .
victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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I would like also to point out the D.D.C.are on a very short list for reward for keeping town and country side clean ,look on the Dover news to find this.
Guest 4957- Registered: 25 Nov 2022
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Well Vic, I was just giving my opinion on the town based on visits and not residency, just another tourist. I knew the Roberts family in Westbury and was an acquaintance of Neil. We did have some very wild times. Also there was also a Matcham family a few doors up from our house, wife was Maisie, can't remember husbands name, could have been Bill. Apologies if my post caused you too much anguish.- Trevor
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Bear with me.
There are far too many shops in Dover between the Market Square and The Sportsman Pub, a distance of near enough a mile, and most of it on a road originally developed to take all of the traffic out of the port in event of the Folkestone Road being blocked, hence being two lane.
Much of it is low quality ribbon development, being the result of perfectly nice Victorian terraces having their frontages often changed into single story shop extensions leading directly onto the pavement.
Wander down the road as I have, look up above the ground floor and there's some really nice buildings. At street level they are crap.
It's not a particularly nice road to live in, shop in or even drive along.
As well as the Folkestone Road we now have the A20/M20 and the Jubilee Way so there is no need for other than local traffic on the London Road.
Why not turn the road from the Maison Dieu to Cherry Tree Ave into a single lane using either side for pavement/parking/trees/cycle lane/benches/cafe seating etc with a 10 (?) mph limit on the road.
Property is dirt cheap along there and without the traffic you would find young families buying up housing which is truly affordable (unlike Whitfield or the DHB's plans) and gentrifying the whole area.
This sort of thing has happened and is happening all over the country - why not Dover?
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