Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,939
Only went in their once.
Asked them what their chicken was like.
They told me it was 'rubbery' so I didn't bother.
Years before that when I used to smoke and had run out of cigarettes I remembered that the Chinese sold them.
Sent my young son down to ask for twenty No6.
He came back with half a ton of fried rice.
I'll get my coat now ..................
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
M & S getting into the festive spirit.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,803
Personally I think those windows help explain why M&S are not doing very well, dull and boring spring to mind.
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Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
- Posts: 463
Given the number of Chinese takeaways, it's surprising the Good Luck survived that long
Lew Finnis
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
M & S still looks more cheerful than the shops opposite.
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Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,231
I would be embarrassed to have my advertising in those windows, makes me think shoddy property dodgy landlord!
Lew I wondered the same re: the Good Luck and a few years ago I asked them and basically as they own the building and family do the work it was affordable to keep open.
I believe the patriarch died a couple of years back.
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Arte et Marte
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
The good luck was the best in the town I have used that from the day it open and before that it was a cafe called Jeane, that to was a good cafe I was using it when the high street was two ways for bus and lorrys and cars or like me bike.
Ian Handley
- Location: Norfolk UK
- Registered: 30 Oct 2013
- Posts: 412
The Good Luck in its hey day was the best Chinese in town, even when the Champion opened just down the road in the Drum Holdings block.
Prior to being the Good Luck it was the Valcania Cafe - a great haunt for us 20! somethings in the 1960s!
Ian Handley
Former Operations Controller DHB Terminal Control (1978-1995)
Dover born (1946) & bred, Moved from area in 1999 - family still living in Dover
Guest 1831- Registered: 1 Sep 2016
- Posts: 395
#705 Thank you for the photographs etc.
These shops are a complete disgrace. They are wonderful buildings, which, if respected could make our High Street, interesting and unique.
This is a classic example, of how old Dover, is disregarded and ignored.
If the Camera went higher, you will see how the buildings are covered with plants etc.
Look up, as you go along Cannon and Biggin Street, the buildings are wonderful.
Great shame and an illustration of a lack of interest from the people in authority, yet who are making good money out of this Town.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
ah Christine,thats dovers national treasure ,the hanging gardens of biggin street.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
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Not really much that our elected chaps/chapesses can do as it has been stated on many threads that any potential tenants of the shops have to take on the floors above which takes the rents to levels where profit taking is unlikely. The Mayor. Town Council and Town Team are working to address this.
Guest 1831- Registered: 1 Sep 2016
- Posts: 395
Nothing to do with the Elected ones. They have no clout, or indeed, any power. What properties have been bought, as I post this?
It is the ones with monetary vested interest, for reasons beyond sense. It must pay them, or suit them to have such slums in our midst. No commercial Estate Agent, or its flunkey would let any Town Centre properties get into such a dire state.
Competition, and a change for the better is needed. Dover does not get this, because there are hidden agendas...........Always.
Guest 1849- Registered: 12 Sep 2016
- Posts: 440
christine.a wrote:Nothing to do with the Elected ones. They have no clout, or indeed, any power. What properties have been bought, as I post this?
It is the ones with monetary vested interest, for reasons beyond sense. It must pay them, or suit them to have such slums in our midst. No commercial Estate Agent, or its flunkey would let any Town Centre properties get into such a dire state.
Competition, and a change for the better is needed. Dover does not get this, because there are hidden agendas...........Always.
I hope a letter from Terson's solicitors is on its way to you, to make such scurrilous remarks is unacceptable.
Guest 1831- Registered: 1 Sep 2016
- Posts: 395
Mr Little - you make me laugh.
Always on edge - rushing in with banners waving, without thinking anything out.
Never mind Deah, all things pass.
Anyway, delighted to see one of the three shops, has been cleaned and polished, with a
Caxtons sign in the window.
Someone cares.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
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Pray tell which of the shops in 705 has been cleaned up?
Yours Sincerely
715
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Guest 1849- Registered: 12 Sep 2016
- Posts: 440
christine.a wrote:Mr Little - you make me laugh.
Always on edge - rushing in with banners waving, without thinking anything out.
Never mind Deah, all things pass.
Anyway, delighted to see one of the three shops, has been cleaned and polished, with a
Caxtons sign in the window.
Someone cares.
I'm not surprised you're laughing but there is nothing funny about the libellous way you besmirch local independent businesses. Of course, hiding behind a pseudonym gives you a false sense of security, you wouldn't dream of visiting Tersons and engaging them in sensible conversation, you are a coward and a pest.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
monkey see monkey do
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Guest 1831- Registered: 1 Sep 2016
- Posts: 395
Mr Little - please clarify, where have I mentioned Tersons?
The photographs of these shops speak for themselves, and they should be cleaned up.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
Go to most seaside towns around the south East and they look as bad as Dover does ,but we can see parts of the Town on the up it is just the high street that needs a good make over.We have all said it Dover town needs to be much smaller and all of them closer to the middle there are well over 150 shops in Dover that are in use. So in some ways we are alot better off then most. Some of the old shops up London road need to be pulled down and made into housing and the shop keepers there need funding to move into a smaller Dover.
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Guest 1849- Registered: 12 Sep 2016
- Posts: 440
christine.a wrote:Mr Little - please clarify, where have I mentioned Tersons?
The photographs of these shops speak for themselves, and they should be cleaned up.
Who by?
