Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
went in there this morning half 9ish two persons.1 serving 1 writeing shoping list
Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,696
Not surprised about that Hogward as it was trying to squeeze too many flats in, they will now be haggling over a reduced number
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Guest 706- Registered: 25 Oct 2010
- Posts: 285
howard mcsweeney1 wrote:The application for converting 50 and 51 Biggin Street into flats was deferred at a planning meeting last evening.
Where is this,[please?
Guest 706- Registered: 25 Oct 2010
- Posts: 285
Our small old town is slowly dying. It will soon be time for a big new shopping development to open and some of our remaining shops will re-locate,including our M&S. Others shops are just closing, including MacDonalds,where all the young people used to go.. I'll miss the town atmosphere and there are so many generic, soulless centres these days.
It was busy today and I did buy gifts,special cards and other bits,today.My granddaughters spent their pocket money, and we had dinner in Morrisons cafe.
And I bought these two , and they light up:-)
Happy Last Town Christmas!
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,860
Penny you will see another thread on this very subject you raise
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Guest 706- Registered: 25 Oct 2010
- Posts: 285
Keith Sansum1 wrote:Penny you will see another thread on this very subject you raise
What is the title of the thread, Keith?
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,302
My roving reporter tells me that the former sweet shop just up from Ladywell is yet another barber. There must be a lot of hair in Dover.
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 1467- Registered: 30 Jan 2015
- Posts: 149
It's not on my head!
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,806
Terry Nunn wrote:My roving reporter tells me that the former sweet shop just up from Ladywell is yet another barber. There must be a lot of hair in Dover.
Terry
I used to love going in that sweet shop they were so nice in there, their flying saucers and liquorice comforts are really missed.
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Ross Miller- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,696
Not quite another Terry, she has moved from the Charlton Centre to a more affordable, smaller unit
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"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,302
I should get out more Ross!
It's definitely a wise move, the unit in the centre was too large and out of the way.
Terry
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
The pet shop opposite the burned out United Reformed Church has a sign in the window offering Syrian Hamsters for sale at £8 each. You have to hand it those Jihadist chaps, all masters of disguise.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,485
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/firm-closes-after-a-centurys-157449/
[U]One of Dover’s oldest companies closes after a century.
A.T. Blackman and Son Ltd ceases trading as a domestic heating and plumbing company today.[/U]
Guest 706- Registered: 25 Oct 2010
- Posts: 285
Has Dickens, in the Market Square closed down?
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,232
Was still open yesterday lunchtime Penny
Arte et Marte
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Got a sign in the window saying new opening hours 0830 - 1430 hrs Monday to Saturday, that could change quickly once planning permission is given for the conversion.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,940
Much the same problem in Whitstable:-
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/whitstable/news/big-name-stores-to-open-157580/ but having been travelling around the suburbs of Liverpool these last few days we honestly don't realise how lucky we are.
"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
Sounds like not much has changed since I was last there in the 80s for a match at Anfield. Stopped off to get some cigarettes and this shop with boarded up windows only sold them in packets of five and groceries were spread around sparsely on the shelves. We then went into a pub and the place fell silent and everyone stared at us like it was a bar in the old wild west. Next stop was a pub in the Old Swan area of the city, seemed relatively ok, had a sip of my pint put it down and never saw it again!! Tommy Cooper would have been proud of it.
Poverty in Liverpool was a national issue at the time so it seemed natural for our supporters to wave ten pound notes in the direction of where the home fans were.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,940
Unfortunately it often takes an 'incomer' to point out just how much Dover has going for it?
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Guest 2418- Registered: 14 Dec 2017
- Posts: 37
Captain Haddock wrote:Unfortunately it often takes an 'incomer' to point out just how much Dover has going for it?
Never liked immigrants thinking they know better. Dovorians have been saying for years that DTIZ was a lost opportunity and a creative quarter or small business incubator would boost the town rather than a bland shopping mall. Not much you can you do though when the council doesn't listen.
