Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,227
Just a reminder post office closes this evening.
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,926
Fortunately Dovorians have no word which is the equivalent of 'schadenfreude'.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/deal/news/i-couldnt-make-this-restaurant-work-221193/
(Peasants stand in field chewing straw thinking life has always been this way and will never change and this so called industrial revolution is so overrated etc)
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
only in deal bob only in deal
Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 344
I don't understand? Why would dovorians have any interest in this article about Deal, am I missing something?
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,798
Dover Pilot wrote:I don't understand? Why would dovorians have any interest in this article about Deal, am I missing something?
Maybe because the Dover branch of the company is apparently successful, that is according to the owner. BTW never been there so I have no reason to doubt him.
There can only be one reason this particular Deal branch has failed while their rivals are succeeding, that one is not providing what the potential customers want, it is not rocket science.
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Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 344
Bit like their pier then, surprised that one at the end of it hasn't closed yet
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,926
Dover on TV. BBC Inside Out 17/02
How £1million of lottery money helped Dover residents set up their own alternative to the high street:-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000fl49/inside-out-south-east-17022020"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,478
The Cabin newsagents is up for sale. A sign in the window mentions retirement.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,018
Oh dear they deliver my papers.Lovely people .
Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,740
I see that Whites of kent the curtain and fabric shop opposite the town hall has a closing down sale,a shame as it must be one of the oldest shops in town,i can remember it when I was a kid.It must have been trading for at least 40+years.Also the recently opened Jerk Caribbean restaurant in London rd looks like its shut down,shop now full of carboard boxes and dismantled shop fittings,i,m quite surprised if it has as it apparently had good reviews.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,926
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,926
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 344
Dover has an uncanny knack of investing in dead ducks. St James opened just as shopping malls became unfashionable, the DWDR just as we enter recession and as for the cruise terminal, even if people ever decide to go on cruises again its doubtful the operators will survive the end of this year.
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Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
- Posts: 614
And the last nail in the coffin for:
- the traditional high street
- pubs (although pub goers are the most likely to ignore restrictions)
Hopefully this will trigger a resurgence of small local community shops to the detriment of big supermarket chains.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,926
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,696
Doubtful given it is owned as a "long only" asset by a pension fund provider
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,002
'...those who are currently paying off products bought via BrightHouse will have to continue to do so, with administrators likely to oversee the payments, with the loans likely to be sold on to another lender.'
No. Bring on the debt jubilee.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Judith Roberts- Registered: 15 May 2012
- Posts: 637
I am not sorry to see the demise of Bright House.
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