Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,857
Never seen anyone in there
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
Jenny has the best looking shop in town and sells only the best and is doing very well had a shop in Dover over 20years and still doing well.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,478
The old Whites shop opposite the Town Hall has a sold sign in the window. Anyone know what the plan is there?
Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,740
Karlos wrote:The end seems to be close for the Burtons in Dover.
Any time I'm down that part of the town I'm surprised that it's still there!
Its surprising how long its been there.I can remember going there with my dad to get his suit which must have been around the mid 70s.
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Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
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"But Dover can also feel itself to be apart from the rest of the UK. It’s not much of a tourist destination, but somewhere people pass through on their way to somewhere else. It’s an arrangement that appears to breed resentment and relief in equal measure."
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
Close down the old shops top end of high street give the owners the cash to start up again near the town centre with low rents for two years and see if that works top end for housing.
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Judith Roberts- Registered: 15 May 2012
- Posts: 637
I think the journalist came to Dover with a plan to confirm his pre-conceived idea that residents are zenophobic. In fact Dovorians are generally very friendly and welcoming to all.
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DFL- Registered: 21 Jul 2020
- Posts: 126
Judith Roberts wrote:I think the journalist came to Dover with a plan to confirm his pre-conceived idea that residents are zenophobic. In fact Dovorians are generally very friendly and welcoming to all.
TBF, there are alot of zenophobic views around.................but then again, there are no shortage of those bolstering the views! They can't all be wrong!
DFL- Registered: 21 Jul 2020
- Posts: 126
Karlos wrote:The old Whites shop opposite the Town Hall has a sold sign in the window. Anyone know what the plan is there?
Waiting on plannng for two flats upstairs, then it'll be retail of some sort downstairs....
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,002
The Guardian have raised sneering at ordinary folk to a fine art, a fitting achievement for New Labour's Pravda.
But careful with the spelling of xenophobic; that paper's writers should earn their prejudices. Besides, Zeno didn't do anything to deserve that kind of attitude, though I suppose he'd be stoical about it.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Andy B- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,740
I noticed today that Burtons in the market square has shut,boxes of free coat hangers outside and shop dummies and fittings were all for sale cheap.Clothing was all boxed up on pallets ready to be sent on elsewhere.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,857
Indoor market going
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I think in the old co-op could go into a ADLES and close the one they have up town it would be bigger and more parking etc and in its place could go housing we need to make the town centre smaller by bring the shops that are right up the top end the cost well the councils both of them would have to help the shop owners move and let them have vey low rents till they got up and running. Then they could pull all that is up there down and build good town housing not one bed room flats ,but it needs a very good council that thinks ahead .
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,227
Do you mean an Asda?
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,018
Aldi .If so that shop was built to serve all the people who live in that area especially St Radigunds .On the bus route not every one has a car ,
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Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
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Asda would make more sense. They definitely won't be moving the Aldi it is in a much needed location and is busy most of the day.
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Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
- Posts: 614
We don’t need any more basic food shops in Dover. ASDA, 2x Iceland, Morrison’s , M&S, Aldi, and just on the edge, Lidl and Tesco. What we need is a more affluent population, then we could have a proper fishmonger and somewhere to buy decent cheese.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,018
Agree
Judith Roberts- Registered: 15 May 2012
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We will only get a more affluent population if we get good quality family sized houses in Dover. The new build in town is always flats and 'affordable housing'. The more affluent are only offered homes in Whitfield and they rarely venture into the town centre once settled in Whitfield.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,926
I remember when I moved here in the eighties. Asked estate agent to show me 'best area' in Dover. Viewed River and Whitfield.
Bought in Deal (obvs).
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