Ian Handley
- Location: Norfolk UK
- Registered: 30 Oct 2013
- Posts: 412
Totally agree Howard, I now live in a small South Norfolk village, hardly ever see kids out playing, the local primary school is less than a mile away, all on the flat and yet they have to driven there daily. When I was a boy living in Chaucer Crescent during the summer we would walk down to the beach, our parents wouldn't worry if they didn't see us till tea time. Some days if we were hungry we'd walk home at lunch and then go back. A real treat was having a penny or 2 for the bus - number 98 to The Linces. Funnily enough I have posted several images on the FB Mature Dovorians feed, one of them shows a packed Dover beach in 1979, I bet it hasn't been packed this last few days! Kids don't know what they're missing.
Ian Handley
Former Operations Controller DHB Terminal Control (1978-1995)
Dover born (1946) & bred, Moved from area in 1999 - family still living in Dover
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
walked down that way this afternoon,the beach was about half full,mainly famlys with young kids.there where a few teenagers floating about.. along with a few drinkers.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Ian makes a valid point, I was born and brought up in Canning Town in London's east end and the play points were bomb sites.
I particularly remember the " bombed odeon" which opened at the beginning of hostilities and after a couple of Clark Gable matinees was reduced to a shell by the Luftwaffe.
As kids we spent most days when we were not in school clambering over these places and aside from a few cuts and bruises we all survived and went home for tea.
We are incredibly lucky to have a great seafront and beach and it is mainly well used, not seen the problem people that Brian refers to down there.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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there where about 4 of them howard,not causing trouble but there pressance was noted.
Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,934
#9918. East Street Howard.
Do nothing and nothing happens.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Correct Bob now another one in Folkestone.
Bob Whysman- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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#9926. That'll be Cheriton Place, Howard.
Do nothing and nothing happens.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Correct Bob now one in Deal.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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This is a road used by many who travel from Dover to Deal.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Bob Whysman- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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#9930. Manor Road, Howard.
Do nothing and nothing happens.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Correct Bob now one in Deal.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
A clue here would be connected to our wartime Prime Minister.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Shops and a take away on the ground floor here, in which Dover road?
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#9932, attlie avenue.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Sorry Brian - the road is named after a connection with a Prime Minister.
Guest 774- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 498
#9934 = That's above Hall's on Folkestone Road...
"If it ain't broke, fix it til it is."
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Correct Gary, now the back view of a Hythe pub.
Guest 767- Registered: 30 Aug 2012
- Posts: 458
The Dukes Head? Just along from Red Lion Sq?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Sorry Phil, more centrally located.
