Restoration of Dover Castle, the main room THE DOVER SOCIETY FOUNDED IN 1988 Registered with the Civic Trust, Affiliated to the Kent Federation of Amenity Societies Registered Charity No. 299954 PRESIDENT Brigadier Maurice Atherton CBE VICE-PRESIDENTS Miss Lillian Kay, Mrs Joan Liggett Peter Marsh, Jonathan Sloggett, Tferry Sutton, Miss Christine Waterman, Jack Woolford THE COMMITTEE Chairman Derek Leach OBE, 24 Riverdale, River, Dover CT17 OGX Tfel: 01304 823926 Email: [email protected] Vice-Chairman Jeremy Cope, 53 Park Avenue, Dover CT16 1HD Tel: 01304 211348 Email: [email protected] Hon. Secretary William Naylor, "Wood End", 87 Leyburne Rd, Dover CT16 1SH Tfel: 01304 211276 Email: [email protected] Hon. Treasurer Mike Weston, 71 Castle Avenue, Dover CT16 1EZ Tfel: 01304 202059 Email: [email protected] Membership Secretary Sheila Cope, 53 Park Avenue, Dover CT16 1HD Tfel: 01304 211348 Social Secretaries Patricia Hooper-Sherratt, Castle Lea, T&swell St, Dover CT16 1SG Tfel: 01304 228129 Email: [email protected] Georgette Rapley, 29 Queen's Gardens, Dover CT17 9AH Tfel: 01304 204514 Email: [email protected] Editor Alan Lee, 8 Cherry Tree Avenue, Dover CT16 2NL Tfel: 01304 213668 Email: [email protected] Press Secretary Tferry Sutton MBE, 17 Bewsbury Cross Lane, Whitfield, Dover CT16 3HB Tfel: 01304 820122 Email: [email protected] Planning Chairman Jack Woolford, 1066 Green Lane, Tfemple Ewell, Dover CT16 3AR Tfel: 01304 330381 Email: [email protected] Committee Mike Bayley, Patricia Jukes, Margaret Robson, Alan Sencicle, Pat Sherratt, Sybil Standing, Mike Weston Archivist Dr S.S.G. Hale, 34 Church Hill, Tfemple Ewell, Dover CT16 3DR Tfel: 01304 825670 Minute Secretary Barbara Stapleton, 16 Knights Tfemplars, Western Heights, Dover CT17 4DX Email: [email protected] Web Page Mike McFarnell, Email: [email protected] Advertising Secretary Jean Marsh, 31 Millais Road, Dover CT16 2LW Tfel: 01304 206123 Email: [email protected] Committee Members Maureen Morris, 15 Samphire Court, Tkswell St, Dover CT16 1AJ Tfel: 01304 206091 Alan Sencicle, Email: [email protected] Pat Sherratt, Castle Lea, Tkswell Street, Dover CT16 1SG Tfel: 01304 228129 Email: [email protected] Web Site www.doversociety.org Content
2 EDITORIAL Alan Lee 5 PLANNING SUB-COMMITTEE Jack Woolford 6 DOVER'S CONCERN Jeremy Cope 7 RIVER DOUR WORKING PARTIES Jeremy Cope 9 MEMBERSHIP NEWS Sheila Cope 9 SOCIETY PROJECTS Jeremy Cope 10 1944 RETURN TO DOVER Mike Iggesden 11 MARKET SQUARE BUSINESS Mike Iggesden NOVEMBER MEETING 17 Royal Pavilion at Folkestone - talk by Ruth Parkinson Terry Sutton 18 Mayor's Eye View - talk by Susan Jones Alan Lee 20 THE FUTURE OF ROMAN DOVER Derek Leach JANUARY MEETING 24 Mr Rolls, Mr Royce and Mr Johnson - talk by Christine Waterman Tferry Sutton 26 Dover Castle Renewed - talk by Steve Lang Alan Lee 30 PARKS AND GARDENS OF SPECIAL HISTORIC INTEREST Alan Lee 35 WESTERN HEIGHTS PRESERVATION SOCIETY Barry Stewart 36 ST NICHOLAS DAY CELEBRATION Fr Peter Sherred 39 THE LYDDEN ENVIRONMENT GROUP Ray Newsam 44 APPLICATION FORM FOR MEMBERSHIP f The Objectives of .Editorial the Dover Society founded in 1988. he coming year will see some major events connected to our • to promote high standards of T town, both with planning and planning and architecture leisure. • to interest and inform the public in the geography, Dover Tbwn Investment Zone (DTIZ) history, archaeology, natural The St James/Russell Street history and architecture of the development seems to have stalled once area again with the late withdrawal of ASDA from the project. Will this ever be • to secure the preservation, completed? protection, development and improvement of features of Terminal 2 historic or public interest Dover Harbour Board has started the • and commitment to the belief consultation process on the plans for that a good environment is a Terminal 2 at the western end of the good investment. harbour. I hope that our views will be The area we cover comprises the taken into consideration when the plans parishes or wards of Barton, are forwarded to the Secretary of State. Buckland, Castle, Lydden, More details of the proposals and plans Tfemple Ewell, Maxton, are available at www.doverport.co.uk Pineham , Priory, River, St. Radigund's, Tbwn & Pier and Sale of the Port of Dover Tbwer Hamlets. The Government has also raised the issue of a change in structure for the All members receive three major Trust Ports in MTP 2. The major Newsletters a year and in each Trust Ports have been asked to review year the Committee organises their corporate structure and present about ten interesting events - any proposals for restructuring by April talks, tours, visits, Members' 2010. The concern is that with the Meetings and usually a current state of the public finances the Christmas Feast. Government could exercise its right The Society gives Awards for under the Ports Act 1991 to require full improvements to the area, privatisation. They may undertake this monitors planning proposals without taking notice of local interests and supports, joins in or and solely to raise cash for the initiates civic projects and Government should the Trust Ports arts events. choose, either not to put forward their D own proposals, or argue for preservation of their current status. All statue on the sea front. It would be representations had to be made to the helpful if Dover District Council, the Secretary of State, Department of event organiser, released some details Transport within 42 days from the 11th and advertised the event. February 2010. Housing Sea Change money During March DDC have been holding On 3rd April 2008 the Culture Secretary exhibitions of the proposed new named Dover along with Blackpool and housing scheme at Whitfield. Expect Tbrbay as the coastal towns with most some animosity to these plans from the social and economic deprivation. Dover local residents. was awarded £3.8 million with the money used for projects such as Society Events improving high streets, promenades, Many thanks to the organisers and harbours or gardens; constructing or entertainers, Nicholas Harby and converting buildings for use as cultural Madeline Mee who made the Christmas centres; or enhancing existing galleries, Feast such a success. With £80 donated concert/dance halls, theatres and arts towards the Crabble Corn Mill Trust the centres. None of this money has been Wine and Wisdom night was also a spent within the town. It has gone to resounding success Thanks to all English Heritage, £2.4 million, on involved including Clive T&ylor and his revamping the Keep and Dover quiz team. Harbour Board, £1 million, on upgrading the sea front esplanade. This Guided Tburs of the development is due to start this year so Maison Dieu Hall expect the concrete waves within the Our Chairman has been involved in next two years. Equal funding for these meetings with the Mayor of Dover and projects have been provided by KCC, Jon Iveson covering the restoration of DDC, EH and DHB. the Maison Dieu. The Mayor said that she would like to see public guided Rolls Celebrations tours of the Maison Dieu and suggested Following the Bleriot celebrations last that our members might by prepared to year 2010 sees the centenary of Charles act as guides, perhaps three or four S Rolls of Rolls Royce fame. He was the times per year. A few problems exist first man to fly to France and back and the Mayor will be contacting non-stop, for which the Ruinhart Thanet Leisure, who has the Champagne house of France presented concession there, with the Society him with a silver cup. This celebration informed as to the outcome. It must be will be on the weekend of 5th and 6th stressed this is only the initial planning June. There should be a fly past by the stage. If anyone would like to be Rolls Royce spitfire and on the Sunday considered as a tour guide, please a display of between 50 and 100 vintage contact any of the committee. Rolls Royce cars in front of the Rolls Editor A m endm ent The editor would like to apologise for the following inaccuracies that appeared in the last newsletter. Maureen Morris wrote Down House article, wrongly attributed to Pat Hooper, sorry Maureen. In the second paragraph, third sentence it should read 'At the age of twenty-two he had at last found his niche and his role in life for the next fifty years' (not sixty years).
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EDITORIAL a n d p r o d u c t i o n t e a m Editor: Mr Alan Lee Proof Readers: Miss May Jones, Mrs Merril Lilley and Mrs Pam Tkylor Advertising Secretary: Mrs J. Marsh Distribution Organiser: Mr J. Cope Envelopes and Labels: Mr J. Cope Area Distributors: J.Betts, M.Burton, J.Cope, E.B.Dudley, J.Fox, J.Francis, M.Goulding, L.M.Hoar, E.M.Johns, M.Lilley, A.Mole, M.Morris, L.O'Connor, J.Owen, K.J.Palmer, M.Robson, A.Sencicle, A.Sidney-Vassey, C.T&ylor. The work of the consultation, DDC has peremptorily shut down the public toilets at Maison Dieu and Buckland Bridge in our PLANNING world-famous White Cliffs town - Sub-Committee whose second economic basis is tourism. On the other hand, the Report by JACK WOOLFORD, handover of responsibility for tourism Chairman to Dover Town Council should guarantee us against another Market e have reiterated to the Square monstrosity. This will sensibly Ombudsman our support for our W relocate the Tourist Office in the members, Mr & Mrs Woolhouse, who Market Square, in addition to its assert Dover District Council (DDC) admirable and ongoing festivals, maladministration in permitting the Christmas lights, sports and building of two four-bed semi allotments achievements. detached houses in their neighbour's back garden in Maison Dieu (!) Road. DDC has been given the go-ahead for the Core Strategy of the Local Planning Policy PPS1 "supports Development Framework as a growth sustainable development and point for the years to 2026 and protection and enhancement of the beyond, with 14,000 new homes and quality of the natural environment in 6,500 new jobs in prospect. rural and urban areas ... places Presumably current problems such as emphasis on good design and ... states the relocation (if any) of our hospital, that development which is the privatization (or not) of Dover inappropriate in its context should Harbour Board, the construction of not be accepted". Q. E. D! Terminal 2 at the Western Docks and We asked DDC for the detailed costing the demolition of Burlington House, and output of the Whitfield Wind etc, etc, etc, will be included. TUrbine after two years and learn that Meanwhile, at least, for anything up the potential return on the £90,000 to 30 years, we have the High Speed installation is £1618 per annum plus Rail Link, the new Morrisons to the saving of 600 kg of C02. compete with our existing Admirable though this latter is, it will supermarkets (etc) and the excellent take fifty-five years to recover the refurbishment of Payne's green cost, not to mention maintenance. grocery which shows that small shops The Performance Officer says that the in the town centre can improve, installation was paid for by grants: but survive and prosper. this was taxpayer's money, not a free gift... PS: DDC has accepted our advice not No doubt the recession is partly to to put banner signs on the Big blame, but, without warning or Screen... G i m e z t T m * * * by Jeremy Cope * * * Regeneration Loos and Tburism As you may be aware the Society has set With the current financial climate it is up a sub-committee to promote little wonder that local government improvements in our town in the face of services are under threat. Dover District very considerable neglect. Dover has so Council is working on transferring some many assets with much that is special services such as tourism and floral but has a rundown feel to it. Many of us displays to Dover Tbwn Council by feel that the town is being downgraded agreement. On 20th January a meeting either though ignorance or sheer was called to test Dover ratepayer opinion, carelessness. required by local government rules. The sub-committee, via Pat Sherratt, But the matter and meeting took off. has now written to Dover District Shortly before the meeting the District Council to press the case for external Council had closed the Maison Dieu and upgrading of several premises, using Buckland toilets. Late last year they powers available to the Council should closed the Esplanade toilets. It is they so wish to use them. These powers understood the District Council told the allow the Council to enforce repair Tbwn Council that unless they paid for orders upon the owners and we the running costs (£90,000 per annum) understand that where towns have used then the toilets would remain closed. them around 90% of owners comply Loos were added to the agenda [together without any further action by the with a dose of anger] resulting in a Council. rather lively meeting. Premises included on our list are 10 After the meeting Derek, our King Street (the old Labour Exchange), Chairman, wrote the following letter to the buildings along A20 from west of the Cllr Paul Watkins:- Dour to York Street, three buildings in You will not be surprised to hear that The Biggin Street and Castle Street, the Dover Society is most concerned about the former YHA building in London Road abrupt closure of the public toilets at Buckland (Dr Koettlitz the Arctic explorer was Bridge and by Biggin Hall Whilst once resident there), the old Granada appreciating the need for Dover District Cinema in Castle Street, an art deco Council to make cuts in spending it is building whose designer is famous regrettable that there has been no attempt to enough to have a cinema in Tboting seek the views of the public over where and listed grade 1 and finally the old Crypt how such cuts should be made. Such Restaurant in Bench Street left after consultation may have produced a quite destruction by fire for about 30 years. different answer since public toilets would We will keep you posted. seem to be a basic prerequisite for encouraging visitors to the town as well as an Perhaps Dover will be renamed essential service for residents, particularly the Clochemerle sur Dour. elderly. Whilst various stories are circulating Clochemerle is a 1934 French satirical about how and why the decision was made, if novel by Gabriel Chevallier. It is set in a there were no meaningful discussions with French village in Beaujolais inspired by Dover Tbwn Council about the problem and Vaux-en-Beaujolais a commune in the how the toilets could remain open, it leaves Rhone department in eastern France and much to be desired. deals with the ramifications over plans to Any possible takeover by Dover Tbwn install a new pissoir, a gentleman's urinal, Council would seem to require careful thought in the village square. Ed. and possibly a transition period to enable the Dover's Hospital Services Tbwn Council to produce an acceptable Following a total lack of action on new strategy, including possibly charging for hospital/clinic facilities it seems almost upgraded facilities. as if Buckland Hospital is being saved The Society hopes that the District from what was apparently to be its fate Council will have constructive dialogue with (demolition). There is now more choice the Tbwn Council to find a solution that available for the location of hospital preserves and, if possible, improves existing appointments. It is well worth asking if toilets. Only by the district, town and parish you can see a consultant or have councils working together can we hope to treatment at Buckland Hospital or regenerate Dover. If the Society can help this Maison Dieu Clinic rather than at process in any way, we are more than willing. Ashford, Canterbury or Thanet. Another wait and see - at the time of It is not something that is being writing the toilets remain closed. advertised but worth a try.
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27-29 Castle Street, Dover, Kent CT16 1PT e: [email protected] 72 High Street, New Romney, Kent TN28 BAT e: [email protected] the voice of experience www.tersons.com MEMBERSHIP NEWS Spring 2010 S ubscriptions A r e N ow D u e Subscriptions remain the same at £10 joint and £6 single. Please pay promptly and ask me for a standing order form if you wish to pay by this convenient method. I don't know how societies such as ours will manage when cheques are abolished. Personally I am hoping for a rethink on the subject. We have 424 members and have welcomed Miss D Russell, Mr W Johnson, Mr C Macsween and Mr C Elphicke. One of our attempts to publicise the Society has been thwarted by swine flu. We had been hoping to place our newsletters in the waiting rooms of local surgeries but in many of them magazines have been banished for fear of cross-infection. We offer our grateful thanks to Muriel Goulding who has faithfully delivered newsletters in central Dover for many years but must now resign due to ill health. The following members have died recently and we offer our condolences to their families and friends: - Mr P Hargrave, Mrs J Hinton, Mr D Beecham, Dr R J Davis, Mr P Johnson, Mrs P Shaw and Mr Dick Whittamore. SOCIETT We are always looking for volunteers. If you like fresh air, good company PROJECTS and doing a bit of good for Dover phone me on 01304 211348 for details. Report by Jeremy Cope Working party dates are as follows h dear! This winter the weather 9.00am to 12.30pm Ohas been against us at the Thursdays Saturdays Cemetery. Rain in December, with 6th May 15th May the loss of a morning's work and then 3rd June 12th June snow in January ensured that we 1st July 10th July didn't even get around to thinking 5th August 14th August about working parties. Very 2nd September 11th September disappointing but I am optimistic that 7th October 16th October February onwards will be dry enough 4th November 13th November to enable us to get back to work. 2nd December 11th December The following two articles published in Bygone Kent, March 1999 also appear in Mike Igglesden's book 1930-56. Mike is living in Perth, Western Australia and has been since 1956 but still follows all things Dovorian with great interest. f 1944 RETURN TO DOVER ^ Harold Terrace and then 18 Frith Road ^ ------by Mike Igglesden ------' ou can't possibly live 'ere". The standard. What to do? No decisions removal man, even after had to be made. We were home. We experiencing three years of housing had left Dover in 1936 and were back. conditions in wartime Britain, was Mother entered the downstairs door aghast at the view which met his eyes leading into the kitchen. One step upon arrival at our future home in into the room and crunch, her left Harold Terrace, Dover. It was a foot disappeared under the somewhat daunting sight. Our floorboards. Dry rot. What a terraced house had lost its left-hand misnomer is that description of a neighbour, which had been nearly reason for wood decay. Upon removed by a bomb or shell, investigation, we discovered that apparently a year or so before. The there were few tiles remaining in rubble and small sections of place on the roof. Over a period of remaining walls of this casualty of time the rain had descended from war were already being claimed by a floor to floor, soaking and dislodging vigorous growth of tall green weeds much of the lath and plaster ceilings and rambling plants of various and rendering portions of the floors species. very unsafe with this 'dry rot'. Spirits were not exactly buoyed by the There was a roll of old linoleum lying climatic conditions of the day. It was in the hall. Ever resourceful, Dad early winter 1944. It was late grabbed a hammer and a bag of flat afternoon. It was cold. It was raining headed nails from his tool box, carted, hard. We were also tired from our with help from his two sons, the lino journey from outer Western London upstairs and nailed it to the underside where we had spent the war years of the rafters in such a fashion as to until now. direct most of the rain water out But we were fortunate. There were through the glassless 'window'. many people of that era who also Meanwhile the furniture was would have given anything to have unloaded into the first floor rooms been in the position of assuming and set down on builder's planks possession of accommodation of any placed across the floor, to avoid the repetition of Mother's unfortunate brambles and stinging nettles growing kitchen experience. Understandably, knee high all around her and some there were many months of builders even finding their way up through the coming and going before the house bottom planking. It was love at first was in any way weatherproof, or sight. The boat was instrumental in remotely in a condition which could, rekindling my infatuation with small today, be deemed acceptable for boats, which was to endure for a human habitation. But it was a place lifetime. of our own. Many people in that era In Dover we found preparations for D were not so fortunate. Day were well advanced. Boys with This of course, was of no great small boats not tolerated. Indeed, the concern to a 14 year old boy used to sea front was still covered in barbed seeing such situations and worse, in wire, concrete and steel anti tank London over the previous years. But - landing devices all along the beaches. next morning there was an object of Trucks and guns rumbled through the concern. In amongst the overgrown town. All the corners of the main garden across the road was the outline roads had previously been concreted of a boat. A boat of doubtful pedigree to reduce damage, which turning about 16 foot long, clinker built in track vehicles tended to impart on very poor condition with grass, normal bitumen surfaces.
f A History of the \ MARKET SQUARE BUSINESS ^ ------by Mike Igglesden------building that escaped major in 1760, and they had a family of five A damage was the shop in the daughters and four sons. John was Market Square. It had been in the made a Deacon of the Baptist Church family since 1788. In 1736 a certain in 1781. He died in 1824 aged eighty John Igglesden was born in eight years. Writing in his history of Tfenterden, Kent. He became a Master the Dover Church, the Reverend Mariner, making many voyages to Benjamin Martin wrote: 'The above America, probably transporting family form a very pleasant part of the migrants to the New World, but by the congregation, most being either age of fifty-four he had had enough of members or hearers.' the sea and retired to Dover where, amongst many other interests, he I can imagine the excitement of those became a gunner at the castle. During ‘members and hearers' together with this time he married Elizabeth Nash, the other citizens of Dover four years later, when in 1786, lifting off from There is a preponderance of the castle, the first successful hot air Benjamins, Johns and Marys in our balloon crossing of the Channel was branch of the family. Double checks accomplished. The world was getting on dates (where possible) have to be smaller. made to keep one on the research It was John and Elizabeth Igglesden's straight and narrow! We have a eldest son John who in 1788, aged sampler sewn by a Jane Igglesden, twenty one, opened the bakery aged 6, beautifully worked. It must business in the Market Place. This have been hard on the eyes making year, 1788 was also a year well such fine stitches. The Victoria and established in British history as it was Albert Museum suggested it was done then that the 'First Fleet' of eleven approximately 1790 to 1800. ships sailed for Australia loaded with John Bourne Igglesden died (at an 770 men, women and children, early age of forty years) in 1836 and deemed to be undesirables by English his brother Benjamin took over the Society. The voyage lasted 251 days bakery. He and his wife Mary (whose and it must have been a horrific father, according to their marriage journey for these convicts. certificate, was a Master Miller) lived John married Amy Mash in 1791 and, over the shop with their children, like his father before him, was made a Jane, Benjamin, George, Frances and Deacon of the Baptist Church. Of their Clara. The 1861 census shows six children John Bourne and Benjamin as a Master Confectioner Benjamin were both to carry on the who remains 'head of the household' business. John Bourne was deeply aged fifty six. Son Benjamin Alfred involved in the Baptist Church and now aged twenty seven, baker, was, apparently, a very well respected married his cousin Mary Bourne on member of the community. He was 4th June of that year. George, the made a Freeman of the Borough as, in second son, now aged twenty three, fact, were many Igglesdens over the was to become a watchmaker and years. Looking ahead to 1816 ten jeweller with three shops in Snargate Igglesdens subscribed to a fund for Street. The excellent article by building a new chapel in Adrian Street. Margaret Mustard entitled' The It is now the Unitarian Church and Igglesdens of Dover and Ashford' was completed 1820. Plaques around ('Bygone Kent' Vol.5 No.5) mentioned the walls testify to the Igglesdens' the fact that when George Igglesden, many years of commitment to the watchmaker and jeweller, married, he Baptist faith. Ivan Green, in his book and his family lived in the Dour 'Dover Pictorial History', described it House, River, Dover. When my family as 'a great treasure, being one of the and I rented an old house in the same few remaining early, almost unaltered, area in 1974 it was, and still is, named 19th century Preaching Houses'. The Dour House. Until I read the WEDDING CAKES, in 7 Market Place with Alt Jhrk-es, 1mm :>/6. his wife Mary (nee Bourne), and children ii«»? Cafes ... *S itt si Hfe. W'xVHftg take .>. i K> « ... !» !*» ft 36Mk.
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— 1st Hdk The Royal Pavilion at Folkestone A talk by Ruth Parkinson reported by Terry Sutton ecrets buried under the Grand disappointed to hear about her SBurstin hotel at Folkestone were research on the Royal Pavilion. revealed in words and screened She told us the Royal Pavilion Hotel photographs by artist Ruth Parkinson was a 400-bedroom establishment at our public meeting at St Mary's built near the harbour, on reclaimed Parish Centre in November. land. She related how, when she first Miss Parkinson was listed to speak on moved to Folkestone, she discovered a the Lord Warden Hotel at Dover and door at the back of the Burstin which the Royal Pavilion at Folkestone but made her investigate further. She was our chairman Derek Leach explained given the run of the hotel and made that a problem had arisen about the many finds in the cellars and talk on the Lord Warden Hotel, which elsewhere. Much of the Royal Pavilion many of us felt was a pity. It is was demolished to make way for the understood this problem arose Burstin although, she said, sections of because the owners of the old Lord the old hotel were still "crudely Warden Hotel demanded a fee to attached." allow Miss Parkinson to tour the Her investigations around the cellars building, now known as Southern and other parts of the Burstin House. However, we were not persuaded her to undertake some research looking at the guests who had just crossed the Channel from over the years stayed at the Royal Boulogne to Folkestone, included Pavilion, which gained its “Royal" Charles Dickens, William Makepeace prefix following a visit in 1855 by Thackeray, the Punch cartoonist John Queen Victoria when she was Leach, Prince Albert, the Duke of inspecting troops at Shorncliffe. Wellington, the King of Sardinia Folkestone newspapers each week (1855) as well as a number of princes listed guests staying at the Pavilion and counts. Dickens in one of his and other Folkestone hotels, and books wrote about the Royal Pavilion these showed that members of the but disguised it as Pavilionstone. European financial Rothschild family Miss Parkinson said it was a great pity were regular guests. Charlotte that the Royal Pavilion was Rothschild wrote many letters from demolished and, she understood, that the Pavilion about fellow guests at one stage the holiday camp pioneer including how much luggage they Billy Butlin wanted to buy it. “It's a had. pity he didn't," commented Miss Other notable guests, many of whom Parkinson.
2nd Tfolk Mayor’s Eye View A talk by Right Worshipful the Town Mayor of Dover Councillor Mrs Susan Jones reported by Alan Lee
n her talk to the Dover instituted in the 13th ISociety, her 198th century, 1495, and 1572. engagement, the Mayor The Mayor's seal has Councillor Susan Jones always been different detailed the history, from that of the town. responsibilities and The first recorded use of present day duties of the the title Mayor in Dover Town Mayor. can be traced to a charter The Mayoral seal used dated 1257. The mayor today is the forth was acknowledged as the different design and first citizen, had a council shows St. Martin sharing to assist him and was the his cloak with a beggar at custodian of the peace the gates of Amiens. Previous seals, and a magistrate. Over the years the all with a similar theme, were Mayor has held some interesting and unusual powers. In TUdor times he The other office the mayor holds at could regulate the size of loaves, seize present is Speaker of the any that were the wrong size and Confederation of Cinque Ports. This pillory the baker. By the 17th century non-elected post passes each year the Mayor was also the chairman of around the Head Ports only, from the council, chief magistrate, coroner, west to east. The title of this post clerk of the market, keeper of the gaol, dates from the 12th century and is creator of freemen and admiral of the older than its only other counterpart port. He could compel people into Speaker of the House of Commons. service and deal with dyers suspected Tbday the role of mayor acts as a focal of using logwood in dying and it was point and a link for the town, its not until 1836 that his power to pass citizens and various local bodies. The the death sentence was removed. authority of the Mayor and the town The council became an elected body are recognised by the mace, chains, with the municipal corporations Act robes and other regalia of office. This of 1835. This gave every registered also forms a connection between the occupier of rated premises a vote. past and the present. At this time the office of Mayor was Mrs Jones gave the audience her only open to men of means as all reasons why she was proud to have expenses of office were paid for by been chosen as Mayor, and then went him including the Tbwn Clerk's salary on to describe some of the many and any souvenirs he presented. engagements she had carried out. Some were very formal such as on By the Victorian era he was relieved Remembrance Sunday, the dedication of many of his singular of a further 22 names on the war responsibilities and took on the more memorial and her installation as traditional roles of a chairman. Speaker of the Cinque Ports. More During the first half of the 20th unusual for her was riding the century the role of Mayor slowly dodgems with the Mayor of Margate, at changed so that wealth and power their carnival, and racing the Mayoress were no longer the prime on space hoppers at the launch of the requirement. By 1960 Dover had its Girl Guides Centenary Celebrations. first lady mayor, and since then Summing up her role Mrs Jones said another ten, all still are officially that there was no room for armchair addressed as Mister Mayor. critics. Nevertheless there are many In 1974 with the creation of the groups and individuals who are District Council Dover as a Cinque ready and willing to help in the Port and town lost its uniqueness. It regeneration of Dover with the Mayor was to be twenty-two years before acting as the catalyst in bringing them Dover had a town council again. all together. The Future of Roman Dover • • • by Derek Leach • • •
here appears to be a strong emphasis known that a harbour wall and possibly Tin the well-intentioned efforts to baths were buried in the vicinity of the regenerate Dover by 'cashing in' on the town centre. Bavington Jones' popularity of Dover Castle by improving 'Perambulation of Dover', published in communication, possibly a cable car, 1907, mentions a tessellated Roman between the town and the castle in the pavement some ten feet under the hope that castle visitors will also make the market place. effort to visit the town centre and spend some money in our few remaining shops. Tbwards the end of the Second World War the Dover Excavation Committee was I wonder whether this strategy to attract formed with the aim of examining some tourists should be supplemented by of the razed sites before rebuilding in an better promotion and access to the town's attempt to discover more about the town own incredible heritage. There are a in the Roman period. As early as 1946 the number of medieval buildings in Dover foundations of chalk built dwellings and a that any town would be proud to possess, Roman road were unearthed between including the Maison Dieu, St Edmund's Queen Street and Market Street. Chapel, St. Mary's Church and the remains of St. Martin's Priory. In any other town I am sure that the Western Heights fortifications, including the unique Grand Shaft Staircase, would be a major tourist attraction. But Dover could offer so much more. What of its extensive Roman remains, which are perhaps only famous in the archaeology world? Evidence above ground is the Roman Pharos (lighthouse) adjoining St. Mary in Castro and the small, sad remnant of its counterpart on the Western Heights known as the Excavations on other blitzed sites Bredenstone. Much more has been found revealed evidence of Roman and underground triggered initially by a medieval buildings. Roman evidence was number of discoveries in the 1950's found in the Market Square in 1949 and largely due to preparations for rebuilding later portions of a Roman building were on war-damaged sites and followed from uncovered on the west side of Market 1970 by the largest programme of Square. excavation in any British town. Excavations for the new National Union Dover was important to the Romans as a of Seamen offices in Snargate Street port and since Victorian times it has been (Maritime House) revealed portions of two Roman buildings. Both had walls of completeness of the upstanding civil and dressed chalk blocks lined with tufa. The military structures such as survive at larger had flint foundations overlaid with Dover.' This work went on non-stop until tiles but covered in a thick layer of soot, the end of the century with most of the whilst the smaller was on a bed of chalk discoveries saved for posterity. covered by a layer of reddish concrete containing broken tiles. All this is now The naval fort covered two acres and hidden behind a concrete wall. included 14 major buildings such as a granary and barrack blocks, metalled Plans for the dual carriageway, now roads, dozens of drains, sewers and water called York Street plus town centre mains. It was enclosed by a high redevelopment was seen by some as a defensive wall of chalk and tufa fronted major threat to Roman and other by a ditch. Five hundred tile fragments remains. Fortunately, Dover Corporation stamped 'CLBR' proved it to be the base of and the New Dover Group invited the the Romano-British fleet, which used the Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit (KARU), safe haven of the Dour estuary between led by Brian Philp, to dig on the line of the the cliffs where Roman lighthouses were new road, construction of which involved built. Evidence of a Roman harbour, the destruction of dozens of houses, comprising substantial timbers, had been shops, schools and pubs. An intensive found in 1855 under what was, until crash programme of excavation and recently, the East Kent bus garage plus recording, covering some eight acres, was the small Roman quay found in the 1950's launched in 1970. It also resulted in the in Stembrook. Eventually this Roman level of the new York Street being raised harbour was blocked by silt and sand six feet in a last minute battle to avoid dunes. The Roman fleet left Dover soon damaging the Roman remains below. This after 200AD and the naval fort was was followed by excavating three acres of abandoned. the ancient town centre ahead of development. A derelict site on the north side of Market Street, designated for a multi-storey car The rewards were more than 50 major park, which was never built, was structures of varying periods, 100,000 excavated, revealing traces not only of a significant objects from 4,000 years of late Roman fort wall, but also the painted domestic rubbish, a fine collection of wall of a Roman house. Over the next few coins, tiles, brooches, metal fittings, glass years the fort wall, the bastion, the and pottery - as well as the most defensive ditch to the west and the rooms complete Roman fort ever found in of the house were revealed. The existence southern Britain. Before 1970 none of the of this fort had been predicted by Sir archaeological excavation in Dover had Mortimer W heeler in 1929, based on really indicated the grand scale and observations by a local man named Amos completeness of acres of fine Roman but it could not be found at that time. In buildings. Many walls still stand, deeply 1970 it was discovered after just two hours buried, to a height of four to six feet with only seven feet from Sir Mortimer's three major buildings of about nine feet. predicted line. He celebrated by going out By 1973 Brian Philp could say, 'No other to buy a new hat and from then on was a Romano-British town can match the regular visitor to the excavations. Three hundred feet of the south and west walls wall and a large bastion are now on were traced, comprising a defensive wall display in the Painted House. 10 feet thick and 15 feet high, reinforced by great stone bastions at intervals and by Tbday parts of five important rooms can a ditch nearly 40 feet wide and ten feet be seen with thick flint and tile walls, deep. strong concrete floors and under-floor heating. Of special interest are some 400 This fort was built at the end of the third square feet of finely painted wall plaster, century AD by the Roman army, centred the best-preserved in situ Roman plaster on Market Street and ignoring the site north of the Alps. where the ruins of the second century naval fort stood. It was built to combat the Once excavated the Painted House was ever-increasing Saxon raids. reburied, but in 1975 it was unearthed and opened for public viewing. With so What we now know as The Roman much public interest a preservation Painted House, off New Street, was one of scheme was launched, the Painted House several found later between the north Trust was set up and work began on a gate of the Classis Britannica naval fort building to cover the site. It opened in and the Roman harbour. It proved to be a May 1977 and the scheme soon attracted fine, large house of brick and flint four national awards. comprising at least six rooms. The large rooms had under-floor heating and the 25.000 fragments of Roman wall were internal walls were plastered and painted painstakingly put together, resulting in in bright colours. Walls in two rooms had wall paintings to ceiling level. By 2000 survived to six feet high complete with 570.000 visitors from all over the world painted plaster. The red mortar floors of had visited the Painted House including the Roman house were only 12 feet below Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. The present ground level. In addition the house is open to the public from April to walls of an earlier, smaller Roman September each year. building consisting of at least three rooms In 1979 one of the biggest and most was found underneath. complete Roman military bathhouses in The Painted House was erected about southern Britain was discovered by the 200AD as part of a high quality building, KARU, which was opened to public view possibly a 'hotel' for notables passing temporarily. It was 60 feet by 120 feet through Dover. With other buildings it with at least 10 rooms and with walls, in a formed part of the civil area outside the remarkable state of preservation, North Gate of the great Roman naval fort. surviving up to 14 feet high. Part of the In about 270AD the Romans constructed south gateway to the Classis Britannica the new (anti-Saxon) shore fort across the fort was found in Albany Place. In 1983 area containing the Painted House to another large Roman building comprising replace the old naval fort. The upper four rooms with a substantially complete section of the house was demolished, a hypocaust system was found and thought large defensive wall built through two to be possibly an extension of the Painted rooms and the rest buried beneath House. Excavations under the derelict demolition rubble. This catastrophe Market Hall in the Market Square enabled the paintings to survive. The fort revealed more Roman remains including 23 a 15 feet high wall presumably built to repel Saxon invaders. An exciting find in 1984 consisted of seven signet ring Roman gemstones, known as intaglios, in a large drain carrying wastewater from the bathhouse. Four more were found the next year, possibly lost by soldiers during their ablutions. During the 1980's there were exciting plans to extend the Painted House scheme to include the adjacent Roman military bathhouse and the Saxon and Norman churches under a proposed shopping precinct. Planning consent was granted in 1988, but the scheme was overtaken by the plans for the White Cliffs Experience. This created difficulties between the Painted House Tixist and KARU on the one hand and the District Council on the other. Despite counter proposals for a more modest Roman Heritage Centre, the grandiose and expensive White Cliffs Experience was built with its foundations From 1991 two archaeology groups penetrating Roman remains. worked in Dover. KARU continued its valuable work (finding, for instance, the 1994 saw a fine example of continued home of the Commandant of Classis instant rescue work by KARU. Workmen Britannica at Albany Place, comprising were digging a new soakaway outside the two rooms richly decorated with painted north door of St. Mary's Church. Joe walls and the remains of a heating Harman kept a close eye because he system). knew that in 1778 Roman walls had been In 1994 the Canterbury Archaeological found under the west end of the church. Trust worked in advance of the As soon as the ancient remains came to construction of the new A20 from light he alerted staff in the Painted House Folkestone to Dover. In Bench Street at its who arrived within five minutes. junction with Tbwnwall Street, in addition Subsequent excavation revealed part of a to medieval finds, were the remains of a major Roman building in the churchyard, massive Roman timber harbour wall. probably comprising at least three rooms with an elaborate underfloor heating Whilst some of these finds must inevitably system in the main room. A massive remain underground, surely there is mortared wall with many courses scope for a Roman heritage and composed of Roman tiles, chalk blocks interpretation centre, linking the Painted and flints still stood five feet high. House with the Discovery Centre (with its Fragments of painted wall plaster are on underground remains). Or is this another display in The Painted House. opportunity that Dover will pass by? 1st TMk Mr Rolls, Mr Royce and Mr Johnson A talk by Christine Waterman reported by Terry Sutton
he early links of the famous Rolls- Henry Royce at one time lived, with TRoyce Company with the Dover the help of his nurse, in Granville and Deal area have been highlighted Road, St Margaret's Bay, while his as a result of research for this year's engineers stayed at Sea Street at St centenary celebrations of the first Margaret's. “there and back" aircraft flight of the Further more it was at St Margaret's English Channel. that the first Rolls-Royce aero engine, The Honourable Charles Rolls flew The Eagle, was designed. More than from Swingate to France and back 4,000 were made. Rolls-Royce engines again to Swingate in June 1910. are now being used in the aircraft industry throughout the world. Miss Christine Waterman, a Vice President of The Dover Society, is the There was one story, said Miss District Council's Director of Waterman, that Royce was not Housing, Tourism and Culture, and as interested in flight, only motor cars. such is responsible for local He declined to make engines for celebrations recalling Rolls' flight aircraft until one day he was shown Miss Waterman MBE, the speaker at an airship battling against the wind to our January meeting at St Mary's cross the Channel. parish centre, has carried out detailed His companion asked Royce could he research into the life of Charles S. not make a better engine than that on Rolls and his association with the Rolls-Royce Company. Her talk was entitled Mr Rolls, Mr Royce and Mr Johnson and their connections with White Cliffs Country. Mr Claude Johnson, a managing director of Rolls-Royce, lived at one stage at Kingsdown. Miss Waterman revealed that Henry Royce at Claude Johnson's house. Courtesy of Christine Waterman. the airship. The challenge was too T&lks were in progress to get up to 100 much and so Rolls-Royce aero engines Rolls-Royce motor cars lined up on were born. the sea front at Dover while the Rolls' memorial statue would be The main subject of Miss Waterman's refurbished. It was not meant to be talk was on the life and times of green, she said! There would also be Charles Rolls, the son of a wealthy an exhibition at Dover Museum. Monmouthshire family. She traced his education, his degree in Dover is not the only place engineering, his great interest in celebrating Rolls. His home town of speed-first on bicycles, tricycles, Monmouth will be recalling his birth, motor cars, balloons, and eventually the Isle of Sheppey will be flight. remembering the earliest days of flight in the UK while Bournemouth It was possible, she said, that he was will be commemorating his death in in Dover to await the first flight of the an air show accident 40 days after his English Channel by Louis Bleriot, a Channel flight. year before his own epic crossing. While waiting and preparing for his Rolls, who held the second UK pilots' flight at Swingate, Rolls stayed with licence, was the first Briton to die in the governor of the military prison an air crash. then at Langdon Cliffs. It is likely that Rolls initially never intended to fly to France and back but once over France, where he dropped a letter of greetings to French aviators, he decided to turn round and head back to Dover where his ground crew were surprised by his return. Miss Waterman told of Rolls' earlier visit to Dover, in 1899, when he and one of his cars took part in a car show at Crabble Athletic Ground and a race around the perimeter circuit. There was a car procession marshalled by Sir Henry Crundall.
Looking ahead to this summer's celebrations, to be held on 5th and 6th June, Miss Waterman said she hoped to organise a re-enactment of the Crabble event. 26 2nd Thlk Dover Castle Renewed A talk by Steve Lang, English Heritage, Head of Visitor Operations, Dover Castle reported by Alan Lee
n the second talk of the evening King of France, Louis VII, on ISteve Lang, Head of Visitor Shakespeare Beach, one of the first Operations, Dover Castle outlined the state visits. Having nowhere locally to reasons for the converting of the Keep entertain Louis he decided he had to into the Great Tbwer experience. show his importance and if pilgrims and dignitaries from across the Henry II, born at Le Mans 5th March Channel were to be more frequent he 1133, was one of the most powerful needed to be able to receive them in kings to rule England but not one of the proper fashion. He therefore built the most famous. He was nineteen the castle tower as a royal residence. when he married Eleanor of Aquitaine, the greatest heiress in The Keep Tbwer built in 1181 is the Western Europe. They had eight largest in Britain and the last example children, the most famous being of an Anglo-Norman domicile. Very Richard I, Coeur de Lion [Lionheart] old fashioned for the time when it was and King John of Magna Carta fame. built it was not for defence but as a At Westminster Abbey on 19th showpiece for Henry's power and December 1154 Henry became the influence. The Keep is four storeys first King of England. Before that the high, it contains the basement title was King of the English. Henry cooking area and the second floor, died at Chinon on 6th July 1189. spanning two storeys, form the royal accommodation. There are two The catalyst for improving Dover chapels, both with eye-catching Castle came in 1179 when he met the stained glass windows. The lower 27 chapel is in Gothic style, the upper or Thomas Becket's Chapel of Norman style, richly decorated. This is unique to Dover Castle. The restoration cost almost £2.45 million, involved two years of research and took 140 artists and craftsmen about 18 months to complete. They spent thousands of hours on the design and making 80 pieces of furniture, dozens of embroidered textiles and 140 metres of wall hangings. They crafted 21 new oak doors and more than 1,000 other objects. Clever use of projected virtual reality figures, including the King, add a further impact to the completed work. The furniture and furnishings contain a surprising amount of colour. The beds seem unusual and are small by today's standards. In Henry's reign people would not lie down to sleep. They were afraid that if they fell asleep and their mouths opened the devil would enter their bodies. With a shorter bed they could sleep in more of a sitting position and this would not happen. One of the fine 180-foot long wall hangings, inspired by the Bayeux T&pestry, depicts the Norman Conquest and another the story of 30 people 28 who lived in the Great Tbwer. Major challenges were the limit on the type of stitches, the use of crewel wools and silk floss and the deliberate use of imperfect stitches to replicate those of the period. Steve then mentioned some of the little known facts that had came to light in the research of the period. A great favourite at the castle was Roland the Farter. He so entertained the king over the years that when he retired he was given 30 acres of land. There were very few men accompanied by their wives at the castle. This led to the employment of a Marshal of the Court Whores who was in charge of the prostitutes. Alys, Countess of Vexin had, in 1169, become betrothed to Henry's son Richard the Lionheart. Whilst Richard was away in the Holy Land Henry took her for his mistress and by 1177 this had became an open scandal at court. After Richard came to the throne he terminated their engagement in 1191 on the grounds that she had borne a child by his father. She went back to France in 1195. Steve Lang finished by outlining future plans for Dover Castle and answering questions about his talk from members of the audience. Su lliv a n & Son Independent Funeral Service Family concern Traditional & alternative funerals Eco-friendly & Golden Leaves low-cost funerals pre-paid funeral plans Serene Chapel of Rest Free home visits & quotations 24hour personal service All areas covered EXCLUSIVE LOCAL PROVIDER OF THE ‘COFFIN COVER’
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or the last year one of our aside for military burials and for Fmembers, Mr Martyn Webster, has Roman Catholics. been attempting to have the four The Hebrew Congregation of Dover, cemeteries at Copt Hill, Old Charlton though counting amongst the earliest Road included on the above register. in the United Kingdom did not have a In January this year he received the burial ground in Dover until 1868. news that the application had been Donated by the Wardens of Dover turned down. The Heritage Protection Harbour Board it is set in a walled Co-ordinator, South Team, Dolores enclosure south-west of St James's Keane, replied, "The Register is a Cemetery. The ohel (prayer hall at selective list of designed ornamental burial ground) burnt down sometime landscapes which are considered to he of after 1937. 'special historic interest' in the national context, and is compiled with reference to Tfen acres of land, to the south-west, exacting criteria. We have considered all purchased at a cost of about £2,000, representations made, and completed the opened on 21st May 1870 to become assessment of the site, English Heritage the new St Mary's Cemetery. This had has decided that the site falls short of separate Anglican and Nonconformist being of national importance and does mortuary chapels, both later not merit inclusion on the Register." demolished, a lodge and entrance gates by Stacey and Sons of Dover. With the Burials Act of 1853 and the population of Dover over 20,000 the Charlton Cemetery located on the Burial Board of St James's Parish, in opposite side of Old Charlton Road 1854, decided to build a new opened on 10th October 1872 on ten cemetery at Copt Hill. At the cost of acres of land purchased from the £1,200, six acres of Crown lands were Crown for £2500. This included twin purchased and two receiving chapels Mortuary Chapels designed by T and a superintendant's lodge were Tklbot Bury of Dover, now a private erected. All are now demolished. The residence (Grade II), a lodge and cemetery opened on 29th January ornamental iron gates, by Mr R W 1855; later, special sections were set Pierce. 31
St James is laid out with curved paths iron railings by way of Old Charlton and has mature trees including Road. Most of the marked graves are Douglas firs, Irish yews and Copper at the top of the hill. There is a Beeches. The memorials are typical memorial to six victims of the sinking examples of monumental masons' of the Netherlands American Steam craft and include several to notable Nav. Co. ss W. A. Scholten in 1887. Dovorians. There is a memorial to This disaster produced the largest those who died in the Zeebrugge Raid burial of shipwreck victims in Dover of 1917 and an individual memorial to in peacetime by that date, many of Sir Roger Keyes, later Lord Keyes, the victims emigrant Jews bound 1872-1945, who led the raid and chose from Eastern Europe to America. Wall to be buried with his men. There is a tablets, re-located from the Dover Portland stone catafalque-shaped Synagogue and attached to the west Dunkirk Memorial and rows of wall, include one to the Rev Raphael I memorials to men who perished in Cohen, Minister to the Dover the Dunkirk landing. Other war Synagogue and founder circa 1848 of graves of the First and Second World Sussex House, a Jewish Boarding Wars are located in spaces throughout School in Dover. A single chest tomb the cemetery. in the centre of the site is to Blooma Cohen, wife of the Rev. Cohen. The rectangular Jewish Cemetery is bounded by a six feet high stone wall At St Mary's the lodge survives. The and entered through gate piers and cemetery is set with undulating paths, war cemeteries containing 40 or more graves, although most graves are in St James' Cemetery. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield it is a simple four point Latin cross mounted on an octagonal base. On the face of the cross is embedded a bronze sword, blade down, to represent the military character of the cemetery. circular plateaus mark the sites of the The cross represents the faith of the two mortuary chapels and there are majority of the dead. some attractive mature trees. The English Heritage has identified over memorials are typical of the 100 cemeteries thought to include the monumental masons' craft from the majority of the key examples of 1870s. There is an unusual memorial, cemetery design. The Copt Hill erected in 1916 by the F&O line, and assessment carried out against the six partly inscribed in Arabic to twenty- criteria for cemeteries laid out two Lascar Seamen who lost their between 1852 and 1914 threw up the lives in the sinking of the 12,000-ton following points: liner Maloja while on its way from Gravesend to Bombay. In total 155 The first of the criteria is that the lives were lost of which 58 bodies landscape should be of particular were brought ashore at Dover. historic interest in its own right. A number of earlier examples than Copt Charlton Cemetery is entered through Hill exist of Loudon's garden type elaborate Gothic style brick and stone landscapes, for example, Old piers and iron gates at the foot of the Southampton Cemetery of 1843. hill. Behind is the original brick The second is that the layout offers a cemetery lodge. There are specimens good example of the work of a designer of mature trees but generally the of national renown. There is no record memorials are typical and of the designer of any of the Copt Hill representative of their date. Re-sited Cemeteries. here from the old St Martin's churchyard in York Street is the The third is that the site includes a memorial to the poet Charles pioneering example of a landscape Churchill (1732-1764). The cemetery feature particularly associated with also contains the Cross of Sacrifice, cemeteries. Copt Hill does not have usually present in Commonwealth claims to such a landscape feature. 33 The fourth is that the cemetery has Listed at Grade I). Here both St James's structural planting of exceptional Cemetery and St Mary's Cemetery quality. Copt Hill contains a number have lost their cemetery chapels and of good quality mature trees, and is the Jewish Cemetery has lost its ohel. located in an attractive downland The conjoined pair of Church of setting with borrowed views but England and Nonconformist overall is not of exceptional quality. Mortuary Chapels at Charlton Cemetery are now converted into a The fifth is that there is strong social Grade II listed residence. context of particular value which is reflected in the landscape. Certainly Conclusion there is a local social context as many The Copt Hill Cemeteries, Dover, of Dover's citizens after 1855 were comprising St James's Cemetery opened buried in these cemeteries. However, in 1855, the Jewish Cemetery opened in many other cemeteries of the period 1868, St Mary's Cemetery opened in 1870 survive where the memorials are of and Charlton Cemetery opened in 1872 finer quality or which contain more are not recommended for designation. memorials to the deceased who are of However, although they do not meet the national importance. national standards for registration, individual cemetery structures and The sixth is that the structural elements memorials may qualify for statutory such as chapel(s), lodge(s), means of designation and the cemeteries may be enclosure, are, as a group, of exceptional suitable for the Local Planning Authority quality (these usually being Listed as to consider as a Conservation Area. buildings of special architectural or historic interest, with the main elements Case UID: 165657
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Barry Stewart Membership Secretary, Western Heights Preservation Society
2010 is going to be a busy one for the As ever your help and support is very society; it is our tenth anniversary much needed and appreciated and and we are planning new events and you are very welcome to come along an even bigger Open Weekend! and help at any of the workdays. We made a tremendous difference last On Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th June year, and we've got to keep it up to 2010 the Western Heights make sure those weeds don't get the Preservation Society will be holding better of us again! its annual Open Days. The Drop Redoubt will be open to the public, Don't forget to keep an eye on the along with the Grand Shaft. There website for any extra workdays and to will be displays and stalls and groups see what we have been up to recently. of Napoleonic re-enactors will carry www.dover-western-heights.org out drills and skirmishes to bring the Also check out the forum, the past back to life. password is kilroyll, then all you Marshals will be on hand across the need to is register, kilroyll is the site to answer any questions you may password you need to use each time have about the Western Heights, its you visit the forum. past and its future. At the AGM the following officers Please find below a list of dates for were elected: workdays 2010. We will meet each Chair Mike Eddy time at 10.30am along Drop Redoubt (No change) Road. Please do not hesitate to ask if Vice chair Jon Iveson you have any questions. (No change) Treasurer Paul Wells Sunday 18th April (No change) Sunday 16th May Secretary Tracy Stewart Sunday 30th May (extra for Open Days) (No change) Sunday 20th June Membership Sunday 18th July Secretary Barry Stewart Sunday 15th August (New office) Sunday 19th September Publications Debbie McKinnon Sunday 17th October (New office) Sunday 21st November EH Liaison John Guy Sunday 19th December (No change) St Nicholas Day Celebration ^ Fr. Peter Sherred ■— ..... —■ SecAmb Ambulance Chaplain, Dover Station he biannual Celebration and Ambulance Service, the Fire and TThanksgiving in word and song Rescue Services, Kent Air Ambulance, for the life and work of the Emergency Dover Lifeboat, the Coastguard and Services took place on the Feast of St Maritime Agency, Kent County Nicholas, December 6^; at the Council Emergency Services, Dover Church of Our Lady of Dover on the Counselling services, the Salvation Buckland Estate by kind permission of Army, Church in Society and the St the Catholic priest Fr John Panario. John Ambulance among others. Attended by the Chairman of Dover The Town Mayor symbolically made District Council Councillor Bernard the first cut of a magnificent cake, Butcher, the High Sheriff of Kent Mrs made especially for the occasion by Jane Rogers, a Deputy Lieutenant of Chrissie Whitnall this time round Kent The Lady Pender DL, the Right with a lifeboat theme, with the Worshipful the Tbwn Mayor of Dover, lifeboat coxswain present at the Councillor Mrs Sue Jones (also in her cutting ceremony. The Prime capacity as Speaker of the Cinque Minister's wife, Sarah Brown, sent a Ports), with her Mayoress Councillor message to be included in the Mrs Ronnie Philpott and other civic Programme in which she said, "The dignitaries, including Dover and Deal British emergency services are some MP Gwyn Prosser. of the greatest in the world and I'm The musical talent of The Fortuners, delighted that this special celebration a brass quartet from the Canterbury is being held to honour those who put area, as well as Dover's own chamber their lives at risk for others day after choir - the Pharos Choir - entertained day. Gordon and I have been the packed church and all humbled by all the emergency participated in a selection of well services workers we have met this known Advent songs and Christmas year and they and their colleagues carols. The most important people will be in our thoughts and prayers as attending were those from the they show their devotion to duty Emergency Services themselves, and throughout the festive season. Their a representative of the Emergency skills, dedication and courage are one Services gave each of the readings, of the things that make our country which combined both the sacred and great and I'm pleased to send our very the secular. Such representatives were warmest wishes to you and your drawn from the Police, the families this Christmas". St Nicholas also made an appearance hangings, suicides, infernos or at the event dispensing goodies in the whatever but when the call is form of chocolate coins to many of received, these people respond those attending. The Pianist for the immediately often putting their own event was Graham TUtthill and the lives in danger in the process. As the Narrator was Terry Sutton MBE. The Programme said “There when you need event also remembered the deaths of us; Free at the point of service". We the last three veterans of the Great should never take the members of the War who lived in the United Kingdom. Emergency Services for granted nor A retiring collection was taken and abuse the system they represent. We the magnificent sum of £400 was should feel privileged to live in a raised to send to the widow and four country where we are blessed with children of PC Bill Barker the police remarkable people who provide constable who was so tragically swept round the clock cover for us in our away by the dreadful floods in times of utmost need. They are, in Cumbria that occurred in November. short, the understated heroes and In 2007, a similar collection resulted heroines of our age. in payments being made to the 2011 should be the next scheduled families of each of the fire fighters occasion for such event and killed in the Atherstone on Stour appreciation is given to Fr John warehouse fire. Panario and the members of the Members of the Emergency Services church of Our Lady of Dover for expressed their appreciation for this hosting the last two of these events. celebration which, once again, To ring the changes a new venue will brought them altogether under one be considered for any future event of roof albeit for a relatively short period this nature. It is hoped a DVD of the of time. The purpose of the event is to latest event will be available shortly. raise and maintain public awareness of the role the Emergency Services play in all our lives and especially the work of the personnel of those services. 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ne of the early Dover Society children from the local primary school. Oprojects in 1993 was the restoration This worked well for several years but of Lydden pond. This was historically a recently for unknown reasons the pond watering hole for carriage horses and has started leaking very rapidly after later steam engines on the route between filling. Dover and Canterbury, with a steady A group of local people, known formally slope from one end to allow access. Long as Lydden Environment Group, has now time residents claim that problems with taken on restoration of the pond as a drying out of the pond started with either community project. This started last the duelling of the Lydden Hill summer with clearing of weeds, painting carriageway in the late 60's or the of the railings and bench, and siting of construction of the A2 bypass soon after. flower boxes in conjunction with an The pond is consequently now the Open Gardens day organised by Lydden responsibility of Kent Highways parish church. We have held several fund Department and regarded as a soakaway. raising events - an all day music event The Society's project aimed to get around with local talent, bat and bird box this classification by building a bund building, carol singing, quiz nights at The about half way across the pond, and then Lydden Bell, and a Christmas craft fair. lining the end nearest Lydden Hill with We hope to have raised enough funds to clay from a building site, plus siting of a complete the restoration by the summer. bench on the lawn nearby and the By then the pond should have dried out planting a willow tree with the help of completely. The plan is to install a butyl liner and underlay in the previously clay- 12th MAY (TBC) 7.30pm LYDDEN BELL lined part of the pond and plant reeds Quiz Night at the Lydden Bell and other indigenous water plants to (tel 01304 830296 to confirm) encourage wildlife. 5th JUNE AROUND THE VILLAGE One positive side effect of this project Garage Safari - this will be like a boot has been a greatly increased sense of fair but held in a few members garages or community in a village that has no gardens, no charge to buyers. central focus like a shop and has a 7th AUGUST 3pm-llpm strange triangular layout. VILLAGE HALL We are hoping to put on several events Music Event over the summer months, which will be Any Dover Society members who would great fun in themselves as well as like more information can email fundraisers for the pond project and [email protected] or tel: 01304 other ideas we have in the pipeline. 820713. The quiz nights are £5 including LATEST EVENT NEWS a supper, other prices are yet to be 24th APRIL 7.30pm VILLAGE HALL decided but on previous history will be Lydden's Got T&lent, talent show and free entrance, we like to make money photo competition from raffles, sales, teas etc.
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I/We could sometimes give practical help with the following (please tick boxes) Social events □ Writing for newsletter □ Projects e.g. clearance, surveys, photography 1 I Any other interests or expertise PROGRAMME 2010 Guests are welcome at all meetings except the Annual General Meeting which is for members only.
APRIL 19 Annual General Meeting Monday 7.30 Speaker: Mike Krayenbrink: “Dover Harbour Board and the Future"
MAY 26 Legal London Wednesday Morning: A guided walk visiting Round Church, Middle Tfemple Hall £20.00 and the Royal Courts of Justice. Refreshments Lunch: At your leisure (not provided) on Fleet Street where you will not included find cafes and pubs. Afternoon: A short coach tour and a walk through Lincolns Inn. Tbur finishing at around 4.30pm. Pick-ups: Frith Road, Girls Grammar 0800; Brook House Car Park 08.15; Railway Bell, Kearsney 08.30. Please note bus pick-up changes. Tb book please contact: Dover Society c/o Mrs Georgette Rapley, 29 Queen’s Gardens, Dover CT17 9AH Tfel: 01304 204514 Great interest has already been shown in this tour and as this is the only trip for this year please book early to avoid disappointment.
OCTOBER 18 Speakers: Wendi Atherton: “12th Century Life in the Monday 7.30 Constables Tbwer" Alistair Gould: “Renewable Energy at St Margaret's"
NOVEMBER 15 Speaker: Awaiting confirmation Monday 7.30 Brainstorming Session
DECEMBER 18 Christmas Feast Saturday This year will be a cold buffet. As usual the Christmas Feast will be 7.00 for 7.30 held in the Refectory at Dover College. The entertainment will be £22.00 Quodlibet. Price includes a sherry reception, wine, soft drinks. Tb book please contact: Dover Society c/o Mrs Patricia Hooper-Sherratt, Castle Lea, T&swell Street, Dover CT16 1SG Tfel: 01304 228129
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