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Koniks on Clarendon Field (Photograph by Paul Sampson) THE SOCIETY FOUNDED IN 1988 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 C h a ir m a n Derek Leach OBE, 24 Riverdale, River, Dover CT17 OGX Tfel: 01304 823926 Email: [email protected] V ice-C h a ir m a n Jeremy Cope, 53 Park Avenue, Dover CT16 1HD Tfel: 01304 211348 Email: [email protected] H o n . Secretary William Naylor, "Wood End", 87 Leyburne Rd, Dover CT16 1SH Tfel: 01304 211276 H o n . T reasurer Mike Weston, 71 Castle Avenue, Dover CT16 1EZ Tfel: 01304 202059 Email: [email protected]

M em bersh ip Secretary Sheila Cope, 53 Park Avenue, Dover CT16 1HD Tfel: 01304 211348

Social S ecretaries 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]

E d it o r Alan Lee, 8 Cherry Tree Avenue, Dover CT16 2NL Tfel: 01304 213668 Email: [email protected]

P ress S ecretary Tferry Sutton MBE, 17 Bewsbury Cross Lane, Whitfield, Dover CT16 3HB Tfel: 01304 820122 Email: [email protected] P l a n n in g Chairman Jack Woolford, 37 Albany House, Albany Place, Dover CT17 9AU Tfel: 01304 202578 Email: [email protected] Committee Mike Bayley, Margaret Robson, Alan Sencicle, Pat Sherratt, Sybil Standing, Mike Weston A rchivist Dr S.S.G. Hale, 34 Church Hill, Tfemple Ewell, Dover CT16 3DR Tfel: 01304 825670

M in u t e S ecretary Barbara Stapleton, Email: [email protected] Mobile: 07910 123259

W eb P age Mike McFarnell, Email: [email protected]

A dvertising S ecretary Jean Marsh, 31 Millais Road, Dover CT16 2LW Tfel: 01304 206123 Email: [email protected]

C om m ittee M em bers Maureen Morris, 15 Samphire Court, TUswell St, Dover CT16 1AJ Tfel: 01304 206091 Alan Sencicle, Email: [email protected] Pat Sherratt, Castle Lea, Taswell Street, Dover CT16 1SG Tfel: 01304 228129 Email: [email protected]

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2 EDITORIAL Alan Lee MARCH MEETING 5 Kent Greeters - talk by Peter Shaw Tferry Sutton 6 White Cliffs Countryside Partnership - talk by Melanie Wrigley Alan Lee APRIL MEETING 11 Annual General Meeting Derek Leach 15 Dover Society Financial Report Capt M. H. Weston 16 Dover Harbour Board - talk by Mike Krayenbrink & Bob Goldfield Alan Lee 19 REGENERATION Jeremy Cope 20 A YOUNG PERSON'S VIEW OF DOVER Denise Lee SOCIETY OUTING 21 Legal London - The Inns of Court Joan Liggett 25 SOCIETY PROJECTS Jeremy Cope 26 WESTERN HEIGHTS PRESERVATION SOCIETY 27 DOVER PRIDE Denise Lee 28 M. R. JAMES AND THE LORD WARDEN HOTEL Sherifa Rashidally 29 ZEEBRUGGE SERVICE ON ST GEORGE'S DAY 30 HERITAGE OPEN DAYS 33 BOOK REVIEW - 'S FIRST SOCCER CAPTAIN Derek Leach 34 A DOVER MAYOR Fr Peter Sherred 44 APPLICATION FORM FOR MEMBERSHIP f The ^Objectives 0/ ^ Editorial the Dover Society must report that Jack Woolford, founded in 1988. chairman of the planning • to promote high standards of Icommittee, is in hospital. Just after planning and architecture moving to his flat he suffered a fall and broke his arm. He is being well looked • to interest and inform the after and looking forward to leaving public in the geography, hospital and continuing his work for history, archasology, natural the Dover Society. We all wish him a history and architecture of the speedy recovery and hope to see him area soon. • to secure the preservation, protection, development and The report of the AGM is reproduced in improvement of features of full for the benefit of members who historic or public interest were unable to attend the meeting. • and commitment to the belief To any member requiring a lift or that a good environment is a anyone willing to provide one to our good investment. meetings could you please contact a The area we cover comprises the member of the committee. We will parishes or wards of Barton, endeavour to match your Buckland, Castle, Lydden, requirements. Tfemple Ewell, Maxton, Our chairman Derek Leach attended Pineham, Priory, River, St. the service and laid a wreath, on behalf Radigund's, Tbwn & Pier and of the society, at the Zeebrugge Tbwer Hamlets. memorial service on St. Georges Day. All members receive three This service gains in strength every Newsletters a year and in each year. year the Committee organises about ten interesting events - The next indoor meeting will take talks, tours, visits, Members' place at St. Mary's Parish Centre on Meetings and usually a 18th October. The speakers will be Christmas Feast. Wendi Atherton “12th Century Life in The Society gives Awards for the Constables Tower" and Alistair improvements to the area, Gould “Renewable Energy at St. monitors planning proposals Margaret's". and supports, joins in or Members are reminded that they can initiates civic projects and now book for this year's Christmas arts events. Feast with Patricia Hooper-Sherratt. The entertainment will be Quodlibet. To avoid disappointment please book that SEEDA will cease in 2012. Will as early as possible as the number of this mean an end to the cable car tickets are strictly limited. project, surely mainly intended to boost English Heritage visitors and Following initial representations from take car parking away from inside the the society to DDC a large crowd castle. It would have been of very enjoyed the centenary celebrations of limited benefit to the town. Let us Charles Rolls non-stop return flight to hope that the proposed new body, France. with a partnership of local interests The society is again assisting in the will bring more benefits to the town. Heritage Open Days event on the 11th The concrete waves on the sea front and 12th September. This is a great are well on the way to completion. If chance to visit buildings that are not any member has any comments on normally open to the public. the revamped area could you please The new government has announced submit them to the editor.

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ncreasing numbers of cruise with links with Nord Pas-de-Calais, Ipassengers coming ashore at was receiving financial help from Dover are seeking the help of Kent Europe through Interreg (Inter­ Greeters and more volunteers for the regional) funding. group are needed. Just who are Kent Greeters? Mr This was the message given at The Shaw explained they are volunteers. Dover Society public meeting at St He said, “Basically Kent Greeters are Mary's parish centre on March 15th people who love the area where they when one of our two speakers was live and are proud to pass on what Peter Shaw from Thanet, the they love about the area. They are director of operations of Kent often the first friendly face of Greeters. Mr Shaw told how the tourism," They are not professional international Greeters organisation tour guides added Mr Shaw. The started in New York 18 years ago volunteers have knowledge about with the formation of the Big Apple interesting facts of their area and are Greeters group, set up to show delighted to pass on this information visitors to the city the many to visitors. They are also able to attractions to be found there. The explain how the public transport scheme was so successful that the system of their area operates, advise idea crossed the Atlantic to Thanet on restaurants, places of (the first Greeters group in Europe) entertainment and historical centres and from there to the White Cliffs such as castles. Country (the Dover district). Those requesting the free services of The aim, said Mr Shaw, was for the a Greeter have to give at least 14 organisation to grow countywide in days notice so that the administrator time for the 2012 Olympics, when can locate the best Greeter to suit Kent can expect an increasing the requirements. Greeters must not number of visitors. There were now accept payment or tips and any about 60 members in Kent Greeters journeys must be by public transport and it was hoped to increase and not in private cars. membership to 100 by then. He Among the audience was Mrs Denise explained that Kent Greeters, now Smith of 4 East Cliff (01304 206458) who told there were, at that time, 16 because they had to bring other local members of Kent Greeters and members to Dover from Deal and that there were an increasing Sandwich to cope with the number number of requests from cruise of requests. passengers arriving at Dover who had been able to give 14 days notice * More information about Kent of their arrival at the port. She added Greeters can be obtained on more local Greeters were needed www. kent gre e ters .co.uk

2nd Ttdk White Cliffs Countryside Partnership A talk by Melanie Wrigley reported by Alan Lee

or the second talk of the evening reflect its changing role in managing FMelanie outlined how the WCCP green spaces in the White Cliffs area. came into being in 1989, originally The Heritage Coast stretches from for three years, with three staff and Dover to and Dover to seven funding sponsors. Kingsdown and includes areas of Now it has grown to thirteen staff beautiful landscape. These are the and thirty funding organizations. It nearest Heritage Coast areas to London has changed its name to and have the richest biodiversity of 'Partnership' instead of 'Project' to chalk downland anywhere.

Dexters grazing on St Martin's Battery Field 7

Dover cliffs. Photograph by Alan Lee The chalk cliffs are eroded in a grassland needs to be grazed by cattle different way at Dover from those at or horses; this is why they have been Folkestone. Here the chalk sits on introduced into the area. This has gaunt clay with its junction below sea resulted in a vast improvement in the level. This results in large falls of numbers of plants and wildlife seen. chalk from the cliffs. At Folkestone Dover and Shepway contain more the chalk joins the clay at sea level. than half of the chalk grassland in From the 1850's pebbles from the Kent, more than 2% of Britain's or Warren have swept round the coast to about 1 % of the world's. Dover and beyond. Chalk consists of 300 types of Old post cards of Warren Bay show plankton and 1 cm of chalk takes little islands of chalk, which have now 100,000 years to form. It is a little been eroded away. Fossils found in known fact that plankton produce Warren Bay are so good and consistent more oxygen in the sea than that that they are used to date the age of produced from all of the world's trees. sediments from around the world. We should therefore ensure that we The WCCP qualifies for Interreg protect the seas of the world. funding because it is twinned with Our ancestors were good naturalists two French regions, Cap Gris-Nez as they had to observe nature closely being one. in order to survive. Herbal medicines The Western Heights Nature Reserve evolved through the observation of consists of 200 acres of chalk land animals eating plants to cure around the Western Heights. All chalk themselves. |r v,; 1

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Cowslips at St Martin's Battery Pale Bee Orchid Early Spider Orchid A great many of the plants on the near these mounds that can have as Western Heights have medicinal many as forty different plants growing properties. Cowslips used for wine nearby. making and as a painkiller grow Thyme, used in mouthwash and around St Martin's Battery. Before yarrow are natural antiseptics. The Victorian times they were known as leaf of the hairy plantain relieves the the Cow Slop. pain of a sting. Salad burnet eases The word orchid derives from the blood problems and reduces fever and Greek orchis (testis) because of the the great napweed is used as a cough similarity of their tubers with a medicine. Hawthorn grows easily with mammalian testis. In ancient Greece its flower, May blossom. It smells of orchids were attributed curative and dead flesh and is named after the aphrodisiac properties. There are six month it blooms. Its leaves are good different types on the Heights, for the heart.Blackthorn is a coagulant, including the Bee Orchid. primrose a painkiller and coltsfoot helpful for treating asthma, bronchitis Horseshoe vetch is abundant on the and catarrh. During WWI soldiers used Heights and is essential to the Adonis to smoke blackthorn leaves as a Blue butterfly as the female only lays substitute for tobacco. its eggs on this plant. Tfen years ago the Adonis Blue was on the endangered Wild cabbage with yellow flowers and list but thanks to successful sea kale with white flowers are both management of its habitat by 2009 it abundant in the area. The Early Spider was removed from the list. Red Orchid is abundant at Samphire Hoe Meadow ants help as they look after with at least 12,000 there now. Many the pupae of the butterfly. They form plants that grow at the Hoe flower mounds with about 20,000 ants in each during early March, so a visit around colony. Wild thyme likes to grow on or that time is well worth the effort. In 1960/61 there were not many brought a dozen of the Koniks back bushes to be seen on the chalk from Holland, one of the main grassland. Hopefully with the way the breeding centres for the wild horses. area is now managed it will return to The Konik is a particularly interesting something like that again. breed of horse not much bigger than a It is home to many types of wild pony. It has a hardy, robust and self- animals such as voles, shrews, moles, reliant character, with a quiet tempera­ rabbits, badgers and the pygmy shrew. ment, and has a large head, broad body Among the wild birds in the area are and strong legs. The herd has its own sparrow hawks, ravens, peregrine hierarchy with every horse having its falcons, goldfinches, lapwings and own place in the pecking order. kestrels. In ancient times wild horses did not On the 9th of February 2010, the herd interact very much with humans. of Konik Horses was moved from High Today, the modern Konik horses are Meadow onto Whinless Down which is settling into their new homes in Kent also the only place in Kent you can at Stodmarsh, Ham Fen and Whinless find the scarce iridescent green Down. Forester Moth. TWo foals have been They are already proving to be a great born since the move, one on the 5th boost for the ecology of the areas. the other on the 12th of March. There Koniks help to keep the land open and are currently seven adults and two give plants, birds and insects the foals in the herd but more mares will chance to settle there. They love to eat hopefully foal by the early summer. weeds, reeds and grass, so helping to Wild horses once roamed throughout stimulate wildlife diversity in their Europe and England and are returning fenland and grassland habitats. to the South East after 7,000 years. The Photographs by Paul Sampson Konik horse is a direct descendant of the now extinct European horse, the Tkrpan. The breed nearly died out 100 years ago. In the nineteenth century, Polish farmers captured the last Tkrpan horses and crossed them with their own workhorses. The result was a strong, hard working and manageable horse, which they named the Konik. Now a century later, Kent's wildlife experts have Konik foal on Whinless Down Local Nature Reserve Su llivan & S on 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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www.sullivanandson.co.uk Golden I.eaves 11 A PitiL MKETIi 'J O Annual General Meeting of The Dover Society, 2010 ---- Report by the Chairman Derek Leach ------

his is my 6th annual report and I organisation called Civic Voice, T must say that the longer I stay in looking for a much smaller outfit the job as chairman, the busier both concentrating upon providing a the Executive and I seem to be. My national voice rather than supporting boss used to say that I created work - local societies like ours that are very perhaps I do but I don't think that it's much self sufficient. We shall debate just me! Unfortunately, there are an Executive motion regarding many issues that need addressing in membership of Civic Voice later. Dover today. Planning M embership Our Planning Committee under its Regrettably there has been a net drop tireless chairman, Jack Woolford, in membership in the past year from continues to monitor and comment around 450 to 425. Whilst this is still a upon every planning application for healthy number, it does not compare Dover and the surrounding villages. with Harwich, a similar-sized town, We still await progress on providing a where its Society's membership is new health facility, the long-awaited 1800. The more members we have, the redevelopment of Buckland Paper Mill stronger our voice becomes. So please and the St James' area - DTIZ now encourage relatives, friends and work back in the melting pot (let's hope that colleagues to join. Our thanks go to our an alternative with quality and style membership secretary, Sheila Cope. will emerge from the Asda ashes). The Now would you stand whilst we big screen in Market Square proved to remember those members who have be as ugly and as intrusive as we feared and has yet to attract an died in the past year. audience of any size. Another Civic Trust controversy was the bid put together Something of a bombshell was the for Dover by SEEDA, KCC, DDC, DHB financial failure of the Civic Trust, and EH for grants under the Sea which has provided a national voice Change programme to improve coastal for amenity societies for many years. resorts. No consultation was held until The Executive has had to consider the grants had been received and ring- purpose and financing of a successor fenced for specific projects which had to be match-funded locally. These formal proposals by DHB for included refurbishment of the Bleriot redevelopment of the Western Docks Memorial, the expensive and grand (called T2) and for restructuring of the furnishing of 's keep, a Harbour Board took up a great deal of new reception building for the castle, time in the last three months. These renovating the officers' mess, a proposals were considered so feasibility study for a cable car project important that we consulted the and yet another improvement to the membership by post (at a cost of sea front. We objected to spending £2m £170) about the Executive's recom­ on what is already an attractive mendations before finalising our promenade in front of Waterloo submissions to the Secretary of State at Crescent when so much of the town the end of March. Thank you to those centre is in desperate need of a facelift. who commented. We had already The money could not however be agreed in principle the Western Docks spent anywhere else. Concerned about T2 development with certain provisos, the cost effectiveness of the DDC wind most of which have already been met. turbine at Whitfield we discovered that Our formal submission to the it will take 55 years to recover the Secretary of State confirmed our capital and running costs! We fired a support but with a number of broadside at DDC for closing two of conditions. Regarding restructuring of Dover's public toilets without warning the Board, we covered all possibilities. in its attempt to transfer the cost to Whilst preferring to retain the status DTC and were pleased to see them quo, ie Trust Port status, we considered reopened. DDC's Local Development this unrealistic in the present Framework for the years to 2026 was economic climate with any approved by government including government looking to sell some of the 14,000 new homes in the District and family silver and the need for the an expectation of 6,500 new jobs. We Board to borrow money for T2 can but hope! development without increasing the We welcomed the occupation of large national debt. In which case we empty premises by Peacock and then suggested an amended Trust Port Morrison, but remain despondent status with the ability to borrow about the 26 empty premises between money without increasing the national Tbwnwall Street and the Tbwn Hall. debt and enabling the Board to support the local community financially via a The unauthorised enclosure of some charitable trust. If the government land, including an established public opted for privatisation, then we would right of way, has resulted in the prefer retaining a 51% share in the Executive taking steps to protect the new company with a number of path. A motion to that effect will be provisos which applied equally to put to you later this evening. 100% privatisation, including Considering our response to the guaranteed income for a charitable trust managed by and for the Consultation community and an employee share We continue to be consulted on a scheme. range of topics by DDC, DTC, the Chamber of Commerce and, of course, Initiatives DHB. We have welcomed the Frustrated with the state of the town enthusiasm of our mayor, member Sue centre with its empty and boarded up Jones for our move to restore the Ibwn shops, litter, cycling in the pedestrian Hall, which is one of our long-term precinct and other antisocial projects. We have discussed with Sue behaviour, we have formed a and the Museum a joint approach to Refurbishment Committee, which has provide guided tours to raise public quickly identified targets for lobbying awareness of the building, parts of and improvement. English Heritage is which are not normally seen. We have undertaking a survey of Dover's buildings to review listed buildings and agreed in principle to the possible erection on the Western Heights of a whether other buildings should be listed. Our Refurbishment Committee memorial to the 1,700,000 is conducting its own review. commonwealth troops from 54 countries who died in both world wars. Following an unsuccessful attempt by During consultation about the state of member Martyn Webster to have the some retail properties between Bridge Copt Hill cemeteries listed by English Street and Beaconsfield Road it was Heritage, we are now investigating the agreed that conversion to residential possibility of a conservation area use would be a significant instead and possibly listing some of improvement. We were also consulted the headstones. We have also taken an about a major project to regenerate interest in St. Mary's Churchyard Ostend's East Bank with an where all trace of the grave of Thomas interpretation centre and monument Pattenden, a Dover diarist, was to the 1918 Zeebrugge Raid. removed in the 1990's. Tb remedy this we are erecting one of our blue More of the same plaques on St. Mary's Parish Centre Now I turn to what you may call 'more overlooking the churchyard. of the same' - regular activities which Our efforts continue regarding the are part and parcel of The Society and refurbishment of the 20 historic panels perhaps taken for granted, but no less around the town, some of which are in important for that. desperate need. DTC has agreed to pay Social programme for three and we have offered to pay Our winter series of meetings for another - about £400 each. continue to be well supported and I Another neglected area of our town is thank Patricia Sherratt, Jack Woolford, its Roman remains and we have taken Georgette Rapley and the happy band the first step to raise awareness of their of kitchen helpers - not to mention the potential. wine waiter for all their hard work. Once again support for most of the and Bob Hollingsbee's fascinating summer outings was disappointing archive. Tterry Sutton's regular press and so we are only having one this reports helps to keep The Society in summer although members will be the public eye. welcome to join the Friends of Dover Events Museum on their outings. As usual I represented The Society at Projects the St. George's Day commemoration Our regular working parties at of the Zeebrugge Raid and we also laid Cowgate Cemetery, led by Jeremy wreaths at the Remembrance Services Cope, continue to keep the whole at the Town war memorial and at The cemetery attractive as a haven for Society's plaque to the Unknown wildlife and for people, both living and Warrior at the Western Docks. Having dead. There is always a warm lobbied DDC several years ago to welcome to new workers. The Society commemorate the centenary of the continues to play a leading role in the first successful flight across the River Dour Steering Group and we Channel and to refurbish Bleriot's continue to coordinate and publicise landing site, five of us were delighted arrangements for Dover properties to to represent The Society on the day. be open free of charge on a weekend in September under the national C onclusion Heritage Open Days umbrella. These One administrative change was that are increasing every year and St Bill Naylor relinquished the task of Radigund's Abbey was added in 2009. Minutes Secretary when Barbara Jeremy represents us on the Dover Stapleton kindly volunteered to take Heritage Group attempting to make over. Thank you Bill for your many the best of our heritage potential. years of note taking, but you are willing to stay on the Executive and as Publicity Secretary. I have not mentioned the Our Newsletter expertly edited by sterling efforts of our Treasurer, but Alan Lee continues to be highly Mike Weston will shortly dazzle you regarded by members and others. We with his annual accounts. That are indebted to all the contributors, concludes my report of a very hectic Jean Marsh our advertising manager year for The Society except for and all our distributors for their efforts. thanking every member of the The excellent website, managed by Executive and all those members who Mike McFarnell, also keeps members have contributed in some way to the up to date and helps to interest work of The Society during the past internet browsers not only in the year. Society but in Dover as well. Its popularity has increased this year with I submit my report for your the extensive Dover History consideration and welcome any Scrapbook, making use of Kathleen questions. The Dover Society An extract from the Accounts for the Year Ended 31st March 2010 The following extract from our accounts represents the statement of financial activities and the balance sheet. The supporting notes to the accounts are not reproduced due to lack of space. However, the complete accounts are available for inspection upon request to our Treasurer, Capt. Mike Weston [telephone 01304 202059] or Email [[email protected]]. CURRENT ASSETS 2010 2009 Society Badges 23 27 Newsletter Binders 66 66 Debtors and Prepayment 25 0 Shares gifted to Society 661 661 Cash at bank and in Hand 27.689 26.476 28,464 27,230 CREDITORS: Amounts falling Due within one year (1,654) (1,918) NET CURRENT ASSETS 26.810 25.312 NET ASSETS £26.810 £25.312 FUNDS £26.810 £25.312 The Society's Funds are represented by: The General Fund 19,935 Rolls Memorial Fund 50 Projects Fund 832 Publication Fund 5,123 Tbwn Hall Fund 870 £26.810 Statement of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 31st March 2010 General Fund General Fund INCOME 2010 2009 Subscriptions 2,428 2,470 Donations 46 27 Social Events 621 648 Gift Aid attracted by Subs etc to General Fund 595 593 Bank Account Interest 49 964 TOTAL INCOME 3,739 4,702 EXPENDITURE Members and Meeting expenses 33 -62 Administrative Expenses 1,206 1,179 Newsletter Expenses 1,485 1,346 Other Items [including donations] 280 80 TOTAL EXPENDITURE 3,004 2,543 NET (OUTGOING)/INCOMING RESOURCES 735 2,158 Total Funds Brought Forward 19.199 17.041 TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD £19.934 £19.199 Capt. M.H. Weston Dover Harbour Board A talk by Mike Krayenbrink and Bob Goldfield ------report by Alan Lee ------

Michael G Krayenbrink is a Chartered Secretary who since commencing with DHB in 1977 has held a variety of posts. Appointed to the Board on 13th June 2005 Mike is Director of Port Development. Dr. Robert H. Goldfield joined DHB after a long career in the aviation industry. Appointed to the Board on 4th March 2002 Bob is Chief Executive and Register. ike opened with the updated plans The scheme developed through three Mfor the port, Terminal 2 (T2) and rounds of consultations spread over the Western Docks. This will be the three years will include the provision of second largest ferry terminal in the four new ferry berths. This will entail country, the existing T1 being the largest. the shortening of the Prince of Wales Pier; conversely the Admiralty Pier will The Harbours, Docks, Piers and Ferries, be lengthened. The Granville Dock will The Dover Harbour Revision Order be infilled and the marina re-sited to the 201 [X] was placed with the Secretary of eastern side of the Prince of Wales Pier. State for Transport and dated 23.12.2009. The roundabouts at either end of This work has to be completed within Snargate Street will be redesigned to ten years of the order being signed. The improve traffic flow. Full documentation need for T2 was given as the increase of for the scheme can be viewed, by mainly freight traffic through the port appointment, at Harbour House and a and the economics of geography, there is summary of about 60 pages is available no suitable area for expansion locally. from DHB or via their website. DHB will run out of capacity when the figure of 2.7 million trucks is reached. In Not part of T2 but closely linked to the 2008 2.31 million trucks passed through project and headed Work No. 13 is a £30 the port, in 2009 2.30 million. To do million marina. This will consist in part nothing is not an acceptable option as of a pier of solid construction 532 metres the freight would still come to Dover, the long and the relocation and shortest and quickest way to the reconstruction on the shore end of the continent. This would lead to more Clock Tower and Clock Ibwer Building. congestion and queues along with an Piled moorings with a pontoon system increase in air pollution. The volume of will be connected to the south face of port freight is linked to GDP and the size that pier by a series of link bridges. It is of the ships. On current projections T2 envisaged that this will provide the will be needed between 2016 and 2020. catalyst for the waterfront development, Work will have to start three years before improve road access and give a boost to capacity is reached. tourism in the area. Headed Work No. 16 is a channel for vessels navigating to and would be attractive to the from the Wellington Dock, having lock government, especially in today's gates and an opening bridge over the financial climate, as they would retain channel. all receipts from the sale. Bob Goldfield then took over and started DHB has proposed a trust fund for by telling the audience about his employees and another for the local previous career from RAF Luqa, now community. The aim of the funds would Malta International Airport, to just prior be to maximise Dover's strong growth to joining DHB. potential by providing the necessary investment. They would also enable the He went into more detail of who delivers port to deliver tangible benefits whilst the project and the background to the diversifying and increasing jobs locally. last government's guidelines for trust A split of 80% of the profit to the investor ports. They had instructed all trust ports and 20% to the rest would seem to consider if they are fit for purpose. acceptable. The only way finance could be raised was set out in a published document In answer to questions from the audience The Requirement of Modernising Trust Bob made the following points. The trust Ports' Edition 2. This meant undertaking local fund should just be for Dover and comprehensive analysis to cover all not the whole district or Kent. Safeguards eventualities from a complete sell-off to will be in place to stop the buyer selling part sale and partnership deals. on to an unacceptable third party. The Admiralty Pier is now a grade 2 listed The objective is to attract private structure. There would be a loss of investment to raise the capital, about angling on the Prince of Wales Pier. £450 million, for T1 and T2. DHB has at Disabled and junior anglers might be able present an annual turnover of about £60 to fish from the new pier. An order, million and a £10/12 million operating placed on the wreck sunk in the Western profit. The three main options facing the Entrance, states that all parts higher than board were: eight and one half metres below the low 1. Saving and borrowing - this would water mark are to be removed from the take too long and the last government wreck. The work to be carried out during refused permission to raise money on this summer. DHB holds a great many the open market. old documents and art works dating back 2. Sell 49% of the port - this would not hundreds of years. It is hoped that these attract investors and government can be preserved and kept locally. would keep proceeds of the sale. 3. Sell 51% of the port - more attractive Bob thanked the Society for their input investment as it would give the buyer in the consultation process and donated overall control. 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* * * by Jeremy Cope * * * ollowing last issue's report we have new build is two thirds of the cost of Freceived a response from Dover restoration and conversion. I came away District Council on the use of powers with the depressing thought that Dover will available to them to enforce repair orders end up destroying much of its character upon owners of neglected properties. The because of poor regulation and a lack of Council are trialling a scheme with three money. Other wealthier towns would not properties, regretfully none of which are think twice about making the best of such in Dover. If successful the intention is, we buildings. But well done London Road understand, to “roll out their use across Forum!! the district. This will of course include Looking at both issues Dover runs the risk Dover Town as this is the centre of our of being regenerated but end up losing regeneration aspirations.” Dover more much of the buildings that give it its than other areas is run down and needs its character and uniqueness. Do we want a buildings to look cared for and not Dover that is indistinguishable from any neglected. A cared for look will not only other town? I don't. I am not against good lift our spirits but do wonders for tourism. modern buildings; trouble is we do not A related matter: On behalf of the Society I seem to get very many built - certainly attended a meeting of the London Road not in towns like Dover. Community Forum. The principle matter We have now started on a survey of our discussed was the state of the properties listed buildings and conservation areas. owned by Dover Municipal Charities Our surveyors have been both impressed situated from Bridge Street towards by the underlying quality of much of the Beaconsfield Road on the right hand side. building and examples of care and pride The buildings are used for shops and are, in but depressed by the grotty. Our web site several instances, sadly neglected but is being redesigned so that it is data driven possessing facades that have some style which means that it will be much better and seem well worth improvement. The suited to record the survey results. We Forum have permission from the Charity should also be able to keep records to decorate empty premises and a grant updated with notes of improvements and from the Tbwn Council to provide for of neglect. There should also be a facility materials. The purpose of the Charities for both members and the public to make attendance was to tell us of their intentions their comments. The hope is that we shall and the limitations on any action they may all be able to be engaged and hence there take in connection with the buildings. We may be many more lobbyists. were told that the conservation area status restricted the use allowed and imposed It is early days but I feel an excellent start costs that rendered a conversion to has been made by some very committed charitable housing impractical. The cost of members of the Society. A Young Person's View of Dover by Denise Lee So what do you think about Dover? Well I think that Dover needs a lot more work put in to it. Dover is unclean and untidy. Dover is meant to be a historic and touristic town, so let's take pride in it. When tourists visit they want to see a nice, clean, tidy and interesting town not somewhere unpleasant, smelly and unclean. Dover needs to be a bit more colourful with no rubbish on the ground, so what do we need to stop this? I think that we should have more rubbish bins around the town, and hire people to plant more attractive colourful flowers around the town as well. The planters in the town should be full of bright coloured flowers around the trees. At present they look drab and untidy. All the lampposts should have hanging flower baskets and be watered every day. One person could be employed to do this and he or she could be helped by people who are out of work. More roundabouts could be sponsored by businesses to have flowers on and to be kept tidy. Some of the historic buildings and old shops need to be cleaned, tidied up and painted. The streets need to be cleaned every day and washed regularly. People should be encouraged to keep their gardens and house fronts neat and tidy and take pride in where they live. Those who have been sentenced to community service should be made to do the clearing up, tidying and watering. They could also do up the front gardens of old or disabled people who cannot do it for themselves. All dog owners should pick their dog waste up and not just leave it on the ground for people to step in it. I think that we need more dog waste bins in Dover not just the odd one or two. The ones we have now always seem full and overflowing: they need to be emptied more often. People should be helped to start new shops that sell what people want. There are too many charity shops. We need a proper hospital and a bowling alley in the town. I think that we should get more police on the streets on foot patrol. Why do so many top police need posh cars and drivers? Can't they drive themselves? With a little bit of effort we can all make Dover a nicer place to live in. 21

LEGAL LONDON - The Inns of Court 26th May 2010 Reported by Joan Liggett etween royalty at Westminster were taken over by London brewers Band commerce in the City, who began a major refurbishment, mediaeval lawyers found a quiet restoring this splendid building to its niche in which to practise their craft. former glory. The basement still They are still there in a part of contains the original vaults used to London that remains hidden to many store bullion and some of the Crown Londoners and most visitors. Under Jewels during the First World War. the guidance of our wonderful guide A gentle walk took us from busy Fleet we toured this area tracing the Street to Middle Tfemple - one of the history, traditions and peculiar four Inns of Court exclusively entitled practices of English Law. to call their members to the English Our first stop was for coffee in Fleet Bar as barristers; the others being the Street at The Old Bank of England' Inner Temple, Gray's Inn and Pub, formerly the Law Courts' branch Lincoln's Inn. Middle Temple has at of The Bank of England. The Bank its heart Middle Temple Hall where traded here for 87 years until 1975, the Inn's student barristers are still when the premises were sold to a required to dine for a minimum building society. In 1994 the premises

Old Bank of EnglandFleet Street Photo by J. Pople Dining hall, Middle Temple Photo by J. Pople number of nights for several terms. In recent years it has become a much- used film location - the cobbled streets, historic buildings and gas lighting giving it a unique atmosphere. The Hall itself is a magnificent Elizabethan building with a double hammer beam oak roof and heraldic shields around the walls recording names of the Readers. The High Table consists of three 29 feet planks of a single oak, reputedly a gift The high table Photo by J. Liggett from Elizabeth I to the Middle Ttemple, cut down in Windsor Forest when Francis Drake, just back from and floated down the Thames to be a successful expedition, was installed in the Hall before the rapturously congratulated by building was completed. The Benchers and members. The hatch Benchers of the Inn still dine at it as cover of his ship the Golden Hind was they did that evening in August 1586 later used to make the present Cup Board, which since medieval times has been the centre of ceremonies. This stands beneath the Bench Table and on it is laid the book which members sign when they are called to the Bar and by it the Readers stand when each Lent and autumn they give their lectures. Those early lawyers rented the land on which the Middle Temple stands from the Knights Templar whose round Norman church was our next stop.

Cuthbert John Ottaway, bom Dover 1850 and England's first football captain., was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of the Inner Ibmple on 17th November 1876. He was officially a barrister-at-law and took up Chambers at Lamb Building, Ibmple, London. For more information on C. J. Double hammer beam roof, dining hall, Middle Temple Photo by J. Pople Ottaway see book review. Editor To finish off the morning, we entered the Royal Courts of Justice housing both the Court of Appeal and the High Court. The main entrance in the Strand has two curved porches fitted with iron gates leading into a huge hall designed to reflect the majesty of the Law. Over the Judges' entrance there are carvings of a stone cat and dog representing fighting litigants. Here we saw Legal Royal Courts of Justice Photo by J. Pople London at work: Barristers in wig and gown conferring with their clients or with lawyers. After lunch many returned to the Courts of Justice to attend one or other of the many Court Rooms. Each Court has an interior unique to itself as they were each designed by different architects.

Then back to our coach for a brief tour which included the Old Bailey and Staple Inn before stopping at Lincoln's Inn which is situated on

Hall entrance and lane Photo by J. Liggett Chancery Lane. Led by our Guide we went along lanes and through buildings, sometimes on cobbles, to the Medieval Chapel which was built on pillars forming an undercroft. Standing there under the Chapel in a rather dark place it was easy to imagine we had gone back in time. This place was used for meetings (sometimes by dissidents) but was also a place of recreation. Lincoln's Inn consists of three Courtyards around which the chambers were built. Old Square, built in 1525 with its magnificent Fan vaulting in the undercroft, Lincoln's Inn Photo by J. Pople Gatehouse is the oldest existing part of the Inn. New Square was built in 1693 but altered in the 1800's when the open area in the middle was MEMBERSHIP replaced by gardens and lawns. Stone NEWS Buildings was built in 1775 and houses today the headquarters of the Inns of Summer 2010 Court and City Yeomanry, part of the Territorial Army. Thanks once again to all those members who have paid their Our Guide then led us round corners current subscriptions. and through lanes to Chancery Lane where we found an imposing Copies of our Newsletter have establishment, Ede and Ravenscroft, now been distributed to most Wigmakers. Wigs were formerly made local surgeries for their waiting from hum an hair with the consequent rooms. Perhaps this will problem of vermin - ladies purchased introduce the Dover Society to small silver mousetraps to put into a wider range of potential their wigs whilst gentlemen shaved members. their heads to enable discreet Elizabeth Dudley has given up scratching with the little finger under her Newsletter delivery to wigs. Humphrey Ravenscroft whose members at the Gateway flats, father was a tailor solved this problem currently numbering 17. We are with the patenting of horsehair wigs very grateful to Elizabeth for in 1834 and 285 years later Ede and contributing over 20 years of Ravenscroft are the world's largest reliable distribution and thank in makers of lawyer's wigs. anticipation her successor, Jean Sadly, it was now time to rejoin our Luckhurst. coach. Many, many thanks to Due to the sterling work of Georgette for organising such a Derek, our Chairman, we have a splendid day. record number of welcome new members Mr D & Mrs J Moynan, Mr H & Mrs M Hutchison, Mr D & Mrs N Sheasby, Mrs A Walker, Mr D Hall, Mr B & Mrs M Gardner, Mrs J Tkylor, Mr D & Mrs J Fagg, Mrs L Leach, Mr G Scrivener, Mrs V Jarvis. Membership is 435. Sheila R Cope

Middle Temple Photo by J. Liggett SOCIETY PROJECTS ------Report by Jeremy Cope ------COWGATE CEMETERY he cemetery looks well after the and to the support given by White Twinter - it's a lovely spot even Cliffs Countryside Partnership. allowing for my bias. If you are nearby it's well worth a visit. Dare I say it but I am delighted to report that member I feel we as up to date with our care of Deborah Gasking joined us last the area as we have ever been. month. If you would like to try volunteering don't hesitate to contact Thanks are due to all of those who me (phone 01304 211348) or you could have worked as volunteers over the just turn up to one of our work years of the Society's involvement sessions.

THE RIVER DOUR he White Cliffs Countryside ensure that any changes that may TPartnership working parties re­ come with the T2 development will commenced their work in April after allow for migrating fish. It is also the winter. The break allows for the working with District Council to spawning of fish. The Dour is such a upgrade the river from A20 towards lovely river but so in need of rubbish Castle Street. Dover Tbwn Council litter clearance. Anyone interested in hopes that the improvements at joining the working party should Charlton Green will be completed by contact the Partnership on 01304 this summer with seating and an 241806 information panel.

The Dour Steering Group met in April I e-mailed members with details of and learnt of the Environment the proposals to create a cycle path Agency's work including its that "shadows" the Dour. Any route restoration of the river in Temple can only run alongside the river for Ewell to a more natural state through short distances but has to use nearby creation of low water flow channels roads. The idea is a route from and planting of native species. Buckland to the sea with the first Further work is being planned for section from Buckland to Charlton Russell Gardens. The Agency is Green. We await the outcome with working with Dover Harbour Board to interest. I

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he Western Heights Preservation Sunday. WHPS are also grateful to the TSociety (WHPS) is pleased to Kent Community Foundation who announce the success of their annual helped fund the weekend with a grant Open Weekend on 5th and 6th June from the Grassroots fund. 2010 when over 1,800 paying visitors took the rare opportunity to explore Note: the tunnels and , and enjoy One of the most important and the views from the Drop on impressive in Britain Dover's Western Heights. and Europe, the Western Heights are a series of strong-points linked by Many more people enjoyed the free miles of ditches on the western hilltop opening of the Grand Shaft triple­ above Dover. They were originally spiral staircase, Napoleonic living begun during the American War of history re-enactments displays and Independence, were strengthened others stalls in the Grand Shaft during the Napoleonic Wars and Barracks area. updated and strengthened again in the mid-nineteenth century. The Monies raised from the event will be Western Heights are now also spent on future projects and events designated as a local nature reserve, on the Western Heights, including providing a haven for some of tools for work parties that take place Britain's rarest and most protected at the Drop Redoubt on the 3rd plants, butterflies, birds and reptiles. Sunday of every month Further details can be found on the Society's website: Disappointingly the event was www.doverwesternheights.org marred by the graffiti that was daubed on the Drop Redoubt, a Scheduled Ancient Monument on the Saturday night of the event.

The WHPS would like to thank English Heritage for allowing access to the Drop Redoubt, Dover District Council for the use of the Grand Shaft and Barracks site, and the Town Council who provided the bus service between the Heights and the Rolls Royce Anniversary event on the Dexters on Drop Redoubt field (Photo P. Sampson) 27

------by Denise Lee ------n April this year St Edmund's Catholic ISchool, Dover held a two-day musical workshop. This was for the benefit of I some of the pupils from years 8, 9 and 10 with the aim of coming up with a Dover Pride song about Dover. Words by students of St Edm und's RC School 2010 Bob Kenwood who has already Music by Bob Kenwood 2009-10 composed and recorded some of his own songs ran the workshop. During the first Dover Castle, always seen day we learnt about music, including We will walk, side by side how to arrange words that go together. Humpback hills of chalky green We have Dover Pride During the second day the students Chorus: were asked to compose the words for a Maison Dieu to harbour wall song to be called Dover Pride. We will walk side by side Meanwhile Bob was working on the Like the waves we're one for all tune. Finally after much hard work and We have Dover Pride many changes 'Dover Pride' was finished. We live on a dockland shore We will walk, side by side About a month later, on TUesday 18th Every day we hear ships roar May, all those who had taken part in the We have Dover Pride workshop met in St Edmund's recording Chorus: studio, one of the largest in the southeast. After about ten attempts the When the country was on edge group managed to record the song We will walk, side by side 'Dover Pride' to Bob's satisfaction. As the Winston Churchill was a lege session broke up everyone had a feeling We have Dover Pride of pride in their achievement. Chorus: The CD will be used to help people feel Charlton, River, Snargate Street proud of the town of Dover and St We will walk, side by side Edmund's School. It will be sent to other Buckland round to Jubilee schools to be played to let them know We have Dover Pride how interesting our town is. Chorus: M-R- JAMES and the LORD WARDEN HOTEL by Sherifa Rashidally

host stories, abbeys, churches and at Tfemple Grove preparatory school Gcastles - what more could conjure then at Eton from 1876 to 1882. When up a perfect description of M. R. at King's College he took a first and in James! MRJ, as he was known to his due course became Fellow, Dean, associates, was born Montague Tlitor and in 1905 a Provost. In 1895 Rhodes James in 1862 at Goodnestone he had been awarded a D.Litt. degree, near Wingham, Kent the son of a and had published his first catalogues, clergyman and destined to become manuscripts and, in magazine form, one of the great English writers of two ghost stories Canon Athene's ghost stories. A collection of such Scrapbook (spooky to say the least!) stories without one by MRJ would and Lost Hearts. simply not do! He was the In 1904 Ghost Stories of an Antiquary a quintessential writer of stories that collection of eight stories, which revolved around old manor houses, included his first two, appeared. Many deserted seashores and the crumbled more of his works followed, not only ruins of old abbeys and churches. ghost stories but also on abbeys, However, MRJ was also a revered churches and castles. There was The authority on abbeys, churches and Five Jars a fantasy for children (1922), castles, having written many books on a book on his recollections of Eton lovely old and historic buildings. One and King's (1926), one on Suffolk and such book entitled Abbeys, written in Norfolk (1930), and a translation of 1925 and published by the Great forty Hans Christian Andersen stories Western Railway of Paddington, (1930), for MRJ was proficient in the London, was quite superb, showing all Danish language. In that same year, the abbeys and cathedrals on the 1930, he received the Order of Merit, route from Paddington to the West for earlier in 1918 he had accepted the Country and Wales. A map showing Provostship of Eton, the place so close these and castles on this route is to his heart. included in a pocket at the back of the MRJ frequently visited the continent book. Recently I was most fortunate including visits to St.Wulfram's enough to acquire a copy Church at Abbeville in France which Though MRJ was a son of Kent he is mentioned in his famous ghost moved with his parents, his two story Casting the Runes. Incidentally in brothers and a sister, to Suffolk while 1957 this was made into a film still in his childhood. He was educated entitled Curse of the Demon (Night of the Demon in the UK). It was on these dreadful objects they really could be visits to the continent that MRJ stayed and it is this which makes MRJ such a at the Lord Warden hotel, which, as master of the classic ghost story. those familiar with Dover know, has Moreover, it is we from Dover who accommodated many of the famous can add yet one more of the famous to on their way to and from England and our list of those who stayed at the the continent. Lord Warden. MRJ died in 1936 but his stories live Though he spent his childhood in on. They are unique in that Suffolk and travelled far and wide sometimes only a bleary or vaguely might we not think that when MRJ described figure or image conjures up stayed at this Dover hotel and looked more fear than if it had been across towards the lighthouse, with its described with more clarity of form. shadows on a foggy night, this must Surely things half-hidden and shapes have conjured up a perfect theme for not clear make the mind wonder what the ghosts of antiquity! Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th September 2010

nce again The Dover Society is town's regalia will also be on show. coordinating arrangements in O 2 St. Edmund's Chapel: Dover for Heritage Open Days, this tiny cemetery chapel in Priory Road organised by English Heritage nationally was consecrated by St Richard of every year. This event celebrates Chichester in 1253 in memory of his England's fantastic architectural heritage friend, St. Edmund, Archbishop of by encouraging free access to buildings Canterbury 1234-45, and was probably that are usually closed to the public or used as a cemetery chapel for the would normally charge an admission Maison Dieu close by. Hidden for many fee. Dover has a great wealth of historic years by development around it and buildings, but only some are normally used as a workshop, it was revealed open to the public such as Dover Castle again following war damage to the and the Roman Painted House. This year surrounding buildings. The chapel was seven buildings will be open to the restored and reconsecrated in 1968. public free of charge. 3 Dover College: 1 Maison Dieu House: the remains of St. Martin's Priory: built this fine Jacobean house in Biggin Street in the 12th century, it was suppressed in is the oldest domestic building in Dover. 1540 as part of Henry VIII's Dissolution It was built in 1665 as the Agent of the Monasteries. The site was then Victualler's residence close to the leased for farming and most of the Maison Dieu, which Henry VIII had buildings fell into disrepair. Fortunately, requisitioned as a store for the Navy the grand Norman refectory was used as Victualling Office following the a barn and survives today. Dover College Dissolution. In 1834 it became the opened on the site in 1871 when the residence of the commander of the Royal refectory and gatehouse were restored Engineers in Dover before becoming a and the king's hall became the college private residence. The Kingsford chapel. Part of the cloister also survives. brewing and milling family and the The entrance is from Effingham Mummery family who owned the Crescent. Stembrook tannery lived here during the 19th century. Bought by the Corporation 4 Church of St. Mary the Virgin: in 1899, the house became council this prominent building in Biggin Street, offices until after the Second World War dating from Saxon times, was built when it became the public library. originally by the secular canons of St. Following the move of the library to the Martin Le Grand, but was rebuilt by the Discovery Centre, the premises were Normans. At the Dissolution it was saved purchased and beautifully restored by from demolition when Henry VIII Dover Tbwn Council for its use. The granted it for use as a parish and civic church. Unfortunately, because of its entrance is in Snargate Street. weak foundations, it was rebuilt in 1843, 7 St. Radigund's Abbey: although its original arches and columns this Premonstratensian abbey founded were reinstated. The magnificent tower in 1191 was visited by several monarchs. survived this restoration. Following its Dissolution in 1538, the 4a Bell Tbwer of St. Mary the Virgin: great abbey church was demolished and in the gallery of this Norman tower the remaining buildings with its lands visitors will see how the bell-ringers were leased to tenant farmers by the operate and in the clock chamber they monarch. Today the refectory is the will see the clock workings and various farmhouse surrounded by abbey ruins. A artefacts. gatehouse and a guesthouse survive. 5 Unitarian Church: Opening times will be: this brick-built octagonal church sitting 1 Maison Dieu House - above York Street was constructed in Saturday only 10am to 4pm 1820 and its worship area reflects the 2 St. Edmund's Chapel - shape of the building. The origins of the Saturday 10am to 4pm church go back to 1643 to a local 3 Dover College (Guided tours only) - community of Baptists who established a Saturday 11am and 2pm meeting house in 1655, but were 4 St. Mary the Virgin Church - persecuted following the restoration of Saturday 10am to 4pm the monarchy in 1660. In 1692 Samuel 4a Bell Tower of St. Mary the Virgin - Taverner made part of his house Saturday 10am to 4pm and available for worship and part of the Sunday 12.15 to 4pm garden as a burial ground. Freedom of 5 Unitarian Church - belief and form of worship as a Unitarian Saturday 11am to 4pm Church was agreed by members in 1916. 6 Grand Shaft Staircase - Following Second World War damage, the Saturday and Sunday 10am to 4pm chapel reopened in 1952. There will be 7 St. Radigund's Abbey (Guided tours) - an art exhibition, music played on the Saturday 10.30 to noon and 2.30 to 4pm 1855 Holdich pipe organ and Publicity leaflets refreshments. These are available from the Tburist 6 Grand Shaft Staircase: Information Office behind the Town this unique triple staircase was started in Hall, Dover Town Council Offices 1804 and finished in 1807. It connected (Maison Dieu House), Dover Museum the barracks and fortifications on the and Dover Library. Western Heights through the 250 foot Ib find out about other buildings open in high cliff to sea level, Snargate Street and the region call 020 7539 7921 or visit the Pier District, enabling troops to move www.heritageopendays.org quickly up or down its 140 steps within the cliff plus another 59 into the barrack Local contact for more information: yard. In 1812 a Mr Leith of Walmer rode Derek Leach on 01304 823926 or email a horse up the staircase for a bet. The derekriverdale@btinternet. com 32

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the voice of experience: www.tersons.com: BOOK REVIEW England's First Soccer Captain Review by Derek Leach ho can name the first captain of an Despite not having played soccer until he WEngland soccer team? If you can, do went to Oxford, he was soon in the team. you know where he was born? The name The University team, including Cuthbert, is Cuthbert Ottaway who was born in entered the FA cup for the first time in Dover in 1850. The story of his short life 1872/73 only losing in the final! He was is told in a book called England's First selected for the England team to play Football Captain by Michael Southwick. Scotland in November 1872 and was made captain. In 1874 he played again for Cuthbert was born at 5 Hammond Place England. on 19 July 1850. His father, James, was a surgeon, a Justice of the Peace and Mayor After university and whilst studying to be of Dover 1859/60. By 1861 the family was a barrister Cuthbert played cricket for living at 7 Camden Crescent. Cuthbert Middlesex and football for the Old went to Eton in 1863 as a King's Scholar - Etonians, reaching the FA Cup Final a scholarship which meant that the family twice. Damage to his ankles, however, paid only 75% of the fees. Cuthbert was ended his football career, but not cricket - soon involved in many of the sporting he played for Middlesex until 1876. After activities at the college including the Wall corresponding for five years with a Game. He excelled at cricket, playing for Canadian girl, he married her in August the Eton First XI against the MCC. In his 1877, but their happiness was short-lived. last year at Eton he scored nine centuries After only a few months Cuthbert died, and also at the age of 19 played for Kent, probably of pneumonia, at the age of 27. being bowled out twice by W. G. Grace. His wife, Marion, was pregnant with their Cuthbert played for Eton against Harrow first child. at rugby and the Wall Game. So ended the short, sporting life of the He went on to Oxford in 1869 where, in first ever captain of an England soccer addition to reading Classics, he team who was born in Dover. represented the university at five Copies of the book price £8 are available different sports: cricket (as captain), by post from Tbny Brown at 4 Adrian rackets, real tennis, athletics and soccer. Close, Beeston, Nottingham NG9 6FL (or Opening the batting with W. G. Grace, he see www.soccerdata.com). Please make toured the USA in an England XI and your cheque or postal order payable to played in the annual Gentlemen versus Tony Brown and include postage and Players match. packing of £1.50. 34 A DOVER MAYOR who Broke Centuries of Tradition The first female Mayor of Dover, Councillor Mrs Dorothy Bushell by Fr Peter Sherred

n a ceremony held at Maison Dieu Buckland Hospital for the dual function IHouse attended by the Mayors, Tbwn of grazing the hillside and, thereby, Clerks and other Officers of the encouraging the return and growth of Confederation of the Cinque Ports on flora and the attendant fauna. At least the 21st May 2009 Dover's newly two foals have been born from the elected first citizen, Cllr Sue Jones, The breed on the hillside and one was Right Worshipful the Tbwn Mayor of named Dorothy by Councillor Dover became the Speaker of the Smallwood after, and in honour of, the Cinque Ports for 2009/2010. The first female Mayor of Dover, Councillor Speakership passed from the Town Mrs Dorothy Bushell. Mayor of Hythe and during the year Dover's Mayor will chair meetings of the Cinque Ports and on 3rd October 2009 the annual Speaker's Day will be held in the town. An event that comes round every seven years is a ceremony not to be missed. However, Councillor Jones is not the first female Mayor to hold such a prestigious and historic post and we have to go back to 1960 to find the first female Mayor of our town to hold such post. So who was this [Interestingly it was subsequently person? ascertained that the filly was a colt and may now be called Solomon but the first Tb answer that question we can reflect filly to come along may still be called on another event that took place in Dorothy! It could only happen in Dover!] Dover in 2009 under the previous Mayor, Councillor Diane Smallwood, Dorothy Bushell was born in Dover in the Speaker of the Cinque Ports in 2002 1908 at 45 Wyndham Road, the and Mayor of Dover three times. Konik daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry Peal. horses, which originated from a Polish She was one of eleven children and was breed, have been introduced into the to become the longest-lived, eventually town on the chalk grassland behind dying in 2004 from a heart attack while resident in Alandale residential home Hall, St Martin's Hill, Folkestone Road, in Whitfield at the good age of 95. She Dover on 17th April 1935. On the attended school locally but it appears marriage certificate he was described she did not stay at school, being as French Polisher (Railways) and she required to look after her siblings and as a Nurse, Mental Hospital, resident at also become engaged in service. In St Augustine's Chartham. They were 1920, Dorothy was just 12 years of age, destined not to have any children and when her father died after an she was to be a widow for nearly as long appendectomy operation. Her mother as her married life with her husband. died, aged 75, from a brain tumour when Dorothy was 43, by which time Dorothy entered the nursing profession she was married to Edmund Bushell in 1930 when she became a Registered MBE. Born in Peter Street, Dover in Mental Nurse undertaking additional 1903 he was a great grandson of the training in the Royal Victoria Hospital, parish clerk of Dover and was made a Folkestone. She served time as a theatre freeman of the town by birthright on nurse during the Second World War 3rd July 1931. Apprenticed with having volunteered in 1938 and being Flashman and Co. he became a French called up in 1939. On duty when the polisher for Southern Railway working first injured soldiers arrived from on the wooden fittings of the ferries Dunkirk, she ministered in a ward for and Lord Warden Hotel. He was to Dutch, French and Belgian soldiers. She become a Charge hand Painter for eventually went off duty at 2.30am and British Railways. From 1935, returned at 8am and repeated this representing the Labour Party, he commitment for the subsequent days became a Dover Borough Councillor of the Dunkirk emergency working and an Alderman in 1945. He was alongside, among others, the surgeon awarded the MBE for Dr Gertrude Toland. It his work as chairman of is said she once had to the local employment saw off a finger from committee from 1945. an amputated arm to Elected Mayor in 1964 enable a soldier's he died, while in office, wedding ring to be at home in 1 Churchill returned to him. She Road on 27th January became a State Enrolled 1965. He and Dorothy Nurse in 1963. had been married three During the latter part of months short of thirty the war years she was years. co-opted onto the Edmund Alfred Bushell Borough Council as a and Dorothy Peal were councillor for St married in the Wesley Bartholomew's Ward and was subsequently elected in 1947. Mayor. Conscious of breaking the all Her specific interests were the post male tradition in her Mayoral speech war reconstruction of Dover and she said "Dover is a progressive town health issues for the poor and moving with the times” adding "The underprivileged. She was Chairman of town of Dover has made history today Dover's Maternity and Child Welfare but it is making history all the time in Committee and a keen supporter of the the sort of town it has become even introduction of orange juice and dried since the war and in the services it milk for children and expectant provides for its people''. She expressed mothers. She broke the mould of a concerns over redundancies in the male-only preserve when, on 23rd May mines and on the railways adding, "The 1960, she was elected the first woman redevelopment of Dover has at last Mayor of Dover in over 900 years, speeded up...!" [Judging by its state enabling many other women to follow today the pace of development prior to her example. Her Mayoral year her Mayoral year must have been very coincided with the Speakership of the very slow!] Cinque Ports vesting in Dover and it is believed she was only the second As Chairman of the Housing woman Speaker. She was the 302nd Committee she recognised that housing Mayor of our town and only the third was a problem and expressed concern Labour or Socialist Mayor. In 1957 she over high interest rates. About 25% to had been elected as the second female 30% of all rented property in the town Alderman and by the time she was was organised by Dover Borough Council who indicated they were looking for properties for conversion and rebuilding on blitzed sites. She added, "Of all the improvements we would like to see in the town a swimming bath is most often mentioned. In giving this our full support we are well aware that it is all of us, as ratepayers, who must "will the means" for it to be a lasting project. However, the benefit of many things elected Mayor she had served two years cannot be measured in terms of as Deputy Mayor. She was also to money. The decisions will have to be represent Dover North on Kent County made with courage and, I believe, Council for three years and was deeply during this civic year". committed to the life and community of Dover. What year it turned out to be! It was so successful that at the annual meeting She followed Alderman Eckhoff as on 23rd May 1961 it was unanimously ordered that the Council place on Yugoslavia and the goodwill visit in record its appreciation of the return. The civic tribute ended "in outstanding services “rendered by recording its unqualified gratitude for Alderman Mrs Dorothy Bushell in the services splendidly performed the office of Mayor to which she was Council extends to the Ex-Mayor and to elected on 23rd May I960" and that the Alderman E. A. Bushell its best wishes record of appreciation be "illuminated for long life, good health and continued on vellum in book form for the ex- happiness together". Sadly, within a May or's acceptance". period of just over three years Mrs Bushell was to find herself a widow. The tribute recorded highlights of her year beginning thus: "Alderman Mrs In the context of those plaudits how did Bushell has enjoyed the unique the ex-Mayor approach her year in distinction of being the first woman to office? occupy the office of Mayor in all the long , added to which, In her "Random recollections of my during the greater part of her year of "year" May 23rd 1960 to May 23rd 1961" office, Alderman Mrs Bushell has held she wrote - "The Day 5.30pm on a the no less exalted office of Speaker of warm evening. Edmund and I walking the Confederation of the Cinque Ports. down to the bus stop at Elms Yale Alderman Mrs Bushell has discharged corner to take the bus to the Ibwn Hall her many duties with consummate much the same as we have done for the ability and infinite grace and charm last 15 years together, only this time I thereby fulfilling the high expectations was wearing a new green and white not only of her colleagues on the tricel two piece and a special hair do for Council but also of her multitude of the occasion. Arriving at the Tbwn Hall friends in Dover and beyond." Events we robed and at 6pm promptly we filed recorded included: Opening of King into the Connaught Hall to take our Charles II Walk, on 25th May 1960, by places, facing the general public seats, the Lord Cornwallis to mark the with all the chairs and desks arranged tercentenary of the arrival at Dover of as in the Council Chamber, the Mayor's King Charles II on the occasion of the chair in the centre on a plinth, and Restoration in 1660. The consecration, behind us the platform massed with the on 27th May 1960, by His Grace the most beautiful array of flowers I have Lord Archbishop of Canterbury of the ever seen; the perfume almost Church of St Nicholas on the Buckland overwhelming and the colours blending Estate. The presentation of new colours beautifully. The first item being "To to the 5th Battalion The Buffs by the elect a Mayor for the ensuing year". I Colonel in Chief, King Frederick IX of sat there quite detached while my Denmark and a visit to Dover by HRH nomination was proposed by Alderman The Duke of Gloucester. The visit of the Mrs Coatsworth and Alderman President of the District of Split, Snelgrove in somewhat glowing terms. I found myself moving off behind the the pace so soon after a major op? Only Mayor to the robing room, dressed by time could answer all these doubts the Town Sergeant in all the Mayoral which beset me, once it was a fait regalia, the cravat feeling the most accompli; but I am determined to do strange, the new hat slightly my best and I pray constantly for uncomfortable, mostly on account of it wisdom to know what is right and the not being paid for yet (cost £8/18/6d) courage to carry it out" and then re-entering the hall to meet a By New Year's Eve she was writing "Of sudden blaze of light. I paused, this all the things I hope to achieve this year moment of history was being filmed in one is to leave the office of Mayor with colour, then proceeded to the Mayoral the dignity I hoped to acquire when Chair and took my seat. accepting it and to have made it Rising to take the oath and signing the possible for other women to be so long scroll of parchment in a hushed honoured." On New Year's Day her silence, was for me a most solemn and entry reads "New Year's Day and a moving moment, then calling upon the lovely sunny one, we robed at the Tbwn Rev'd S. Roberts for the prayers, giving Hall and proceeded on foot to St Mary's my speech, standing there in a blaze of Church where the Rev Hewlett light to about 500 people, apart from Johnson (the Red Dean) was the guest the Council, was an ordeal, which, preacher. I read the second lesson...We however, was not obvious since attended St Andrew's Church for someone said to me afterwards "as if lessons and carols in the evening. I love you had been doing it all your life"! the this service but the church was so burst of applause at the end of it, and gloomy and cold I was glad to get then looking down the agenda and home." quite suddenly feeling everything was Her log of events following is a going smoothly, and it was alright... the fascinating personal insight into the business proceeded without error and workload of the Mayor and her finally we went out to disrobe and on reactions to events. For instance on 5th such a warm evening I was indeed glad January she wrote, "Reception for 56 to shed the fur trimmed cloak and the guests before the Panto of Dick hat... Edmund was pleased and proud. Whittington, quite good, but I loathe The weight of the chain felt for the first those front seats! One might as well be time through the thin silk was an ever­ on the stage." present reminder of my responsibility. Could I, ordinary Mrs Bushell, the very On the 24th February she was in Court first woman Mayor of Dover in almost "11am Court, where a smuggling case 900 years of recorded history, measure enlivened the proceedings, 4,223 up to the standard set by my watches and 5 pieces of jewellery were predecessors? What amount of support involved value £41,000! Depositions would I get? Would I be able to stand took until 5.30pm, almost a "cloak and dagger" epic was unfolded, involving a comments in it one is left with the 500 mile journey through the night, an impression of a determined lady who interlude in Paris and capture at Dover was unafraid to speak her mind even to with the loot, which had been the extent of rebuking her own ingeniously concealed in the heating husband and another councillor in system of the car. I think the woman committee. Such directness may not will get off, I believe she is just a tool in have endeared her to some of her the game. The courtroom looked like Council colleagues and others! Aladdin's cave with all the samples Then, on 17th April, she records "My about. We sent them to Kent Assizes". 26th Wedding Anniversary and [She recorded later in March "Mr Edmund shamed me by remembering Leppard told me the woman in the it and I didn't!" On 23rd April she smuggling case has been discharged officiated at the Zeebrugge Day service not guilty"] attended by Lady Keyes, her son Lord In April on Easter Sunday she records Keyes and her grandson the Hon "Church, it was so packed that I could Charles" She rang the eight bells on the hardly find a seat my usual one being Zeebrugge bell. taken... I did not know whether we Her record is a testament to the were supposed to put extra in our commitment and industry she gave to envelopes and anyway I had last week's the Mayoral Year and contains all as well so I didn't though I have always manner of interesting thoughts and made Easter one of the special ones" memories. April 30th was when she set At an event on 8th April the host "said off with her husband and the Tbwn he did not quite know how to address Clerk to visit Split, leaving Dover on the the Mayor's husband since she was "Mr 'King Albert' to sail to Ostend and then Mayor" and to our surprise Edmund take a train on a very long and not too said in a stage whisper "call me Madam" easy journey to Zagreb arriving at which came out so unexpectedly we all midnight a day later. Her journal ends laughed" on 4th May some three weeks or so before relinquishing the Mayoralty on On Wednesday 12th April she recorded 23rd May 1961. Her year had been an "1st spaceman went into orbit. Radio outstanding success and her journal announced that a Russian Yuri Gagarin reminds us of the personality behind had returned safely" the official fagade. She was a Christian lady who approached the office of She records calls for her to fight in the Mayor with apprehension but acquitted elections for Ibwn and Pier Ward which herself with distinction. she rejected and made comment about an anonymous letter and articles in the She continued to live in Churchill Road press that had poisoned the atmosphere for a while after her husband died then for her. From her journal and moved to Park Street, then Snelgrove House before a residential home in Samphire Hoe Herne Bay. This was not the end of her I marvel that the mind man travels for she then went to Abbeyfield Dared to emulate the Creator in Walmer before asserting her Devising a landscape in the sea independence and moving to a flat in St The cliffs arising from its base Margaret's at Cliffe but ending her days Protected now from the sea's embrace in Alandale in Whitfield where she died. How strange that we now can walk She did, however, during the Mayoral Where no foot trod before year of Diane Smallwood, come down On the Channel Tunnel's elemental chalk into town and watch the switching on of Dorothy Bushell, a Mayor to remember the Christmas lights in the Market and in whom the town should have Square by sitting with the Mayor in considerable pride, led the way for Dickens Corner and following events subsequent female Mayors. from behind the window of that cafe. This completes a trilogy, being the contribution She was a very clever lady, developing of three female Dover Mayors to the history of much of her learning late in life, was Dover, submitted by Fr Peter Sherred. also an active member of the Methodist chapel and a fluent French speaker. While she learned how to swim in her 60s she never drove a car. She shone at poetry, obtaining a merit award in America in 1999 for one of her poems froml980, “Lexically Speaking", and having published a recollection from the 'England of yesteryear' entitled "The Real Father Christmas". As she approached the end of her life she was still providing samples of poetry:-

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