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Thanks for that, think it's the Metronome you mean

Have you seen it recently? It's derelict, but been bought by the NHS I think.Still got no idea of the date of that Manics gig, but at least this sounds like a confirmation that it really did happen!...

Rated 0.57/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Westmount burns

BBC has details of this derelict building on Folkestone Road burning. No news yet as to whether it was arson or not, but it's the second major fire in Dover his week, after St Martin's church also burned....

Godden will sell the land quite happily though

So no need for that, he wants full market rate for it though, and now it has planning permission that's a lot more than when it did not. Who would set the price for the compulsory purchase?I see there is another compulsory purchase (or maybe even a c...

What am I, a scone?

Spent most of yesterday doing doctory things, had to head down to the surgery and register, see a nurse, fill forms, fill something else, etc. Then much hanging around until I could get to see a doctor. Too much of this was in the waiting room. Parts...

I Am The Law!

I know I'm not the first to pick up on this, but I read last night's Evening Standard this morning (no, not The Metro, really last night's Standard, I found it on the train) and there was a piece about new powers for the police. It's being proposed (...

A good word about Folkestone!

Simon Schama has a good word about Folkestone in The Guardian! Well kind of:Howard was bouncily affable as he trotted Folkestone high street, a place inexplicably bereft of the roaming hordes of ruffians and mendicant asylum seekers he says infest Ne...

Whopper of a weekend

Well that was a mighty BEAST of a weekend, took a couple of extra days to go round Kent checking out wedding venues, so I have a nice short working week now. We have finalised a venue and it is the previously mentioned Lympne Castle. It's not cheap, ...

but of course it's on Casino Avenue ;-)

One of the derelict blocks of flats featured there is about 30 seconds from my front door.

Derelict London pubs

Just what it says, London, that is derelict... I found this page of derelict pubs when searching for the Finsbury Park Powerhaus, the abandonded venue near Finsbury Park tube. Noticed going past it yesterday on the bus that some windows upstairs were...