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Got an email about the School of Art

From Eamon Everall no less:Hi, you ask for info on Folkestone School of Art , I went there from 1966 to 1967. When i went it was where the multi story car park opposite the junction of Alexandra Gardens & Middleburg Square, now is. More or less oppo...

RE: Poor Jimmy Godden

I am so pleased that someone is concerned about Mr Godden's spate of bad luck, I am sure that Jimmy will appreciate this community spirit - after all Mr Godden has always had the towns' best interests at heart. It is good to know that there is one de...

Two completely different properties this week

Saw two houses yesterday in Canterbury, wildly different, and they highlight the fact that we want somewhere exactly in between, which is something that does not exist, at least within our budget...First house was in Vernon Place, and though we're id...
Rated 5.78/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Gah

Just investigating my amazon referral fees, seeing why I've not earned anything in about a year... this month my referral earnings are MINUS four pounds twenty-seven. Seems someone bought this camera last month, KERCHING, that's about a tenner commis...

Lovely opium, get it while it's hot

Opium is making a comeback, according to The Times, and entering the country via Folkestone. What other Victorianisms are due a comeback? I vote for children working heavy machinery.Lawks, would you look at the size of the ad on that page!...

History in my day

Another bright and breezy morning, just cool enough to stop me walking down town in just a t-shirt, but warm enough not to stop me walking down town at all. I headed the usual route past the courts and the DSS (all the nice scenic points), to what I�...

Videos of Folketone: More underground creepiness

More creepy underground tunnelling in silence, this time footage of the Victorian reservoir at Crete Road.More pictures and things at www.undergroundkent.co.uk....

Videos of Folkestone: SECRET TUNNELS!

Just been trawling www.youtube.com to see if there's any new Folkestone footage that isn't local kids beating each other up, and there is! Here's some spooky silent footage of the Victorian Channel Tunnel:This is presumably the one that was abandoned...

On my own today

Work's been a bit hectic, my IT colleague is out sick, so I'm fielding all enquiries (though generally just batting them back with "dunno, turn it off and on again"). Also Clare is working from home today, so I had to commute in on my own, I think th...

Always nice to get a mention in the Times

Times Literary Supplement this time no less, a review of DJ Taylor's Victorian Mystery, Kept, set at least partly in Folkestone. Not such a great review as it goes....

2 points about that

1. Related point - Bricks eh? are you sure it's not the vault of a victorian sewer? That would explain the pong, possibly coming through a crack in the brickwerk2. Less related point - I just had a samosa that tasted a bit of vinegar - it was not unp...

Underground London

I am fascinated by holes in the road, not sure why, it's something about being able to see beneath the respectable veneer of the city. There's some work going on on Cannon Street right now, drains I think. Only about 2 feet below the tarmac of the ro...

"When the rest of the track is finished in 2007 it will be possible to commute from St Pancras to Folkestone in 35 minutes"

That sounds a bit quicker than I'd heard before, but so says propertyinvesting.net... it also adds:Folkestone is a nice town generally � no really bad areas. Down by the harbour it�s got "further to go" than other parts of the town. Much of Folkeston...

Relocation, Relocation

Good to see Folkestone not only feature on Channel 4's Relocation, Relocation last night, but also being the outright winner! What a great house. Shame they didn't have time to give as much blurb about Folkestone as they did about Deal and Ramsgate. ...

Cheers for the link

Yeah those pics are just out the back window, but not at the time when the brown magpies were there. Just out the back window generally, a view I will miss. There's a Victorian cemetery out there, no longer used, and it's a bit of a wildlife haven. I...

Decorated!

Good work decorating elves, the front room is looking very nice now! Still got a gap to fill with skirting board, if we can match up this massive Victorian pattern. Hope ew can find a salvage yard somewhere...Great weekend too, went to Savour Aroma i...
Rated 8.59/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Good to see there's some civilisation in Folkestone

Here I was thinking that everyone between the ages of 16 and 60 had left town in a hurry... I moved down here last December (in fact, today is my year's anniversary), trading a tiny 2-up-2-down in Streatham for a monster Victorian place close to Folk...

RE: I say it stands

Well thanking you Mr popex!Charity thing after all. Could have said that I saw her outside the bank on said street earlier in day, but was rather bland. Besides she's becoming a regular on this street now, this was a tad more interesting. Umm more ...

Helena Bonham Carter

Last night dressed in a victorian style tartan dress turning on the Marylebone High Street xmas lights with Vanessa Feltz and Danny Baker.
Gfour were due to perform, but had to leave in haste :-(

What I done on my holidays

Well, that was the holiday then. A fantastic 168 hour long boozy lunch, we didn't do much more than get up for a big breakfast, sit snacking and drinking by the pool while waiting for our big boozy lunch, then eat and drink until it was time for a bi...

Hersonnisos

Still in Hersonnisos, took a trip to Knossos expecting a 4000 year old ruined palace, but instead found a Victorian changing rooms effort instead - a chap called Sir Arthur Evans concreted over the lot in about 1860. Still his story and his work is v...

Power Words for Better Living

DAMN, forgot to take home the new David Devant and his Spirit Wife album "Power Words for Better Living" at the weekend, so I've missed out on some valuable pre-gig listening time... but this morning I've given it a good going over, and am mightily i...

Is it me, or...

Is popEx making some kind of TWISTED SENSE for once? The new "Most Expensive Artist" chart, in the stats section is slightly less rubbish than the rest of the site. While everyone is going "Kiss Krazy", this new chart is an oasis (sorry) of calm, dig...

They Are Kloot...

Valued punter Liz O'Neill has sent in a load of info on I Am Kloot, no doubt hoping to boost their chances of dividends, and it turns out they're playing at a gig I am going to - that's near enough to "news" for me... 9th of December they play at the...