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    Posted by: albertdog 09/02/2012 at 09:17
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    I just thought it might be interesting to see if anyone on this site grew up, or now works, in the Canterbury area.

     For instance, who remembers Ignatius Dempsey, a barman in the Shakespeare pub, where all the teenagers used to go, as he would serve anyone who was not wearing a nappy.

    Who remembers the Foundary, after going to Gales Cafe to score a cup of tea and a 'quid deal', from Yiddy?

    Who remembers going to see MR Moses and the Schoolband at St Augustine's Hall?
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    Posted by: albertdog 13/02/2012 at 03:54
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    What!  Nobody at all from East Kent?
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    Posted by: Bauble 13/02/2012 at 08:57
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     There are probably loads, albert, but let's face it..who the hell is going to admit it? 

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    Posted by: consonant 13/02/2012 at 10:44
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    I will! But I wasn't that close to Canterbury so don't remember those places. I remember entering the Kent Festival every year and I spent a summer in the props and costume dept at the Marlowe. As a small child I remember running down the Mound and as a teenager smoking and drinking coffee in a pavement cafe outside the cathedral with a load of French tourists.... I like Kent!
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    Posted by: dereck_underwood79 13/02/2012 at 11:01
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    Grew up in East Kent, near Canterbury. I am still here!! Its a lovely part of the world which I love dearly. I remeber watching Star Wars at the Odeon cinema on the site of the current Marlowe. I remember going to the old wooden Marlowe theatre on the site of the current Marlowe shopping arcade. I remember the excitement the arrival of a Macdonalds caused. A day out at the St Lawrence cricket ground is the perfect way to spend a summers day. When I was a kid we would catch the train to Canterbury East and then walk to the hospital and crawl through the hedge near the maternity unit to get in for nothing. There are some beautiful beaches in Thanet (Botany Bay being the best) Canterbury Catherdral takes my breath away every time I go inside (it was free when I was a lad) Sandwich is a charming little place to live. Dover Castle is the best in England. Walmer Castle gardens are a great place to have a picnic with the kids and play cricket. France isn't far, the Cote D'opal is much underrated. The cliff walk from Dover to St Margarets bay is stunning. The cliff walk the other way to Folkestone isnt bad either. The Crab and Winkle cycle path between Canterbury and Whitstable is great. The Kent Downs are an area of outstanding natural beauty and rightly so.
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    Posted by: dereck_underwood79 13/02/2012 at 11:03
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    It had paragraphs, honest.
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    Posted by: daydreamer86 13/02/2012 at 11:11
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    I went to university in Canterbury but grew up in Surrey. The main thing I remember from my time there was all the students complaining as the Odeon cinema had refused to screen Brokeback Mountain as they felt it was inappropriate.
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    Posted by: albertdog 14/02/2012 at 04:55
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    This is more like it.  I will lay my cards on the table, then.  I was born in Herne Bay and spent my first ten years there, going to Hampton Primary School.  We then moved to Canterbury, living near Mandeville Road, while I went to the Simon Langton Boys' School.  I went to King's College, London, for my undergraduate degree, but did my post-graduate degree at Kent University, followed by a PGCE at Christ Church College.

    Since Kent had, and still has, selective education, as well as a relatively ageing population, finding a teaching job in East Kent was difficult, even in 1973, so I went to work for ILEA.
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    Posted by: albertdog 14/02/2012 at 05:00
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    The old Marlowe Theatre was decepit, even in the Sixties.  I think that it had a repetory company that put on the O level Eng. Lit. play each year.  The automatic flushing cistern in the gents' lavatory puncuated the performance with the regular, high-pitched sound of water cascading.
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    Posted by: albertdog 14/02/2012 at 05:08
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    By the way, does anyone remember that Burger take-away that opened in, I think, late 1972, down near the Westgate Towers?

    Does anyone remember the name of the Pizza Restaurant that opened in the early Seventies, near the Shakespeare Arms?  I just cannot bring it to mind.
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