Our 2013 Folkestone Book Festival  Walk

Sun 24 November 
Meet 11.00 at The  Quarterhouse, 
Tontine Street, Folkestone. 

No two Pavement Pounders guided walks are ever the same. Their offering for the 2013 Book Festival will lead us down untrodden paths and shed new light on familiar byways. En route we shall meet and be entertained by the odd guest speaker with tales both tall and short. Join us. 
Sun 24 Nov,11:00am   

Buy tickets. 
There is a substantial discount for friends of the book festival
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Copies can be bought at various outlets in Folkestone's Creative Quarter: The Quarterhouse, Anecdotes, Mkartlabs, The Johnny Cotter Gallery  or directly from us 01303 227150



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Folkestone Town Council have given us a grant towards the cost of making a permanent record of some of our guided walks by publishing them in book form. 

Our first events of 2013, Valentine special in London N.W.3 on Saturday 16th Feb.

Meet outside Hampstead Tube at 2 p.m

We shall read love poems by Keats, D.H.Lawrence, Tagore and others at venues associated with them or their loves.
Please note
Most of our walks remain free especially the Folkestone walks but this one, which we have been doing for five years, is special. 
Link to Time out review from last year
http://www.timeout.com/london/around-town/event/252737/valentines-special-poetry-and-guided-walk

Price £10.00 Advance booking recommended
01303 227150
0750-581-3297
 pavementpounders@gmail.com

We are planning a christmas special guided walk about smugglers.
and would love to hear from anybody interested in attending and from anyone with smuggling stories to tell.
David or Maryanne 
01303 227150

Still places available for our Book Festival walk on Thursday 8th November 2012
A guided walk for the Folkestone Book Festival by local Community Interest Company Pavement Pounders. This year our walk will be loosely based on the theme of innovation – scientific, artistic, metaphorical and concrete – both past and present. From the coming of the railways 150 years ago to the making of The Creative Quarter, innovation has been central to the story of Folkestone.

Explore with us this heritage on our doorstep

 BOOKING ONLINE 
Buy tickets online from: www.quarterhouse.co.uk

IN PERSON
Quarterhouse Box Office
Quarterhouse,
Mill Bay,
Folkestone, Kent
CT20 1BN

BOX OFFICE OPENING
Mon – Fri 9am – 5pm
Sat – 10am – 5pm
Telephone – 01303 858 500
If the line is busy, please leave a message with your name and telephone number and one of the Box Office team will contact you as soon as possible.

PAYMENT
Cheques to be made payable to The Creative Foundation and can only be used in person at the Box Office. Credit and debit cards carry a £1 fee per transaction.

TICKET COLLECTION
Tickets that are paid for in advance can be collected on the day, 30 minutes prior to the event. Tickets can also be posted to you for an additional charge of 50p. Please check your tickets on receipt.


[THURSDAY 8TH NOVEMBER ]
[ MEET AT QUARTERHOUSE ] [ 11.30AM ]
[ £6.50 / £5.50 FRIENDS / £4.50 CONC. ]

http://folkestonebookfest.com/pavement-pounders/

We have devised a guided walk during which we shall talk about the Saxon saint, founder of England's first nunnery in Folkestone and take a look at some local church architecture.

Thanks to all who attended. Special thanks to our guest speakers Ian and Nick 

Pavement Pounders Community Interest Company

We are a community interest  company working  in the heart of Folkestone’s Creative Quarter.

We set up Pavement Pounders as a CIC in April 2010 as a vehicle for our Pride of Place Project.

The aim of the project is to foster pride in our town, Folkestone by exploring the heritage on our doorstep.
There are four strands to the project                                                                                              
1. Tours and Guided walks
2. Drawing Workshops
3. Our Journal with contributions from local and better known writers
4. Voices of Folkestone. Our oral history project

These strands provide a broad base from which to involve the  local community  and to show that Folkestone has a rich history, past, present and future of which we can all be proud.

This is our Blog where you can find out about our events, guided walks, drawing workshops, exhibitions and talks 


Next Event


The Building of Folkestone , a guided walk
Meet at The Quarterhouse, Tontine Street, Folkestone,   6 p.m.Wednesday 8th August

The Building of Folkestone , a guided walk
Meet at The Quarterhouse, Tontine Street, Folkestone,   6 p.m.Wednesday 8th August

There were two busy periods of building in seaside towns in the last 200 years The first in the 19th century starting with the popularity of sea bathing ,followed by the coming of the railways and then in the 1880’s legislation creating annual holidays for workers. The second resulting from seaside regeneration through the arts which is happening now.
In Folkestone, the driving forces for these two movements were Lord Radnor, lord of the manor in the Victorian era and Roger DeHann of Saga, the town’s biggest employer , in our own time.
This tour will look mainly at buildings created as a result of these two periods of regeneration.


Register/Contact details

Visit: http://www.facebook.com/pavement.pounders
Email: pavementpounders@gmail.com 
Phone: 07505813297