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A short video giving a flavour of our very successful WWII oral history projects

12/6/2019

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One of our supporters has a Dover lotto win!

9/30/2019

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  Mr. F (FOLKESTONE) supporting Pavement Pounders Community Interest Company matched 2 numbers and won 3 extra tickets​.
The next winner could be you, the top prize is £25,000.00

Buy DoverLotto tickets​
Not only will it help us to to gather more memories, you might win £25000.00!
With the numbers of those who remember that dark period dwindling by the day, fewer survive to tell their story
​We hope you enjoyed the audio clips of living witnesses to life in WWII Dover  posted on Facebook to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the silencing of the guns which shelled the town.

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These clips were provided by Pavement Pounders Community Interest Company a not for profit group run by volunteers..
Dover District Council  has recognised our Dover WWII oral history project  as a good cause worthy of support by approving us for their DoverLotto  scheme.

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75th. anniversary of Operation Undergo

9/24/2019

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The Mitre Pub in Snargate Street was hit on that day.

Hear Robert Hearn son of Albert and Florence who ran the Mitre describe that day.
Our oral history project "Keep off the Beach" is interviewing living witnesses to the shelling of Dover.
This third audio clip features Robert Hearn who lived with his parents in the Mitre pub Snargate Street which was destroyed by a shell on 26th September 1944.
Happily the family survived. The pub was never rebuilt.

Help us to collect and preserve these precious memories
Buy Doverlotto tickets!

https://www.doverlotto.com/support/pavement-pounders-community-interest-company

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Thank you to Betty Danson for the press cuttings from the Sunday Express which she kept  since 1944
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Help us Record your heritage

7/23/2019

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 We are a not for profit community interest company. 
Over the last 18 months we have been working on an oral history project interviewing people who spent their childhoods in the Kent seaside towns of ​Dover, Folkestone,  Margate and Ramsgate during WWII. A pilot project funded by Kent County Councillors from Folkestone and Thanet and the Community Fund.  
The response to our call for memory sharers has been very generously answered so much so that it has spawned several smaller projects  in Folkestone and above all, here in Dover.
Dover District Council has launched a local authority lottery: The Dover District Lotto to help local good causes. We are very pleased to announce that the council has approved our project as worth supporting.
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lease buy a ticket so that we can continue to record and preserve the  stories of quiet courage and resilience shown by the people of Dover.

Give it a go! You may even win £25,000.00
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oPEN qUARTER 2019

6/6/2019

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Walks.  Prescient Pool

4/29/2019

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Bizarre Crossings At The Radnor Arms

4/23/2019

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Prescient Pool

3/29/2019

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Busy Day on 21st Feb. for our oral history project

2/20/2019

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In the morning we shall be explaining the project to the people at Albany House  Dover
Thanks to Sharon for inviting us.
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Then after lunch over to Temple Ewell to interview Robert Hearn who has very kindly agreed to share his memories with us
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New year, new number

2/1/2019

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Merry ChristmaS 2018

12/18/2018

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Prescient Pool A Hop Projects-Pavement Pounders collaboration

11/22/2018

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Prescient Pool’s aim is to make existing materials available to a new audience, and to give people and communities from Folkestone (as expressed through the work of Pavement Pounders) a new and international platform that is inclusive and dynamic. The programme is event-based, focusing on three commissions from three different artists who will be developing new work based on published materials, 

Look out for events relating to this project which start in March 2019

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FOLKESTONE UNDER ATTACK ​A new project for 2019-20

10/5/2018

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​An oral history and video project centred on the map in Folkestone Museum showing where bombs, shells and VI rockets fell during WWII. The idea is to add live testimony to an otherwise rather dry exhibit.
 This project is part funded by Folkestone Town Council
​The picture shows the bombing of The Central Cinema George Lane, Folkestone
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The end is in sight.  a guided walk

8/29/2018

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 Join us to learn about the history of Chilham including the mystery of St Augustine’s tomb. We will cross the beautiful square between church and castle, follow the castle wall along Mountain Street on the North Downs’ Way and Canterbury pilgrims’ route while touching on the traditions of pilgrimage Before disappearing into an ancient chalk holloway climbing up to Kingswood we will talk, amongst other things, about trees! Emerging from the woods into Chilham castle grounds, private but open to us thanks to the kindness of the owners, we shall at last catch sight of our end, Canterbury Cathedral. Here we shall reveal a charming modern personal tale linking castle and cathedral told to us by the Chilham estate manager. This event is being run as part of a series of events and activities to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Kent Downs AONB and the 40th Anniversary of the North Downs Way.


This is a free event but please book to give us some idea of numbers
Phone 0130354085  Mob 07505 813297


Post code of event CT4 8BY





 
 




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oFF TO fOLKESTONE mUSEUM THIS MORNING

7/27/2018

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Meeting with Jennifer Buchman to discuss exciting developments for our WWII Front-line Kent Childhoods project with particular relevance to Folkestone and Sandgate.
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we shall be at the Quarterhouse, Folkestone on 13th July 11.00-13.00 recruiting volunteers

7/3/2018

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Shepway Stronger Kent Community Fair.

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CONNECTING CREATIVES

6/11/2018

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Pavement Pounders will be taking part
in Open Quarter 15th- 24th June 


Open Quarter 2018 launches with the fourth annual Connecting Creatives on Friday 15 June.2018
Local business owners, artists and start-ups are invited to meet, share knowledge and talk about plans for the future.

This year’s speakers include:

Rachel Langford – Core Therapies                                                                          Rachel & Saul Kitchen – Bounce Vintage

​Katy Baird – Performance artist and Producer at Steakhouse Live

Rebekah Jones – 1DegreeEast                                                                                  David Lay– Pavement Pounders CIC

Kerry Ryan – Write Like a Grrrl                                                                            Daniel Fosbery – Fosbery Studio

Louis Pryer – codeHarbour                                                                                    James Hooker – Hack The Box


Tomás Poblete and Nina Shen-Poblete – HOP Projects CT20                                    Adrian Lockwood –  Creative Quarter

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Studio 5 56/58 The Old High Street, phone 01303 854085
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Do you live in Thanet?

5/23/2018

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Book signing in Folkestone

5/16/2018

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THE PERFECT GIFT FOR THE DOG IN YOUR LIFE

2/26/2018

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Maryanne Grant Traylen's book "A Dog on the Downs" A lavishly illustrated and beautifully written.
Available from us phone 01303 489483  0750 5813297. e-mail pavementpounders@gmail.com


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keep off the beach!

2/12/2018

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kEEP OFF THE BEACH!

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WWII Front-line Kent Childhoods
A Pavement Pounders CIC  oral history project.
​Pilot project funded by KCC 

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We started this project in November 2017.
We are gathering spoken memories from people in the Kent seaside towns of Folkestone, Hythe, Margate and Ramsgate.

​On Saturday 10th March at 11.00
at Folkestone Town Hall

​We shall be showcasing the results of the first few months of this year long project.

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All are welcome

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The perfect gift for the dog in your life

12/9/2017

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Maryanne Grant Traylen's book "A Dog on the Downs" A lavishly illustrated and beautifully written
Available from us phone 01303 489483  0750 5813297. e-mail pavementpounders@gmail.com
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Book Launch at the Lime Bar Folkestone

11/2/2017

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10th November at 19.30
​Lime Bar   46 Tontine ST.   Folkestone

Readings and songs adapted from the book performed by the  Wild Flowers Choir led by Carol Grimes
​New concise version of Maryanne Grant Traylen's "Dog on the Downs" published by Troubador 
​Get your signed copy for the discounted price of £25.00
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Sea Edge . Ten artists' work on show in Hythe

10/21/2017

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A book to celebrate our life by the sea and David's participation in "Sea edge", an exhibition of the work of ten artists

10/19/2017

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These writings and images by writer Maryanne Grant Traylen and artist David Lay are published as a celebration of our life
together at the sea edge. 


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