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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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9/30/2019

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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.

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.

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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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