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The Tennis Courts on St. Anne's Road: empty as usual.62

Tennis For Free

The Tennis Courts on St. Anne's Road: empty as usual. A friend of mine likes to play tennis. He lives in Tankerton, so the nearest courts are in St. Anne’s Road. The courts were run by Margaret...

2 comments    sports united states tennis
The Unknown at the Labour Club70

The Unknown at the Labour Club

The Unknown at the Labour Club There was a band on at the Labour Club this weekend, called The Unknown. This was their 20th anniversary. They’ve played at the Labour Club once a year, every year,...

4 comments    music shape whitstable
Geoff in the Labour Club Photograph by Big Pete65

In Memory of Geoff Squires

The reason I knew him is that we were both Midlanders who came to Whitstable at about the same time. Geoff was from Coventry, while I am from Birmingham...

0 comments    tobacco customs birmingham
Cornwallis Circle play area71

Canterbury City Council and the Situationist International

The organization calling itself “Canterbury City Council” is, in fact, the front for a highly organized group of international revolutionaries out to exploit the discontent of the toddlers and young people of Whitstable for their own nefarious ends.

2 comments    travel politics whitstable
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Keep Whitstable Different!

Local residents have set up a campaign to ‘Keep Whitstable Different’ in response to the proposed development of the Gladstone Road Post Office.

7 comments    politics supermarket post office
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Is It Tesco Or Isn't It?

The fact that a voracious, profit-hungry superstore in our midst could, quite conceivably, suck the heart out of our town, is irrelevant in planning terms.

9 comments    money planning post office
One of the climbing frames in Cornwallis Circle play area.62

The Cornwallis Circle play area

But Cornwallis Circle is a lovely play area. It has two climbing frames, two slides, two sets of swings, a roundabout, a see-saw, a wooden platform and a basket ball pitch, all of them in perfectly good condition. My niece Beatrix loves it.

5 comments    children fun play
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Hugh Hopper, ex Soft Machine, dies in Whitstable

Hugh Hopper, ex bass player with the Soft Machine, died of leukaemia on June 7th 2009 in Whitstable. He was 64 years old. The irony here is that I was a Soft Machine fan, but I didn’t even know he...

5 comments    whitstable cj stone mothers club
Frank Schofield in his customary spot in front of the Whitstable Town map near the Harbour.63

Too Old To Volunteer?

“I could take the world on up top,” he says, pointing to his head. “It’s just my leg that lets me down.”

14 comments    tourism volunteer harbour
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The Sign Outside The Old Neptune Pub

For the second year running this sign has appeared outside the Old Neptune pub in Whitstable. It basically tells drinkers not to sit on the landward side of the seawall with their drinks, but to sit on the...

8 comments    neptune whitstable the neppie
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