Places to see in ( Dover - UK )
Places to see in ( Dover - UK )
Dover is a coastal town in England’s southeastern county of Kent. It’s a major port for ferries to Calais, in France. Built to repel invasions from across the English Channel, medieval Dover Castle overlooks the town and houses the extensive Secret Wartime Tunnels. The iconic White Cliffs of Dover are symbolic safeguards at Britain’s closest point to continental Europe.
Dover is a town and major ferry port in the home county of Kent, in South East England. It faces France across the strait of Dover, the narrowest part of the English Channel, and lies south-east of Canterbury; east of Kent's county town Maidstone; and north-east along the coastline from Dungeness and Hastings. The town is the administrative centre of the Dover District and home of the Dover Calais ferry through the Port of Dover. The surrounding chalk cliffs are known as the White Cliffs of Dover.
Dover strategic position has been evident throughout its history: archaeological finds have revealed that the area has always been a focus for peoples entering and leaving Britain. The name of the town derives from the name of the river that flows through it, the River Dour. The town has been inhabited since the Stone Age according to archaeological finds, and Dover is one of only a few places in Britain – London, Edinburgh, and Cornwall being other examples – to have a corresponding name in the French language, Douvres.
There was a military barracks in Dover, which was closed in 2007. Although many of the former ferry services have declined, services related to the Port of Dover provide a great deal of the town’s employment, as does tourism. The prospect of privatising the sale of the Port of Dover to create increased cash flow for the government was given a recent ironic twist due to the rejection of a possible bid from the town of Calais in France after opposition in Dover against any sale forced the government to withdraw the Port from the market. Local residents had clubbed together to propose buying it for the community, more than 12,000 people have bought a £10 share in the People's Port Trust.
Dover is near the extreme south-east corner of Britain between Deal and Folkestone. At South Foreland, the nearest point to the continent, Cap Gris Nez near Calais is 34 kilometres (21 mi) away, across the Strait of Dover - because of this, the town is strongly associated with France
Dover’s main communications artery, the A2 road replicates two former routes, connecting the town with Canterbury. The railway reached Dover from two directions: the South Eastern Railway's main line connected with Folkestone in 1844, and the London, Chatham and Dover Railway opened its line from Canterbury in 1861. Trains run from Dover Priory to London Charing Cross, London Victoria or London St Pancras International stations in London, and Ramsgate or Sandwich in Kent. Trains from Dover Priory are run by Southeastern (train operating company). Dover has two long distance footpaths: the Saxon Shore Way and the North Downs Way. Two National Cycle Network routes begin their journey at the town. The Port of Dover is a 20 minute walk from Dover Priory railway station.
Alot to see in ( Dover - UK ) such as :
Blériot memorial: the outline of Louis Blériot's aircraft, marked with granite setts, at the exact spot where Blériot landed after the first cross-Channel flight, 1909
Dover Castle
White Cliffs of Dover
Dover Western Heights
Dover Museum
Roman Painted House Museum
Dover Transport Museum
Samphire Hoe
Seafront promenade
South Foreland Lighthouse
Pines Garden
St Edmund's Chapel
Connaught Park
Kearsney Abbey
Russel Gardens & Bushy Ruff
St Mary's Church
St James' Church: preserved as a tidy ruin
( Dover - UK) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Dover . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Dover - UK
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Louis Bleriot Memorial | The first cross-Channel aeroplane landed here | DJI Phantom 4 Pro | 2019
Let the race begin!
In October 1908, the Daily Mail newspaper offered the prize of £500 to the first person to cross the English Channel by plane before the end of the year. When 1908 ended and no serious attempt had been made, the newspaper upped the prize to £1000 and extended it to the end of 1909.
Wilbur Wright (of the Wright brothers) had expressed interest but Orville, who was in the USA recovering from a serious crash, asked his brother to wait for him before attempting it. Both brothers regarded the prize (only £115,000 in today's money) as too little for too great a risk. This left only 3 major contenders.
Count de Lambert, a Russian aristocrat of French ancestry (and also the first person in France to be taught to fly by Wilbur Wright in late October 1908), had two Wright biplanes for his attempt. However, he damaged them both in practice which left it open to the other two contenders.
Hubert Latham, a French aviator, was favoured by both the UK and France to win and he was the first to actually attempt a crossing in his Antoinette monoplane on 19th July 1909. Unfortunately, 6 miles (9.7 km) from the English coast, his plane developed engine problems and he was forced to make a sea landing, which was in itself a world first! However, on his return to France, he learnt that Louis Bleriot had entered the competition.
Louis Bleriot, French aviator, inventor and engineer, arrived in Calais on Wednesday 21st July with two engineers and his friend and fellow aviator, Alfred Leblanc. The following day, Latham's replacement plane arrived, but the weather over the next few days was too bad for anyone to attempt a crossing. By the Saturday evening, however, there was a change in the weather and both camps felt the excitement grow. That night, Leblanc was too excited to sleep and was out of bed by 2 am. Judging the weather to be ideal, he woke Bleriot, and by 3.30 am Bleriot's wife had boarded the Escopette, a destroyer that would accompany the flight.
Bleriot made a quick trial flight at 4.15, watched by an excited crowd and then, at 4.41 am on 25th July 1909, when the sun was officially risen (the competition stated that the flight had to be made between sunrise and sunset), he took off to make the crossing. He didn't have a compass, and intended to use the Escopette to guide his course, but he was going too fast and soon over took it, finding himself alone as the visibility deteriorated. He spent a solitary 10 minutes flying without bearing before the English coast appeared as a grey outline to his left, the wind having blown him off course. Changing his course, he followed the coast about a mile off shore until he spotted the giant Tricolor flag being waved for him on land. Bleriot had not had the chance to visit Dover to pick a landing site, so the choice had been made for him by a correspondent for le Matin (a French newspaper), who chose a gentle slope near Dover Castle called Northfall Meadow. Due to gusting winds, Bleriot made a heavy 'pancake' landing which damaged the undercarriage and shattered a propeller blade, but the pilot was unhurt. His Type XI plane never flew again, but the 36.5 minute cross-Channel flight had turned Bleriot into a celebrity and instantly led to orders for copies of his aircraft. The Daily Express' headline Britain is no longer an Island illustrates how the event triggered a resurgence in the importance of aviation.
The memorial seen here marks the landing sight and was funded by English chemist and businessman Alexander Duckham, who witnessed the flight. Louis Bleriot's aircraft is preserved in the Musee des Arts et Metiers in Paris.
(On a side note, yes I am aware that I have missed accents off several French names and words, but my keyboard isn't playing ball, sorry!)
Lancaster Bomber Dover celebrating Louis Bleriot's Record-setting Flight Across the English Channel
While we were waiting to get our ropes ashore on the European Seaway we were lucky enough to experience Louis Bleriot's celebrations, listen to Rob Turner bleating it's gonna it the cranes, it's gonna it the cranes, it's gonna it the cranes!!!!!! he is funny
Snowy Dover 2nd and 3rd December 2010
Some images and clips of the landscape around Dover during the unexpected and heavy snowfall of the 2nd and 3rd December 2010. Featured is the area around Dover Castle, Connaught Park, the Louis Bleriot landing spot memorial and the moats of the Napoleonic Drop Redoubt fort.
Model Bleriot landing in Dover after Crossing the English Channel
Henk van Hoorn piloting his 1/2 scale model bleriot into St Margart's Dover after his successful flight from Calais, 15th April 2011.
Louis Blériot : The first flight across the English Channel in a heavier than air aircraft.
The Blériot Memorial, the outline of the aircraft laid out in granite setts in the turf, marks his landing spot above the cliffs near Dover Castle.
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The Daily Mail prize was first announced in October 1908, with a prize of £500 being offered for a flight made before the end of the year. When 1908 passed with no serious attempt being made, the prize money was doubled to £1,000 and the offer extended to the end of 1909. Like some of the other prizes offered by the paper, it was widely seen as nothing more than a way to gain cheap publicity: the Paris newspaper Le Matin commenting that there was no chance of the prize being won.
The English Channel had been crossed by an unmanned hydrogen balloon in 1784 and a manned crossing by Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries followed in 1785.
Blériot had three rivals for the prize, the most serious being Hubert Latham, a French national of English extraction flying an Antoinette IV monoplane. He was favoured by both the United Kingdom and France to win. The others were Charles de Lambert, a Russian aristocrat with French ancestry, and one of Wilbur Wright's pupils, and Arthur Seymour, an Englishman who reputedly owned a Voisin biplane. De Lambert got as far as establishing a base at Wissant, near Calais, but Seymour did nothing beyond submitting his entry to the Daily Mail. Lord Northcliffe, who had befriended Wilbur Wright during his sensational 1908 public demonstrations in France, had offered the prize hoping that Wilbur would win. Wilbur wanted to make an attempt and cabled brother Orville in the USA. Orville, then recuperating from serious injuries sustained in a crash, replied telling him not to make the Channel attempt until he could come to France and assist. Also Wilbur had already amassed a fortune in prize money for altitude and duration flights and had secured sales contracts for the Wright Flyer with the French, Italians, British and Germans: his tour in Europe was essentially complete by the summer of 1909. Both brothers saw the Channel attempt of only a thousand pounds as insignificant considering the dangers of the flight.
At 4:15 am on the 25 July 1909, watched by an excited crowd, Blériot made a short trial flight and then, on a signal that the sun had risen (the competition rules required a flight between sunrise and sunset), he took off at 4:41 for the attempted crossing. Flying at approximately 45 mph (72 km/h) and an altitude of about 250 ft (76 m), he set off across the Channel. Not having a compass, Blériot took his course from the Escopette, which was heading for Dover, but he soon overtook the ship. The visibility had deteriorated and he later said, “for more than 10 minutes I was alone, isolated, lost in the midst of the immense sea, and I did not see anything on the horizon or a single ship”.
The grey line of the English coast, however, came into sight in his left; the wind had increased, and had blown him to the east of his intended course. Altering course, he followed the line of the coast about a mile offshore until he spotted Charles Fontaine, the correspondent from Le Matin waving a large Tricolour as a signal. Unlike Latham, Blériot had not visited Dover to find a suitable spot to land, and the choice had been made by Fontaine, who had selected a patch of gently sloping land called Northfall Meadow, close to Dover Castle, where there was a low point in the cliffs. Once over land, he circled twice to lose height, and cut his engine at an altitude of about 20 m (66 ft), making a heavy pancake landing due to the gusty wind conditions; the undercarriage was damaged and one blade of the propeller was shattered, but Blériot was unhurt. The flight had taken 36 minutes and 30 seconds.
Hovercraft Over Channel (1959)
Title reads: Hovercraft over Channel.
Calais, France and Dover, Kent.
G/V hovercraft being prepared at Calais Harbour, camera pans to crowd lining the quayside. C/U French policeman looking on. G/V hovercraft being fuelled. C/U test pilot Peter Lamb. Angle shot: crane about to lift Hovercraft into water. Top shot: looking down on the Hovercraft as the engine starts up. C/U flap being tested. Top shot: hovercraft being lifted from the quayside and being placed on the water. C/U two French girls looking on. Top shot: the Hovercraft leaving the quayside as it starts off across the harbour waters. C/U two French men looking on. G/V hovercraft travelling out of Calais Harbour following a ship. L/S hovercraft throwing up clouds of spray around it as it speeds along.
Panning shot from the cliffs of Dover to the Bleriot Memorial ceremony being held at the spot where pioneer aeroplane pilot Louis Bleriot landed after his first Channel crossing. C/U plaque to the memory of Bleriot on the spot where he landed. G/V crowds watching the ceremony. C/U Madame Bleriot at the ceremony. Angle shot pan Hunter planes of 111 Squadron flying overhead. G/V Mme. Bleriot standing to attention. C/U French officers saluting. G/V crowds applauding. C/U Mme. Bleriot walking down to look at plaque. C/U pioneer aviator Lord Brabazon raising his hat. Panning shot from Mme. Bleriot down to the plaque which she is looking at.
G/V hovercraft approaching the beach at Dover. L/S crowds waving. Panning shot hovercraft leaving the sea, going up the beach and finally coming to rest. Panning shot Lamb jumping off the hovercraft onto the beach. G/V crowds around hovercraft. C/U designer Mr. C. S. Cockerell, inventor of hovercraft, wiping his glasses.
Note: booklets, programmes and tourist brochures about this event on file.
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FIFTY YEARS AFTER
Bleriot's Memorial celebrations took place in the shadow of the Dover Castle, recalling a milestone in the conquest of the air. Fifty years ago Louis Bleriot took off from Calais in a flimsy contraption weighing less than five hundredweight, and 37 minutes later he landed at Dover. He became the first man to fly the Channel.
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WW1 Aircraft Crash Air Raid German Gotha Fighter Plane 1917 Louis Bleriot 1909 Postcards
WW1 Aircraft Crash Air Raid German Gotha Fighter Plane 1917 Louis Bleriot 1909 Postcards
This video features the following early aviation postcards:
1. L'aeroplane Wilbur Wright. L'arrivee au pylone (postally unused). Corse advert on back
2. M. Latham's Flying Machine (the first person to attempt to cross the British Channel in a heavier-than-air aircraft). Postally unused.
3. M. Louis Bleriot Flies From Calais to Dover on 25th July, 1909. Postally sent on 5 August, 1909.
4. A Stirring Episode in the Raid of 22nd Aug., 1917. This postcard features a long a distance German Gotha aircraft being shot down over Kent, probably Folkestone. Postally unused.
A memorial arch was unveiled in Folkestone by Prince Harry, as thousands turned out to remember the
A memorial arch was unveiled in Folkestone by Prince Harry, as thousands turned out to remember the soldiers who gave their lives across The Channel.
GARDEN OF ENGLAND WITH DIRTY HARRY, MAY 2017
Dirty Harry takes a trip nearer the equator to the Garden of England, Kent, May 2017, with a bit of Bedfordshire on the way back.
00:00 Opening credits.
00:13 Crossing the Thames.
01:38 Arrival at Walmer/Deal.
04:21 Walmer beach.
04:32 Kingsdown.
04:55 Deal/Deal Castle.
06:37 Dover Castle.
12:58 Off to St Margarets at Cliffe.
15:41 St Margarets at Cliffe.
17:48 Battle of Britain memorial, Capel-le-Ferne.
21:19 Along the front, Folkestone to Hythe.
22:07 The old lighthouse, Dungeness.
22:14 Dover.
23:29 Bleriot Monument.
24:23 Walmer Castle.
27:06 Wrest Park, Bedfordshire.
Dover
Dover (/ˈdoʊvər/; French: Douvres) is a town and major ferry port in the home county of Kent, in South East England. It faces France across the narrowest part of the English Channel, and lies south-east of Canterbury; east of Kent's administrative capital Maidstone; and north-east along the coastline from Dungeness and Hastings. The town is the administrative centre of the Dover District and home of the Dover Calais ferry through the Port of Dover. The surrounding chalk cliffs have become known as the White Cliffs of Dover, and the narrow sea passage nearby – the Strait of Dover. Its strategic position has been evident throughout its history: archaeological finds have revealed that the area has always been a focus for peoples entering and leaving Britain. The name of the town derives from the name of the river that flows through it, the River Dour. The town has been inhabited since the Stone Age according to archaeological finds, and Dover is one of only a few places in Britain – London, Edinburgh, and Cornwall being other examples – to have a corresponding name in the French language, Douvres.
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Знаменитый английский тяжелый бомбардировщик Авро 683 Ланкастер.Восстановленная техника.
Авро 683 Ланкастер (англ. Avro 683 Lancaster) — британский тяжёлый четырёхмоторный бомбардировщик, состоявший на вооружении Королевских ВВС. Являлся основным, наряду с «Галифаксом», тяжёлым бомбардировщиком Королевских ВВС во время Второй мировой войны (на его счету 3/4 всего бомбового груза, сброшенного во ВМВ британской авиацией). Первый боевой вылет «Ланкастеров» был совершён в марте 1942 года. Всего «Ланкастеры» совершили более 156 тысяч боевых вылетов и сбросили более 600 000 тонн бомб. Также использовался для множества других целей, включая точные дневные удары, доставку сверхтяжёлых бомб «Tallboy» и «Grand Slam». Большую известность получил после проведённой в 1943 году — в ходе операции «Большая порка» — бомбардировки плотин в долине Рура. Название получил по небольшому английскому городу Ланкастер.
Hrh Prince Of Wales Reaches Calais Before Going To War Zone (1914-1918)
HRH Prince of Wales reaches Calais before going to war zone. Location of events unknown.
World War One; royalty. Brief story on the arrival of the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII for a short time) in France;on his way to the war zone. Prince walks down steps toward camera; tipping his hat; he wears civilian dress. A few other men follow the Prince.
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The Men Who Kept The Narrow Seas Aka War Memorial Narrow Seas (1920)
War memorial in Calais, France. Full titles read: The Men who kept the Narrow Seas - Marshal Foch lays foundation stone of the Dover Patrol Memorial, at Cap Blanc Nez.
Nice M/S of soldiers stood either side of a large foundation stone. The stone reads: THIS STONE WAS LAID BY MARSHAL F. FOCH, G.C.B.O.M - 26TH JANUARY 1920 M/S soldiers standing in line, some hold aloft the French Tricolour. Marshal Foch and other senior officials walk by.
M/S of soldiers with their rifles raised upwards, standing in line whilst the Marshall gives an inspection. There is a strong military feel to this film.
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British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.
Hollingsbee Collection
The Hollingsbee Collection gives a taste of photographs on Dover that have been amassed by Bob and Kathleen Hollingsbee. It is an entry in the short film competition of the 2010 Dover Film Festival.
Visit dover-film.com to view other entries. Register a vote.
The Brother Hood Of The Sea - Calais (1924)
Calais, France.
Title: The BROTHERHOOD OF THE SEA British Lifeboats and British Policemen! take part in Annual 'Festival of the Sea' at Calais.
High angled shot of policemen escorting a parade of uniformed buglers on horseback riding down a crowd lined street. High angled shot of a crowded square, in the middle of the crowd is a raised platform (looks like a bandstand), pan to show floats coming down a side street.
M/S of a horse drawn float in the shape of the globe, it is followed by a brass band. M/S of a float with a mermaid sitting in a giant clam shell. High angled shot of enormous models of men and women in traditional French costume.
Note: there is another story in this issue called - THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE SEA - which shows a carnival in Jersey.
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Soul Sisters
Soul Sisters performing at La salle vert, Dover, Kent, England, UK on Friday 26th June 2009
BBMF Lancaster at Rochester 25 7 09
As part of the BAE Systems Families' Day at Rochester Airport, the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Lancaster gave a solo display, before heading for Dover where the Louis Bleriot celebrations were being held.