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Thanks for this Chris, love this gig history

Got all of these gigs in the Metronome history page, don't suppose you have the actual dates of any of those do you?

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RE: Toft`s / gigs in 1969

I used to go to Tofts regularly during the 60s (when it was at Grace Hill). Used to be one of my favourite venues. (The other being the Epress Ballroom, a bit further down the hill on the other side)Can't remember dates, but I saw Long John Baldry th...

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CLARKE

Re: CLARKEi am searching for a brian r clarke that served in the united states air force and he would of been based in hygh wycombe area 1965.once he finished his tour of duty he then returned to usa.he was around the age of 22-25 back then .any info...

My family History

Hi I am intereted in genealogy and have recently found out from my brother that he used to dance at Leas Cliff Hall in the 50s when he was stationed at Dover while serving in the York and Lancs reg, coincidentally my father told him he did the same t...

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Is it still the Three Mackerel?

It has had more names than that in just the few years I've been here, it seems jinxed... It was Nostalgia Bar a fifties themed bar just before it was Euphoria I think. I've only liked one of the incarnations in recent years, when it had the hexagonal...

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Folkestone fringe

at the leas lift, curated by club shepway:this saturday and sunday cathy lomax and alex michon present l'estranger:where paranoid plup fiction drives out fact...a dishevelled young stranger arrives at a coastal town. his clothes are strange and his f...

RE: Vanished businesses

Feltonfleet moved to Cobham, Surrey after moving from Folkestone and pupils were evacuated during the war to Perrott Hill in Crewkerne, Somerset. After the war, the school moved back to the existing site in Surrey and is very much thriving now as a ...

How did we miss this anniversary?

Yesterday was the 100th anniversary of the world's first beauty contest, held in Folkestone, on the pier.More in the history department....

Look at the rubbish I went to in 1993

I was clearly going to anything that was going in 1993, but Pulp played Portsmouth TWICE in 1993 and I didn't go. What was going on? Radiohead also played Portsmouth and Southampton this year, supposedly my peak years when I was doing the fanzine, I ...

The Pavilion Hotel

Am I right that The Pavilion Hotel was on the spot where the Burstin is now?

Some old photos of Folkestone

I bought an album of photos not so long ago and these photos of Wear Bay Road and Folkestone were included in it. I thought you might like to see them and possibly pass on the the ones of Wear Bay Road to any residents of houses featured. I don't kno...
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Got an email about the School of Art

From Eamon Everall no less:Hi, you ask for info on Folkestone School of Art , I went there from 1966 to 1967. When i went it was where the multi story car park opposite the junction of Alexandra Gardens & Middleburg Square, now is. More or less oppo...

Simple Simon's: GONE!

Simple Simon's has reopened as "The Parrot". Still very similar, less independent beers on the bar and more Youngs, as that's who owns it now. Had a brace of pints there yesterday afternoon and it was very nice. They now sell bottles of beer at the b...
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Is this who's bought the Metronome?

assura group has a metronome page, looks like they own other medical type facilities so this backs up the story of it being bought by a health care trust.Just found a PJ Harvey gig at the Metronome, and another where she almost played at Bottoms. But...

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FHS MTG 19 MAY 7PM THE GRAND, THE LEAS, FOLKESTONE

PLEASE DO COME TO THE GRAND HOTEL ON THE LEAS ON MONDAY MAY 19th AT 7PM. Once again Folkestone's history is under threat as developers plan to demolish the Harbour Railway Station, the Station Master's House, the Signal Box and Viaduct in order to b...
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Internet history

I made this Barfly page in 1998, and it's still there. I don't have access to that server or anything, I wonder if anyone else does? No idea who Moorhaven were or why they were singled out among all the fake Shag Frenzy dates. That was before I went ...

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We have a Hazzard in our family by marriage

But I don't know anything about the history of the family I'm afraid, good luck tracking them down.

HAZZARD Genealogy

9 April 2008Dear Pauly:Has anyone that has posted or who reads this blog ever heard of a man called "Rhodes Hazzard"? He is my GGG-grandfather who was b. 11 Oct. 1806, he turns up in Sussex County, Delaware (U.S.A.) (ref. "The History of Delaware" J...

Summer Season show at the Leas Cliff in 1974 with Gordon & Bunny Jay

Personally I don't, hopefully someone will be able to contribute something. I will research!Here's a history of Gordon and Bunny Jay, and here's my 1974 page....

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New not-comedy on BBC4

Looking forward to this, the first in a new series "The curse of comedy", it'll be a drama mockumentary type thing about the relationship between Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett. Starring Jason Isaacs (The State Within) as Harry H Corbett and Ph...

Great book, slight repost

I've got this book and it's great, a full history of all the drinking establishments in Folkestone and surrounding villages. And here's a rare copy on ebay, starting bid 99p.Splendid weather today, think the storms have moved North, it's bright and c...

More Tales From The Tap Room, 99p

I've got this book and it's great, a full history of all the drinking establishments in Folkestone and surrounding villages. And here's a rare copy on ebay, starting bid 99p....

Jack the Ripper exhibition tickets

This sounds good, there's a Jack the Ripper exhibition on at the Museum in Docklands. Not connected as such with my family, nor with your family I expect, but look, see, history and that. Fascinating stuff.From 15 May - 2 November Museum in Docklands...

THE Brian Wilson?

Sounds like it was a pretty exciting night, did everyone know at the time what a treat it was?

Mr Gordon Brown refused my demand to abolish religious mythology in schools

Well fancy that. Do you think that one day a boy will ever be born who can swim faster than a shark one of these petitions will provoke anything other than a dismissal? We received a petition asking: "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister...

RE: Folkestone and its neighbourhood by S. J. Mackie

hI,i READ YOUR MESSAGE ABOUT GETTING "EASY" GETTING A COPY OF "mackie". i'M ONLY INTERESTED IN pAGE 152 REF "coldham".Did you obtain it, and if so, could you guide me as to how i could obtain a copy, ideally at a low price.With many thanksGerard Cold...

Wikipedia says no

From Alice Keppel's wikipedia entry:Keppel was born Alice Frederica Edmonstone, to Sir William Edmonstone, 4th Baronet and Mary Elizabeth Edmonstone, n�e Parsons, at Duntreath Castle in the Blane Valley, near the village of Strathblane, north of Glas...
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Family tree home

Hi I am trying to find info on my G.Grandfather William John Clarke, who lived in N.S.W. in the 1800's he married Rebecca Cleland and had 13 Children one of those was my Grandfather Alfred Edward Clarke who came to N.Z. in about 1889-1890.William was...

The unknown child of the Titanic

A video:...

Harry Clarke / Fairy Tales

first edition Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales, quite a high starting bid of $280, but it does look nice......