The Great Tower of Dover Castle has for many years been somewhere that I found disappointing to visit, years ago when I used to visit the keep it was decorated with an eclectic collection armour and weapons. I suppose it looked a bit like one would expect a baronial hall to be decorated in an old American film based on a British novel.
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Friday 17 June 2011
Dover Castle
The Great Tower of Dover Castle has for many years been somewhere that I found disappointing to visit, years ago when I used to visit the keep it was decorated with an eclectic collection armour and weapons. I suppose it looked a bit like one would expect a baronial hall to be decorated in an old American film based on a British novel.
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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.
Why is photography banned in the Dover Tunnels?
ReplyDeleteBen K
Ben I would say having filled it with projectors and lighting effects, people using camera flashes and blinding everyone else could have something to with it, it would be rather like using a camera in the cinema.
ReplyDeleteRamsgate Tunnels although usually fairly full of activity, don’t have any special effects.
I think the main reason is wanting to get the biggest volume of people through the tunnels - a group of 40 all wanting to take photos will grind the whole system to a halt.....
ReplyDeleteI think the main reason is pathetic control freakery. They are desperate that people pay to come in rather than looking at phots of the place on someone's blog. Only a matter of time before TDC tries to stop Michael Childs from taking photographs of Ramsgate and putting them on his blog. No doubt there will be a licence you can buy for several thousands of pounds.
ReplyDeleteI`m not an English Heritage member, so it would cost me 16 quid to enter.
ReplyDeleteToo much...
Ben K