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Looks like he may be about to make his desired move to the Cambridgeshire area.

 

From Kent Online

 

'Cambridge have already had two bids in the region of £2,000 turned down but they have now matched Welling's valuation of the player'

 

£10,000, presumably. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

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It's a wonder that he scored 22 goals for Welling this year - what with him not having any eyes to see the goal!!

 

That's a really unflattering photo of Boothy... mind you, I would be glad to see him return to Stonebridge Road - an extremely useful player and he'd be a quality addition to the squad.

 

 

PS No apologies needed jc, Gravesend is hardly well represented in the literary world - and to pluck it from two classics is easy enough. Indeed, we'd be hard pushed to find other references to the town...answers on a postcard please.

 

PPS Dot Cotton's sojourn at the Clarendon is hardly worthy of a mention... <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

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Gravesend is hardly well represented in the literary world - and to pluck it from two classics is easy enough. Indeed, we'd be hard pushed to find other references to the town...answers on a postcard please.

PPS Dot Cotton's sojourn at the Clarendon is hardly worthy of a mention... <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />


Charles Dickens gives it a mention quite a few times, but then he was a fairly local lad: Pip & Magwitch row past Gravesend on their abortive attempt to smuggle the old boy out the country in Great Expectations & another novel (Pickwick Papers?) mentions it as a favourite holiday destination for less well heeled Londoners.

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PPS Dot Cotton's sojourn at the Clarendon is hardly worthy of a mention... <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />


I remember this well. Someone asked her "was she going anywhere nice"? "No" she replied, "Only Gravesend"!

We didn't even get a mention at the end of Pocahontas, the Disney version. Bloody misinformed Hollywood!
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It's mentioned once in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich as the eastern point of a line stretching to Portsmouth that the Germans earmarked as their first front in the event of an invasion.

 

Don't quite recall how I know that...

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If it's TV references to Gravesend you want, how about in venerable comedy The Brittas Empire, where Gordon Brittas is shot in the chest, but saved from death by the 'I've been to Gravesend' coaster in his breast pocket?

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jc said:Gordon Brittas is saved from death by the 'I've been to Gravesend' coaster in his breast pocket


Brilliant!

Memo to Jessica: Get some ordered and stocked up for the club shop. There's sure to be a rush on those!
I bought the old 6" GNFC rulers for uni friends once as Christmas presents (yeah, I know - tight b*stard!) and they still use them to this day: even going as far as taking them to the Southport away game two seasons ago as a less obtrusive alternative to a scarf!!
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PS No apologies needed jc, Gravesend is hardly well represented in the literary world - and to pluck it from two classics is easy enough. Indeed, we'd be hard pushed to find other references to the town...answers on a postcard please.



Joseph Conrad as a seafarer knew all about Gravesend in the late 19th to early 20th century.

This proves that he immediately recognized the differnce between the charm of the Kent side & the utter [****!!****] on view on the Essex side of the river:

"The houses of Gravesend crowd upon the shore with an effect of confusion as if they had tumbled down haphazard from the top of the hill at the back. The flatness of the Kentish shore ends there. A fleet of steam-tugs lies at anchor in front of the various piers. A conspicuous church spire, the first seen distinctly coming from the sea, has a thoughtful grace, the serenity of a fine form above the chaotic disorder of men's houses.

But on the other side, on the flat Essex side, a shapeless and desolate red edifice, a vast pile of bricks with many windows and a slate roof more inaccessible than an Alpine slope, towers over the bend in monstrous ugliness, the tallest, heaviest building for miles around, a thing like an hotel, like a mansion of flats (all to let), exiled into these fields out of a street in West Kensington."

(Referring to the now demolished Tilbury hotel, but "the flat Essex side" - indeed; where elephants go to die ...)

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(Referring to the now demolished Tilbury hotel, but "the flat Essex side" - indeed; where elephants go to die ...)

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I don't think they go there with the intention of dying Lennie, its just that once the lassitude of Essex descends on them dying seems like an attractive option. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />
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