Calling the folks of Dover! We would love to hear your Dover stories, as Strange Cargo is making the ‘Everywhere Means Something to Someone’ people’s guidebooks to Dover. Not an ordinary guidebook but one filled with hundreds of local stories and photos about places in and around the town that you know well. Strange Cargo…
A wonderful appearance of Santa and Sleigh in Dover last night, running alongside Kent Fire and Rescue Truck and Dover Town Council. We were happy to be able to help guide Santa’s sleigh around Dover. Jingles and music also filled the night as families could meet and greet Santa on his sleigh covered in twinkly…
Please click here to view the Dover Town Council Winter Newsletter (pages 16-17). Special thanks to Community AD Magazine.
Elections are held for District and Parish/Town Councillors every four years where all seats will be re-elected at the same time. The next scheduled all-out District & Parish elections in Dover are due to take place in May 2023. If you would like to become a Councillor and think you can make a difference, please contact the elections…
Congratulations to Action carpets & Flooring for winning this years – Best Dressed Christmas Window Competition 2022 Competitors could enter their best shop front winter displays last month to the Dover Town Team, who sponsored the event. The top prize awarded to Action had been decked with lights, artwork, reindeer and glitter making sure to…
Dover shone bright on Saturday 3rd December with a procession of 5 metre tall dancing lantern sculptures transforming its streets, accompanied by a 1000 children and adults carrying 500 star lanterns. Huge queues formed for the enchanting Fire Garden created by Walk the Plank and filling the Roman lawn with shooting flames and steampunk wizardry. …
Save the dates Friday 2nd & Saturday 3rd of December, Dover’s Winter Light Up is back! This year we will be bringing a two-day Winter Fire Garden on Dover’s Roman Lawn (by Market Square) illuminated by outdoor arts experts Walk the Plank, sponsored by Port of Dover, Entry is free; the public can turn…
At 11.00am on Remembrance Sunday Dover men, women and children gathered at the People of Dover’s War Memorial to honour the memory of all the service men and women who gave their lives in armed conflicts past and present. Over 50 wreaths were laid during the service, covering the memorial in red poppies, as a…
Deepest condolences to the Family of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Boyce KG GCB OBE DL who sadly passed away on the 6th November 2022. Lord Boyce has been of tremendous importance and authority here in Dover as the Lord Warden and Admiral of the Cinque Ports, and Constable of Dover Castle since 2004. An…
At 11.00am on Sunday 13 November 2022, 104 years on from the signing of the Armistice in 1918, Dover will remember all the servicemen and women who have given their lives in the service of their country. A parade of standards, veterans and other organisations will assemble outside the B&M Store in Biggin Street at…