Ho ho, just read this spoof story1 about Dickens World2
A new 62 million theme park is being built in Chatham Maritime in Kent on a Dickensian theme in the hope of attracting foreign visitors in the same way that Fawlty Towers drew tourists into the Torquay area in the 1980's.
Visitors will be greeted by slack-jawed pickpockets and opium addicted whores and that's just the Folkestone ferry-port.
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The story above is a satire or parody. It is entirely fictitious.
Apart from Folkestone not having a working ferry port right now, I'm not so sure...
Did you come here looking for a spoof story3? For more spoof stories4 I recommend newsbiscuit.com5.
This is part of my site The 'Gerald that I built in a fury of excitement when we first moved to Folkestone in approximately 2004. I had been a frequent visitor for a while before that but I am technically one of those DFLs you get now. The site was updated more frequently with a calendar of events and voting for best venues + things, and I know it was a useful reference for those who were thinking of moving here. Now I've moved out of Folkestone again (though just to Hythe) it doesn't get as much love as it used to. Ironic really as The town is becoming the exciting place we always thought it was just about to. My name is not Gerald by the way, this comes from a fake paper in an episode of The Day Today or something, the Portsmouth Gerald, + how there is a local newspaper here called the Folkestone Herald. Puns like this are great aren't they? Do contact me if you have something to contribute, email anythign @ this domain, or try @folkestone or @pauly on Twitter.