Speaking to a friend last night in Chambers about legends of folkestone1 a Facebook group he has set up. Hoping to swap some info with my Folkestone history section... Over 1000 members, nice, and some interesting sounding events:
Events:
Darth Vader visiting Folkestone in about 1984
The Shepway Air Show (RIP)
The Fokestone Carnival
The Donkey Derby
The Sunday Market
Xmas lights being switched on by c-list celebs
The Leas Disco for school kids
Jimi Hendrix playing Folkestone
Cliff Richard playing at Boots (The Odeon Bar)
Sealink (The Hengist) ferry washed ashore
Transvision Vamp at The Leas Cliff Hall
The Great Earthquake of 2007
The Great Hurricane of 1987
The Boxing Day Dip
The Debenhams Shooting of 1988/1989
McDonalds opening in town..wow!
Shepway Sound local radio station
Darling Buds Of May being filmed at the harbour/sands
Moon & Son being filmed in town
The looney on the roof of the Bus Station
The spontaneus human combustion2 in a bakery on Canterbury Road
The Dance Of The Flaming Arsehole / The Tequila Run
The Rotary Club Santa going around the streets at Xmas
The Orient Express dropping punters off at the harbour
The Tour De France coming to Folkestone
2.4 Children being filmed in and around town
Folkestone Invicta Vs West Ham in 1996 (Lampard was there apparently!)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the Rotunda
This is part of my site The Folkestone Gerald that I set up in a fury of excitement when I first came here sometime in 2004. I had been a frequent visitor for a while previous to that but I am technically one of those DFLs you get nowadays. This site was updated more frequently with a calendar of events and voting for favourite places + things, and I hear it was a handy resource for others who were moving to the area. Now I've moved out of Folkestone again (though only a couple of miles) it doesn't get as much attention as it used to. Ironic really as Folkestone itself is now becoming the exciting place we knew it was about to become. I am not Gerald BTW, this comes from the name of a pretend paper in an episode of Brasseye or something, the Portsmouth Gerald, + how there is a local newspaper here called the Folkestone Herald. Puns like this are GRATE aren't they? Do contact me if you have something to offer, email anythign @ this domain, or try @folkestone or @pauly on Twitter.