White Cliffs of Dover
About White Cliffs of Dover
The White Cliffs of Dover are the region of English coastline facing the Strait of Dover and France. The cliff face, which reaches a height of 350 feet (110 m), owes its striking appearance to its composition of chalk accented by streaks of black flint, deposited during the Late Cretaceous. The cliffs, on both sides of the town of Dover in Kent, stretch for eight miles (13 km). The White Cliffs of Dover form part of the North Downs. The cliffs are part of the Dover to Kingsdown Cliffs Site of Special Scientific Interest and Special Area of Conservation. The top of the cliffs hosts a chalk grassland ecosystem with an abundance of bird, flower, and butterfly species.
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This is in a bit... Croydon is a bit of London, we should say. In Croydon, there is a bit called Riddles Down, which is home to a disused trawl quarry. If you look at it from the right angle, it looks exactly like the White Cliffs of Dover. Sorry, from a right angle or from... If you look at right angles, which is the right angle. This, and in fact quite a lot of my research, it comes from a new book which is called Croydonopolis by Will Noble.
from No Such Thing As Catherine Of Croydon, 2024-10-31 at 00:01:33 · read transcript
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Antique barometers. This was a tiny amount of mercury. Nigel, you have lost the plot a bit here and I think we should emphasise that mercury can be very dangerous if you smash one of those flimsy barometers. If anyone agrees with Andy then there will be a rally at the White Cliffs of Dover. Bring your old barometer. We'll all together smash the barometers and drink the mercury and prove.
369: No Such Thing As Quartz For The Courts, 2021-04-16 · listen
What am I talking about? Sorry. It's 17 tons of chalk that is used. 17,000, very sorry. What a penis that would be. The White Cliffs of Dover are no more. He's saying Abbess Giant survives. Yeah, every 25 years except for when there's problems. They had to give him a nose job at one point because erosion had been too unkind on him. Maybe he was just trying to defoam a beer.
321: No Such Thing As A Frothy Beer, 2020-05-15 · listen
This was a tiny amount of mercury. Oh, my God. Nigel, you are, you have lost the plot a bit here, and I think we should emphasize that mercury can be very dangerous if you smash one of those flimsy thermometers. If anyone agrees with Andy, then there will be a rally at the White Cliffs of Dover. Bring your own barometer. We'll all together smash the barometer. Robert's and drink the mercury and prove.
No Such Thing As Quartz For The Courts, 2021-04-16 · listen
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