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Posted by John Dixon on July 27, 2007, 12:30 pm Dick Brown's well-known Sandwich emporium has long gone; a very good but short-lived tobacconist a few yards round the corner from Canterbury Cathedral appeared about a decade ago but disappeared within a few years; Robey's of Folkestone (established 1932) closed down at least 3 years ago. I heard there was a good tobacconist in the Margate/Ramsgate area, but did not note the address, and now cannot find online the address of any retail tobacconist in East Kent. All I know in my local Dover area is newsagents who stock at the most 3 brands of well-known pipe tobacco, and usually have no pipes. Yes, of course I can shop online, but I crave the surroundings of a good tobacconist. Long gone also is the wonderful Nathan's Pipe Shop in Richmond, where I often went when living in London. Eric Morecambe used to buy his coffee-flavoured tobacco from Nathan, the cheerful little proprietor, always perched behind his raised counter, always smoking a pipeful of his own black cavendish mixture. The counter had a bunsen-burner type flame permanently alight (you could lift the thing up to light your pipe, it wasn't just for cigars, and never has a pipeful been got going so easily as by this method), for the benefit of customers. In front of the counter was a comfortable chair, where you could recline and engage Nathan in conversation, which always flowed as widely and easily as the Mississipi. But I digress...where's that elusive pipe shop? Have they all gone to the great collective pipe and tobacco emporium in the sky?
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With the tragic demise of so many good tobacconists, I'm sure this request will give rise to some cynical laughs, but here goes: does anyone know of any decent (or even half-decent) tobacconists in East Kent?
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