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Ben and
Janet Dunk have retired from antique restoration and conservation work.
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So ends a lifetime of work. |
| Contact Ben Dunk via
email dunkantix@yahoo.com |
| Still you may enjoy |
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The
Prose & Poetry of Ben Dunk In the early 1970s, when the first Punks raged against the machine of the English Rock Empire, in between the sets of loud discordant rock n roll, Ben Dunk read his poems of grace and beauty to the crowd of proto-punks. |
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So Many Secrets by Ben Dunk
(opens in new website) A Memoir of WWII England Imagine growing up on the country estate next to where the British Spitfire was designed and built. That is Ben Dunk's incredible story of his youth. |
| Read the review
of So Many Secrets from The Observer Series, Thursday, July 26, 2012 Chichester, England. |
all original material herein © Ben Dunk & year of publication original photography © Benjamin Dunk, Jr. 2011 clipart courtesy of Microsoft Corp. web design by Eyepiece, inc. Torrance, CA |
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The Observer, Unicorn House, 8 Eastgate
Square, Chichester PO19 1JN The Observer Series, Thursday, July 26, 2012 |
| Secrets of West Dean Estate’s past revealed |
| For anyone interested in the history of the West Dean Estate, a
visit to the website www.dunkantix.com will provide a source of
fascination. In the ‘So Many Secrets’ section of the website are the
memoirs of Ben Dunk, a former local man who has lived in South
California for the past 33 years but has still many fond memories of the
Observer area, especially West Dean house, park and estate. Mr. Dunk was
well known in Chichester during the 1950s, 60s and early 70s. He founded
the Chichester Promoter and later The City Pilot, was press secretary
for Chichester Rotary Club for eight years and also the Chichester
branch of The British Heart Foundation. |
| So Many Secrets offers an intriguing and very detailed glimpse into the past at West Dean house and estate, owner Edward James, famous visitors and the people who lived and worked there. The memoirs are an ongoing production, constantly being updated and having items added. One of the supplements at the end is particularly geared to information for second world war researchers, with Mr. Dunk attempting to give locations of all the crashed aircraft and ‘buzz bombs’ which occured in and around the West Dean Estate. |