Ramsgate Margate pictures

Vye and son lorry 

Tanners bazaar I think this was marine terrace Margate 

Ramsgate Harbour before the road alterations I think the fishing smack on the right is from Reykjavik, Iceland. Note how narrow it is by the pub.

An early photo of Jacob's Ladder, note the sailors church has not been built yet.

I think this is Foads lane and Cliffsend

The London Stores that is King Street Ramsgate 

Margate the pier before 1978 

Not sure what the sailing boat is 

The Royal Oak in Margate 

The Sea Bathing Hospital chapel Margate 

The Thames steamer 1815 which is the date that steamboats first made it to Margate they didn't get to Ramsgate as they were wary of trying to sail around North Foreland in such a primitive craft. These early steamboats were liable to explode, adding interest to the journey. 

And the last one is Margate Harbor pier in 1953 after the tidal surge storm demolished the lighthouse. 

For further local history research I recommend coming here to Michael's Bookshop in Ramsgate where we have not only the books we publish but quite a lot of secondhand local history books from the Ramsgate millennium book down to local history books from about £2.

Please excuse the any errors as I am doing this between customers

 

inside Ramsgate Maritime museum in 2010 and Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe video

 Inside Ramsgate maritime museum in 2010. This is the first quarter of the pictures I took then if there is some interest in this post I will do a post with some more of the pictures in it. The main reason that I took the pictures was to record what was in the museum in case anything subsequently vanished. I used to visit the museum quite a lot as they sold some of the local books that we publish here at Michael's Bookshop. This expanded into them giving me permission to publish the books that they had produced in the past and subsequently run out of and couldn't afford to reprint.