Click to expand pictures of Margate, Broadstairs and Ramsgate

 

Queen Street Margate 1963 (looking from High St, along the side of boots towards Cecil Sq, council offices and the library now)

 Hippodrome Theatre 1964 Margate

 Harveys Hotel 1967 Margate

Clock Tower Margate

These next three Broadstairs photos are from the book we publish "Ramsgate Illustrated Photographic Views of Ramsgate, Margate and Broadstairs circa 1906"

Broadstairs pictures are difficult to date so three with a known date can help with that.

The rest are of Ramsgate Harbour, probably 1920s and 30s

Ramsgate/work wise the week the schools go back after the summer is usually a very quiet one where I work at Michaels Bookshop, not so this year, we have had a busy week. 

Here is the link to latest arrivals at Michaels Bookshop in Ramsgate 

Click to expand 1972 Margate Guide, some archive Ramsgate pictures

 

Starting with some sample pages from the 1972 Margate holiday guide that I bought yesterday for stock here at Michaels Bookshop in Ramsgate. The 1970s holiday guides are getting quite collectable 

To give you some idea of the value the 1973 one in the same series sold on Ebay recently for about £45 including postage here is the link

Copyright issues mean I can't do a cheap reprint of this one.

Next some Ramsgate pictures from the Tom Stokes collection that I am turning into a paper publication.

I think this is the kiosk at the bottom of the lif to the main sands

This storm looks like a close run thing for flooding the Pavilion.

Here is the link to the latest secondhand books to go out for sale here at Michaels Bookshop where I work in Ramsgate.

Click to expand. A whale ashore at Broadstairs, Old Margate and Ramsgate pictures

These two are of Wanstall's St John St. Margate

Seamans Institute Fort Hill Margate

Link to more info on the 1929 sinking of the Gull Lightship

 It's officially autumn and the schools have probably gone back, something that usually makes it pretty quiet here at Michaels Bookshop where I work in Ramsgate. I imagine that parents are tidying up and recovering so not many people about here in Ramsgate today.

Here is the link to the latest arrivals in the bookshop 

 

Click to enlarge, Ramsgate 1926, Margate and Broadstairs 1949 pictures.

 The first three photos are of when Prince Edward came to Ramsgate to open the Pulhamite rock garden at The Westcliff 

I think this one Must be on Ramsgate Harbour wall the steps being on the side of the clock house

These next ones are from the Mick Twyman collection and I am assuming that this is Dreamland Zoo

This one says Jetty Damage

Zion Place

The opening of the post office

Dreamland advertising

These two are pages from the 1949 Broadstairs guide that we publish

Workwise here at Michaels Bookshop in Ramsgate here is the link to pictures of the books we have just priced and put in the shop window  

The last day of summer today, apparently, anyway I am hoping for an Indian summer. The schools go back on Monday which usually heralds a quiet week in the bookshop.