Margate and Ramsgate pictures with Gruffalo books video

 Starting with the Corner of Hardres Street and High Street Ramsgate

Then the lifeboat slipway in Margate I think this is a picture of it under construction.

Then Outside Southwood Tavern Southwood Road around 1900, well it looks like ladies taking a ride under military escort in a horse drawn wagonette. The young girl front middle is identified as Florence Moody, whose granddaughter Doris May Dimond found this postcard in her mother's loft. 

Then the Red Lion in Ramsgate probably about 1900 

Then the ship in Margate Harbour looks like it says Verity or Variety on it. Possibly a collier. 

Then the sailing ship engraving it's in one of the local collections so I thought I'd include it

Then Centricity and I think this is at the bottom of Margate slipway. 

Then Milton Square 

Then the Pier Hotel 

Then a paddle steamer I'm not sure which one hopefully someone will tell us

Finally the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic church gather around St Augustine's Cross, Ramsgate in 1897 to celebrate saint Augustine landing in 597 AD

I'm sorry if I've posted some of these before I just can't remember.

Next a thank you to people who bring photos here to Michael's Bookshop in Ramsgate either for me to copy them or for me to buy the photos from them.

Old Thanet Pictures and experimental video

 The first one the file says Marina Gardens so this is the beer gardens roughly outside where Nero's was in Ramsgate

The next one by the harbour in Margate from the clothing around 1900

The next one The old six bells in st Laurence I think that was near to ashburnham road 

The next one Margate sands from the clothing I am guessing 1950s 

The next one I think it's a newspaper clipping and about the Viking ship 

The next one is manston road level crossing 

The next one is digging out the site for the winter garden's 

The next one is Zion place which they seem to have spelt wrong on the front of the card looking at the clothing particularly the hats I'm guessing 1920s 

The next one a newspaper clipping of st Lawrence high street sorry someone seemed to clipped a bit too much 

The next one Margate Harbour interestingly this is at low tide and it obviously being dregged quite a bit by the harbour wall but I know idea of the date 

The next one says something like around the world in a skiff and seems to be dated 1911 and I think oh yes it says Margate on it 

The next one is high streets and Lawrence and the advantage of it being a newspaper cracking is that you can be sure of the date 

And the last one is a tram I should know the location but maybe Westgate or Westbrook

Finally a thought here about old people and mobile phones. Working here in Michael's Bookshop in Ramsgate a lot of my customers, particularly the customers who buy Thanet local history books have got themselves into a bit of a tangle when it comes to IT.

The main problem is they either haven't got or haven't learned to use their smartphone and then at some point in their 80s they realize that they are going to get several more years of usable life if they can do things like point the smartphone at the page of a physical book and get the smartphone to read it to them. Or of course they get to the point where their hands won't type anymore and of course with the smartphone they can do what I'm doing now which is reading it into my smartphone and this text is being typed out on the computer in front of me. And of course if they've got to old to learn to do these things then they are snookered.

Old Thanet picts video about the book Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

So the first one is King Street Ramsgate and this is where Boots is now. Cinque Ports pub on the left. This was all demolished to make way for Boots in the 60s or 70s I think. 

Next one Margate Tudor house 

Next one st Catherine's hospital Ramsgate High Street. 

Then another one of the same hospital. 

Then marine drive in Margate.

The harbour restaurant in Margate. Note the sailors retreat lookout slightly left of Centre. 

Then Pearks store in Margate. 

Then the white heart hotel Margate. 

I think this next one is Margate but I can't remember where it is. 

Another Tudor House one. 

Arcade in Margate. 

Then the Roman columns from Reculver

Followed by a picture of the explanatory text

Then The sportsman Inn

Then the Ramsgate one that says Canterbury road Mews 

Then Ramsgate Westcliff with snow. 

It's been a very busy morning here at Michael's bookshop in Ramsgate. Mostly local history enquiries which take a long time to sort out so I have got a bit behind with the post and not researched some of the photos properly. I'm afraid you'll have to do your best with what you've got.

Thanet pictures

 Sorry the descriptions have all gone up backwards.

Some old Thanet pictures today. Before I start with the descriptions you will have to excuse me. It is busy, being market day, here in Michael's Bookshop in Ramsgate and I have just changed my smartphone, which does nearly all the work in posting to Facebook, for a new second hand and more complicated one. 

The first picture is a carnival float and I think Ramsgate and I assume 1950s.

The second one is the children's corner at Ramsgate marina, this is adjacent to where Nero’s was. I think this was early in the 1950s 

Next one Ramsgate Sands and on the right you can see through the station.

The next one is looking towards Merrie England in Ramsgate. 

Ramsgate you can see the Marine Theatre in the middle Ramsgate Pier on the right and I can't really understand what the hoardings are on the left.

Then the one that says Ramsgate Parade, your guess is as good as mine. 

This is Coleman's yard off Queen Street opposite Leopold Street and I think I'd posted it before sorry about that. 

The Margate ones come from the Mick Twyman collection and some of them I really can't understand why they're there. 

The first one looks like a world war two military vehicle, possibly a Bedford OX, I don't understand why it's in the collection about Margate unless it's actually in Margate which it probably is. 

The next, one the building of a ceremonial arch. I think this is Margate High Street. Correct me if I am wrong. 

The next one another ceremonial arch probably Margate High Street again I assume the EKMR stands for Royal East Kent Mounted rifles.

The loading of the barges I don't understand, I don't think it’s Thanet

The next one is Vye and Son Station road Westgate. 

The next one and unknown barge probably in Margate. 

This one says Tank (Active) on the file name I suppose it could be in Margate but it seems unlikely. 

The one that says Dolby square on it is of course all be square.