Friday, 13 November 2026

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.













































Wednesday, 11 November 2026

Cockburn's Diary Ramsgate and Westgate during WW1 an WW1 Bomb Map of Ramsgate

 

This is a WW1 bomb map of Ramsgate, so I have done a reading from Cockburn's Diary, which is a book about Ramsgate and Westgate during WW1.



Monday, 9 November 2026

Ramsgate Margate picts and video about Neil Gaiman short stories

 Margate jetty first picture 


Next Ramsgate seafront on the right the building that eventually became Nero's nightclub before it got demolished 


Then a couple of the convent of the assumption in Ramsgate, I'm pretty sure of the second one but not entirely certain correct me if I'm wrong 


Then a couple of Margate Harbour 


Then a couple of tram pictures 


Then a couple of pub pictures


Alexandra Arms Ramsgate began as an 1800s beer house I think it eventually became the blazing donkey st Luke's avenue


The canon inn Ellington place Saint Lawrence


Then a couple of ship pictures the second one the file name says Urchis


Then another tram picture looks like Margate 


Van camping at pegwell I'm pretty sure this is where the Viking ship is located now and I would guess a picture to date from the 1930s 


Then some sort of march past I think this is Ramsgate 


Last but not least. The file name says some of the moody family outside there ashburnham road house




















As you can guess from the rather short or missing picture descriptions it's busy here at Michael's bookshop in Ramsgate and I even had the Thanet local history tick tocker, planet Thanet and other things in making a short film here in the bookshop. I do recommend having a look at her local history tiktoks. Apologies for bad grammar lack of capitalization americanisms I just spoke this whole thing in using my gboard on my phone.



also an experimental AI video