Old Photos, new photos Ramsgate eclipse Turner Contemporary

 

Ramsgate around 1953, this is one of a batch of old Ramsgate photos that I bought very recently over the counter here at Michael's Bookshop in Ramsgate. You can just see a bit of the royal Victoria pavilion, upper left of photo confirming that it is Ramsgate. Right of the photo you can see the decorative crown which I believe was part of the coronation in Illuminations so I guess the date is around 1953. At some point during the day I will try and post it to my Thanetonline blog where the photo should expand better. And of course you know that it isn't AI generated or adjusted because you know who I am and where I am.

Eclipse in Ramsgate

Can you still see properly?

Turner Contemporary yesterday

Broadstairs, quick stop to buy folk week fridge magnet

If you like a little puzzle this photo of Margate was taken in about 1870, before the buildings on the sea side of The High Street and Marine Drive were built, the buildings on the far right are still there.

The other photo is  Marine Palace After Storm 1897.

I am reading the  Michelle Paver series Chronicles of Ancient Darkness

I am listening to the Simone  DeBeauvoir book The Second Sex. I sort of overcame this by a bit of subterfuge that may be useful to you. The book itself and the audiobook are both behind about £20 pay walls however there is a text version on archive, here is the link https://archive.org/stream/1949SimoneDeBeauvoirTheSecondSex/1949_simone-de-beauvoir-the-second-sex_djvu.txt and by downloading @voice aloud reader app it is possible to import the whole book using the URL this is done by tapping on the top left icon in the app.

You then have to scroll down past a load of coding introductions etc to get to the beginning of the book and then the thing will read it aloud to you, keep the place you were at when you close the app so once you've started it by double tapping on the screen you essentially have a free read or listen.

Live temperature at 2pm today see https://www.infoclimat.fr/

Punch and Judy Broadstairs Folk Week

Ramsgate Sands August 1952, do you recognise yourself or anyone else in the photo? Given the dates the children in the photo would be about 80 now. I have just bought the photos over the counter here at Michael’s Bookshop in Ramsgate and was very pleased that they have the date on them. I will also put them on my thanetonline blog where they will probably expand a bit bigger with a bit of clicking etc.

We went to Broadstairs Folk Week yesterday so I will also try to put a video from that here, I don't know how that will work out.

I also added a couple of Margate Punch and Judy photos while I was waiting for the video to post. and a broadstairs one from 2019

On to a camera post this is a comparison between my small camera my wife’s mobile phone and my mobile phone

All set on auto and a fair amount of zoom

All the photos were taken from the garden of the Royal Albion Hotel Broadstairs.about 3/4 into the sun

So starting with the camera this is a Panasonic DC-TZ 95 this came out in February 2019 so it's a bit of an antique. It's a fairly difficult camera to use and is smothered in buttons that it is very easy to touch by accident.

The next two taken with my phone a Samsung S22 Ultra a 2022 phone

And these ones taken with my wife's Samsung S24 Ultra