Continuing the First Word War theme here is another publication that may interest some of you. Mr Cockburn, as you will find out if you click here and read part of the book, lived with his family in Ramsgate and worked as the secretary for Westgate gas and water works. He was responsible for the administrative side of the company, the management of essential services has to go on even when a country is at war so he stayed in Thanet for the duration of World War One and didn't go off to fight in the trenches.
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Sunday, 9 March 2008
COCKBURN’S DIARY RAMSGATE LIFE IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Continuing the First Word War theme here is another publication that may interest some of you. Mr Cockburn, as you will find out if you click here and read part of the book, lived with his family in Ramsgate and worked as the secretary for Westgate gas and water works. He was responsible for the administrative side of the company, the management of essential services has to go on even when a country is at war so he stayed in Thanet for the duration of World War One and didn't go off to fight in the trenches.
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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.
It is a splendid book which I thoroughly enjoyed and recommend.
ReplyDeleteA must for Family Historians, this is one of the best Ramsgate books. It really makes you appreciate what your great grandparents etc lived through. Fabulous read.
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