Another batch of old pictures of Margate click here to look at them I am an still mulling over ideas about what could realistically done to stop the decline and still don’t think much could be achieved without some sort of national legislation to protect out towns.
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Wednesday, 9 April 2008
Old pictures of Margate
Another batch of old pictures of Margate click here to look at them I am an still mulling over ideas about what could realistically done to stop the decline and still don’t think much could be achieved without some sort of national legislation to protect out towns.
4 comments:
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.
Keep on flogging that dead horse Michael.
ReplyDeleteNice pictures though.
Jethro glad you are enjoying the Margate pictures and I will, your thoughts are helpful while I am trying to think up some realistic solutions for our towns. Personally I have managed to give up out of town shopping since early December and today’s weekly supermarket shop, that last year would have gone to Tesco has gone to Iceland, Waitrose and Aldi. Not much but it adds up say £150 per week £7,500 per year £400,000 over a lifetime, every little helps.
ReplyDeleteMichael,
ReplyDeleteI think Jethro has accepted defeat. Keep thinking, if enough of us do so the answer will become a fact. I don't profess to know the answer, but am ready to listen to all views, even the 'wacky'.
We have to move with the times, but not forget our past
Tut. Ken, if I were to "accept defeat", it would be nice to have more than a two minute window within which to do so.
ReplyDeleteBesides, my ire isn't really directed toward Michael, whose establishment has grasped the principles of character, personality and expertise that I have previously mentioned. The problem is many other small businesses, who feel no compunction whatsoever in selling substandard merchandise in mouldering stores and then having the temerity to ask for help from the taxpayer for that dubious privilege.