Any of you got any idea what they are collecting the sand for? Click on the picture to enlarge. Perhaps they are expecting an exceptionally high tide or perhaps preparing sandbags for war defences. As you don’t often see photographs of this sort of thing I would imagine that it relates to some fairly important event. Tea at 2d less than 1p per cup suggests the early 1900s and they do all look very happy with their lot in life so if they are working for the council that also suggests quite a long time ago
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Friday, 11 April 2008
Sandbags at the Royal Victoria Pavilion
Any of you got any idea what they are collecting the sand for? Click on the picture to enlarge. Perhaps they are expecting an exceptionally high tide or perhaps preparing sandbags for war defences. As you don’t often see photographs of this sort of thing I would imagine that it relates to some fairly important event. Tea at 2d less than 1p per cup suggests the early 1900s and they do all look very happy with their lot in life so if they are working for the council that also suggests quite a long time ago
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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.
Not WW1 anti-Zeppelin defences perhaps?
ReplyDeleteZumi the do look rather too happy to be contemplating a raid I thought, nor are there any signs of invasion defences. The main concern during WW1 here was that there would be some sort of German landing.
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