Monday, 30 June 2008

More Model village and shopping experience

I post with some trepidation as my last post on this subject prompted a senior councillor to comment that he thought Ramsgate was horrible place to shop, not particularly helpful in what are difficult times for town centre shops.

Perhaps some of you have thoughts on the local shopping experience both in the Thanet towns and the miracle that is Westwood Cross, yes of course I can sympathise I don’t imagine that the businesses in the ubiquitously abbreviated WC can be entirely happy with the infrastructure.

Car parking is an issue also raising some problems, free parking experiments for Margate, although not for Ramsgate as one would expect and at WC the shops not exactly teeming when all the parking spaces occupied.

Well enjoy the pictures of the model village

You can also avoid the whole business of shopping and buy our local history books online post free. However personally I consider a good browse in a bookshop a much more gratifying experience.
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 01, 2008 9:33 am

    That's the problem though - especially with you. If I get inside your shop it can be hours before I leave again often carrying a heavy bag of new purchases. All that lovely paper based product is just too tempting for the likes of me (especially the Terry Pratchett section darn you).

    On a more serious note - I intend to reference this post in a "summary" I am working on. Is the other post to which you allude still online? If so a link would be smashing.

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  2. Michael ChildJuly 01, 2008 9:46 am

    Thanks Matt the other post is http://thanetonline.blogspot.com/2008/06/ramsgate-model-village.html

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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.