Tuesday 4 November 2008

The Hermit of Dumpton Cave

One of the pleasant aspects of publishing local history in the way that I do, printing what I need as I go, is that I don’t have to worry that worry that the book is in any sense saleable.

The book that I am putting the final touches to at the moment is pretty much a case in point, a very scarce Ramsgate item that very few people could possibly want.

Joseph Croom Petit born at Wingham Kent in 1742 he came to Ramsgate in 1820 and lived as a hermit in a cave at the rear of Hollicondane Tavern, on land that now belongs to St Lawrence College.

I have put up a few sample pages click here to read them it’s rather like the type of sermon that one would hope to sleep through.
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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.

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