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TDC have applied for planning permission to make most of Albion House into residential accommodation, to view the plans you have to put the application numbers F/TH/08/1376 and L/TH/08/1377 into the search box on the TDC planning website click here to go there.
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.
In the 80s I did a contract putting TV distribution systems on Canterbury council housing.
ReplyDeleteIt seemed to me that Canterbury did a good job of using historical buildings as council flats.
One was a former garrison colonel's house. Another mansion type building had been an SOE comms centre in WW2.
From the outside these buildings looked entirely preserved at original spec.
I thought it was an excellent compromise.
A real shame that the original features of the building have been obliterated. It looks really ugly now. Does anyone know - was it TDC which did this during their occupancy or does it go back further? What is the history of the building?
ReplyDeleteWould be great for that whole block to be restored with balconies replaced and perhaps even the the bombed out space to be rebuilt and bring them back to their original splendor.
ReplyDeleteThe grandparents lived further round that terrace and it was lovely with high ceilings and large rooms.
(It would also be nice to obliterate the old offices of a former employer !!)