I think these two pictures click here to view were taken in the 1970s many thanks to Mr Holborn for letting me copy them.
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008
Ramsgate Model Village
I think these two pictures click here to view were taken in the 1970s many thanks to Mr Holborn for letting me copy them.
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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.
takes me back my neighbour has one of them in his back garden
ReplyDeleteI remember visiting this as a birthday invite in 1971 when a friend of was 6...as was I. We also visited a helter skelter that ended in a large polished wooden bowl at the bottom. Where was that in Ramsgate? Any idea?
ReplyDeleteAt one time it was near the base of the cliff under one of the clowns and then it was moved near the entrance to the railway tunnel,i think it was destroed in a storm but i might be wrong on that.
ReplyDelete17.48 Do you have any pictures of it there, destroyed in a storm seems likely.
ReplyDelete17.10 The Helter Skelter with the wooden bowl at the bottom was part of the Pleasurama fair on the land between the old railway station converted to amusements and Augusta Steps. When the girls arrived in the bowl at the bottom the resultant spin caused some fine displays of leg, 1971 sounds about right.
Micheal
ReplyDeleteI believe that the models are now in the grounds of Salmestone Grange, sadly in a state of some disrepair
I remember taking my daughter there , but I have to say it was a bit 'unloved' and we left quickly to get some ice cream at the nearby cafe
ReplyDeleteSome of the model village properties are at Salmastone Grange, some went into private hands but quite a few went to Bekonscot Historic Model Village in Buckinghamshire website www.bekonscot.co.uk where several houses were to be fully restored they may have all been finished and on display by now.
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