News, Local history and Thanet issues from Michael's Bookshop in Ramsgate see www.michaelsbookshop.com I publish over 200 books about the history of this area click here to look at them.
The picture above shows Albert Brett, Mr Shepard and Bert Toop standing outside Brittons the butchers in Broadstairs where they worked, now Rook’s butchers.
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.
cheers Michael love old butchers shops as I once worked in one
ReplyDeleteChaps in suits on the beach smoking pipes and woodbines, exactly how it should be. Football tops, shorts and sports sandalls of today are so vulgar.
ReplyDeletePleasure Don the older generation locally are getting wise to the fact every time the let me copy some of their pictures I give them a high quality A4 lazar prints of the for free. So I am getting some rather unusual ones at the moment.
ReplyDeleteBertie perhaps there is an unrepealed bylaw or something
Jim Brett was my grandfather, Albert Brett and Rose Brett (Bearman) my Great Grandparents. Haven't seen these photos before. Nice to see them. Thankyou
ReplyDeleteLyn
Hi Michael
ReplyDeleteI am very interested in the photographs that are displayed under the banner: "Pictures of Broadstairs". I have hard copies of the photos showing the Brett family. I am intrigued as to where you got them - is there another family history researched out there that I know nowt about! I have many more photos relating to the Brett and Bearman families and a history to go with them if this is of any interest to you.
Hope hear from you
Ken Brett
kenbrett@westnet.com.au
Sorry KaiHaitch this was in 2009 and I can't remember, not sure if I still have the original photos these mostly come my way when I buy collections of local books
ReplyDeleteHi Lyn
ReplyDeleteI see you are Jim Brett's granddaughter. Jim was my uncle - I am the son of Harry (Henry William) Brett. Would love to communicate with you regarding the Brett and Bearman families. Regards ken Ikenbrett@westnet.com.au).