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As you can see from the picture the chaps laying the pipe for the Pleasurama developments roof rainwater drainage along Harbour Parade have run into some well-dressed masonry.
From its position relative to the obelisk and older buildings this appears to be a continuation of the harbour wall running behind the stone yard where the pavilion now stands.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.
As someone who enjoys the photos of your morning walkabouts and the old views of Ramsgate. I noticed your recent digital photos are showing a date / time tag of February 2006 which might lead to confusion for future generations if the photos get detached from the original post.
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I'm not surprised to see that it was so well built, there wasn't quick drying concrete of Tarmac around in those days.
ReplyDeleteIs the roof garden still part of the design for the flats? If it is then perhaps they should be harvesting the rain water & pumping it back up to the roof.
If the garden is no longer on the drawing board, wouldn't it have been easy to lay the drain from the far end of the development under the kiosk into the sea?
Frank Batt
Thats an impressive piece of masonry down that hole Michael, I was in Ramsgate today so took a look at it. The man with the concrete breaker asked if I'd heard about it from Michael at the bookshop! All very amiable about it I hasten to add.
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