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The Ramsgate Society has received a grant from KCC to put up blue plaques on buildings in the town to commemorate their association with famous people.
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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ReplyDeleteIs there a Van Gogh plaque in Spencer Square?
Is there a Queen Victoria plaque on Townley House or perhaps on Eastcliff Lodge?
Should there be a Charles Dickens one somewhere?
Should there be/Is there a Sir Moses Montefiore one somewhere?
I seem to recall Jane Austen may have stayed in Ramsgate at some point too.
Oh, and how about a Julio Iglesias one next to the entrance to the late Regency Hotel...?
I lived in Ramsgate once will I get a plaque commemorating the fact?
ReplyDeleteThere will have to be a Jimmy Godden and a Frank Thorley somewhere !!
ReplyDeleteOr another alternative series of plaques entitled "Buildings or pieces of land left to rot by Thanet District Council" There are so many the funding would not last long!
ReplyDeleteJimmy's plaque better be made of asbestos
ReplyDeletehattie jaques lived in grange road
ReplyDelete17.04 did she live in the wide part or on the roundabout?
ReplyDeletesomewhere between the corner of vale rd and the deville
ReplyDeleteJohn Le Mesurier lived in ramsgate
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ReplyDeleteNothing to do with Plaques but does anyone know what is happening to the maritime museum building.
ReplyDeleteI asked TDC and they refused to give me any information
11.40 I am on to it again, it is pretty hard to imagine that TDC would want to obstruct keeping the museum open but it does seem like that.
ReplyDeleteFrom what i heard tdc withdrew funding from the old museum trust who then paid the steam museum trust someing in the region of £200K and transferred all the exhibits to them. tdc then said they would support the steam museum trust and give them the clock house for 100 years all seems to be a bit like double dutch to me, or i suppose one could say typical tdc.
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