Many thanks to trialsanderrors for sending me this picture, click on it to enlarge.
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.
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Margate Jetty in about 1895
Many thanks to trialsanderrors for sending me this picture, click on it to enlarge.
6 comments:
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.
The original photograph is the "Royal Sovereign" at the jetty 1894. This is dated by the colours of the funnel of the "Royal Sovereign" at the time. On the right the walk way leading to cold harbour is open. This was damaged during the storm of 29th November 1897 and never reopend, which is a handy thing to know when dating prints., etc.
ReplyDeleteThis colour format is the one used on boxes of sweets, rock etc., that were sold as gifts at the time. I think the originals carried "a present from Margate".
A more tranquil time? I doubt it times were hard and poverty was rife a few hundred yards from where this photo is taken were the houses that were subject to Margate 'slum clearance' a few decades later.
ReplyDeleteLovely... and a rare detailed image of Margate's camera obscura :)
ReplyDeleteNow if only the Turner would rebuild this :(
Thanks for the linkback, Michael! Tony, the colours on the print might be deceiving. The print is a photochrom, a color lithograph based on a black & white photograph created in Zurich. The lithographers might've had some information on colouring, but mostly they picked whatever they thought looked good... From the number of the print, 10,282, I'm guessing it was published ca. 1896-7, although the photograph might have been taken earlier. Thanks for the background info on the jetty! Still one of my favorite views...
ReplyDeleteNice photo,as an ex lorry driver who has stayed on redenvous car park quite a few times, do any photos exist of the jetty showing the pavillion taken from the rear of the jetty. I have only seen photos taken from land looking out to sea.
ReplyDeleteNice photo,as an ex lorry driver who has stayed on redenvous car park quite a few times, do any photos exist of the jetty showing the pavillion taken from the rear of the jetty. I have only seen photos taken from land looking out to sea.
ReplyDelete