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A third lot of new pictures have gone up on the great wall of Ramsgate.
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.
one of them looks a bit like the TDC view forward plan of the marina.
ReplyDeleteVery messy and no structure, very much a bunch of amateurs who don't know what they are doing.
A bit like the debacle over the museum...oh and the same names pop up there as well what a suprise
As an occasional visitor to Thanet and Ramsgate in particular, I think the display brightens up what would be a rather drab hoarding. Some of the styles may not be to my taste but its a positive step to getting the public at large to take an interest.
ReplyDeleteNaive in form maybe but at least its not Far Eastern copy art.
Great to see someone in this town reminding us of our former railway and tunnel, though that is horribly inaccurate :-P
ReplyDeleteThe angle of the tunnel mouth is inaccurate and impossible but then, sometimes, aren't we all.
ReplyDeleteI like the pictures. They brighten up the place. They demonstrate that someone cares.
1.36 is this forward plan available so we can see it on the www of do we have to suffer the delights of the award winning Thanet Gateway?
ReplyDeletePat M there always seems to be lots of people enjoying the pictures when I go down there, so yes I am with you on this one.
Rampersand and John, my guess is that the picture is supposed to represent the station in about 1880 based on the loco and long dresses, so if its spot the mistakes, deliberate or not, apart from the bridge being between the bridge supports instead of on top of them, which is just surreal, wrong bandstand, the lift hadn’t been built then, nor had the pavilion.
Having said that I really like this picture and the only thing I really don’t like about it is that the familiar shape of the cliffs at Deal are not right.
As much of the local history is based on local pictures drawn before the invention of the photograph, one can see how mistakes can occur.