Friday, 19 November 2010

Another Old Picture of Margate

Many thanks to Andy who has sent me another old Margate picture click on it to enlarge it.

I think what we are looking at here is the back of the buildings in the High Street, below are some pictures of pictures in Margate Museum to help work out where you are.


Looking through my computer for pictures of old Margate I came across these ones, I don’t think I have put them on the web before, am pretty sure I got them from Tony Beachcomber but seem to have lost the text document that should go with them, here is the link http://www.thanetonline.com/1110/id3.htm
I suppose I really must do a book of old photos of Margate as I have done plenty of Ramsgate ones.



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5 comments:

  1. UnknownNovember 19, 2010 5:04 pm

    Fascinating photo Michael as it#s predates marine Drive and you can see that the sea comes up to where Primark is now!

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  2. Michael ChildNovember 19, 2010 5:42 pm

    Simon if you have a copy of The Book of Margate you will find that there is a map of Margate at about this time, printed on the front endpaper, I have just remembered and looked at mine. It looks as though the sea came up to about halfway through where Primark is now. I will scan mine and put it on the web in the morning.

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  3. AnonymousNovember 20, 2010 2:22 pm

    The first picture with the bathing machines and sailing boat is titled Margate from "Hazardous Row" it saw drawn by J Laport and engraved by J C Stadler and published by P Burgef's library in Ramsgate in 1809 I am lucky to have a very early copy that has been colourised

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  4. MANovember 21, 2010 6:58 pm

    Great photo, Michael. Can I link to it on Margate Architecture?

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  5. Michael ChildNovember 21, 2010 6:59 pm

    Help yourself MA

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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.