It is the anniversary of Ramsgate’s worst bombing during WW2 here is the link to the book I produce about it http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/catalogue/id130.htm and some sample pages http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/1940/
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.
Wednesday, 24 August 2011
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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.
Well remembered Michael.
ReplyDeleteI was today talking about the late Stan Edwards of Margate Boys Club.
Stan had been a PTI in Desert Rats.
After very serious illness I moved to Margate in 73 staying at my aunt's Cliftonville hotel. Stan and his wife were taught ballroom dancing by my aunt and uncle. And Stan invited me to train at adult weight training sessions he ran at the Boys club after the yought groups finished of an evening.
Basically he got my balance back again and built me back up from 8 stones and looking like a Belsen victim.
When I won the Welsh over forties masters powerlifting title in 92 I said a silent prayer to that son of Margate. For he had held in check osteoporosis from the drug treatments and without him I would, light of hindsight, have ended up in a scaffold in a wheelchair.
Stan died in 87 and Thanet lost a tall tree. A member of that generation who left their families to defy the bombing, who fought in desert and Europe and emerged victorious. Then not blessed with children the couple dedicated themselves to the service of youth.
The generation who taught me, via Stan, whatever adversity breaks down you can build it back up.
It is good to remember their spirit.
are you planning to promote or go to this Michael? http://blinkmargate.org/
ReplyDelete12.55 I have just done a post promoting it, having young children I won’t get to the event as it is after their bedtime.
ReplyDeleteYou may whish to ask TDC why they are not promoting this event on their website.