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Thursday 24 May 2012
Day orf ramble
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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.
Strange Peter, I know at some time around 1990 the level of the sand was also higher than it is now, pretty much up to the promenade, I think this is just a case of the sand shifts.
ReplyDeleteI know back in the late 60s when Ramsgate Main Sands were at their largest there was some talk that the Goodwin Sands were shifting this way and The Isle of Thanet would become landlocked in a sea of sand.
Interesting with Ramsgate the accumulation of sand that protected the promenade area in the great storm of 1953 was removed for construing Port Ramsgate, with rising sea levels we my come to regret this action.