One way and another I am rather busy at the moment as I am
in the process of moving all of my book printing equipment into a different
part of the building. I have also finally bitten the bullet and bought a 42
inch colour printer that prints on canvas and paper, this is mainly so I can
print reproductions of old sheet maps of this area.
The local book publishing that I do has reached the point
where I now have about 150 of them in print, see http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/catalogue/
and as this has expanded I have fitted the equipment into different parts of
the building, something which is very difficult with printers. I reached the
point where the book I was editing was coming out of a printer at the other end
of my bookshop, about 70 feet away from the till desk where I was working,
while the street directories that I was using to check local peoples names were
in a different part of the building altogether.
Anyway while I am sorting all of this out, during what is a
wet week, I am not getting out and about, so don’t really have that much to
blog about.
With three fairly large new publications recently, two on
local maritime history A History of Ramsgate Harbour and Guide To Its Existing
Features and A History of the Ramsgate Fishing Industry, plus the one on the
Granville, The Granville Hotel - The Story of the Granville Hotel Ramsgate 1869-2012,
plus several more in the pipeline, I am hoping that the improvement will make things
run a bit more smoothly.
The net result of this should be that it is easier for me to
produce more local books, so if you have been researching some aspect of Thanet’s
history I can probably help you get it into book form.
Is that picture the Whitfield tower?, I remember it falling down in the 70's
ReplyDeleteDon’t think so this is Whitfield Tower in 1831 http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/blogpicts/id70.htm from the book I publish http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/catalogue/the_picturesque_pocket_companion_to_margate_ramsgate_broadstairs___parts_adjacen.htm
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