My day off today but we didn’t get out until after lunch
when we went to Deal to buy some books, the café on the end of Deal Pier is
relatively new, about four years I think and although I have used the old one
in the past, this was my first visit to the new one.
Pot of tea and a very large chunk of shortbread was about
£3.50 I think, all good quality and a useful place to sketch when it is too
cold outside.
The sketch is done with a grade B 0.5mm propelling pencil
any sketching errors erased with a propelling rubber, a very useful item for
sketching out and about as the rubber part doesn’t get dirty in the pocket.
With so many buildings now painted magnolia, it is useful to have Naples Yellow
in your palette.
Here are the photos from my phone https://plus.google.com/photos/103118335852639233427/albums/5865653757559748817?banner=pwa
I guess with it being so close to Thanet, there is a
sense the Thanet town centres could have survived better in the way that Deal
has.
Deal is a town that seems to have weathered the problems of
modern town centres better than most. There seem to be more independent shops
than most small towns in the area.
There are only a few empty shops and still a larger
proportion of independent shops selling real products than most town centres.
Frankly Peter it’s an appalling reflection on our society that the proximity of large supermarkets and out of town shopping centres destroy our towns.
ReplyDeleteYou feel there ought to be a way that we can have both
Peter we had a largish Tesco in Ramsgate, with an associated multi-storey car park, it was responsible for the closure of a lot independents, the Manston Tesco was built on the understanding that they kept the Ramsgate Tesco open, but of course they closed it causing further damage to the town.
ReplyDeleteI think part of the problem is that some of the supermarkets play a sort of cat and mouse game with towns.
I guess I don’t really know what the solution is, but do my best to do as much of my shopping as I can in Ramsgate.