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Thursday 11 April 2013
A quick sketch from Deal Pier a few photos of Deal in The County of Kent, possibly a day off ramble if I get time.
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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.
Deal is a long way from any big out of town superstores as far as I'm aware, so that probably makes a big difference.
ReplyDeleteFrankly Peter it’s an appalling reflection on our society that the proximity of large supermarkets and out of town shopping centres destroy our towns.
DeleteYou feel there ought to be a way that we can have both
Well one way is to bring the large supermarkets TO the towns, but when that happens you get a minority doing their best to delay / stop things (ie Tesco at Arlington)... so instead people shop at Westwood Cross!
DeleteDeal of course has several large supermarkets, and not only are they near the train station - they're actually in the station car park! Proof that this is the best way forward.
DeletePeter 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.
DeleteI 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.