I have added a bit of 'istory for Augusta Stairs, you will have to click on the images compulsively to read the text
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Sunday, 18 May 2014
A few Ramsgate pictures from this morning, Albion House and Augusta Stairs, sketch and photos.
I have added a bit of 'istory for Augusta Stairs, you will have to click on the images compulsively to read the text
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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.
And the tunnels open June 1st these steps lead down to them what a lovely makeover for 1950's utilitarian concrete
ReplyDeleteBarry the tunnels open on Tuesday the 27th May I think
DeleteMichael Duke of Kent party is 27th and official opening is June 1st so says Phil Spain. I'll email the poster
DeleteSorry to be a bit off topic here, did you see small item buried in today's Sunday Times Business News pages? As follows:
ReplyDeleteCluff pilots Manston rescue bid:
Veteran oil baron Algy Cluff is part of a rescue bid for Manston Airport Kent.[Then three lines about recent events] Cluff said he hoped to work alongside Gloag to rescue the airport.
Organiser of the tunnels has approached them to paint tunnels. It certainly got a lot of favourable responses from visitors today all praising the initiative and its better than the 1950's Colditz look.
ReplyDeleteFrom responses eleswhere Peter you seem to be in a very small minority
Oh and this isn't yet finished as there will be more colour added with involvement from local schools
ReplyDeleteThe children love it victor
ReplyDeleteWell touring along Thanet's coastline today I must say neither the closure of Manston or the sunshine have done much to attract the crowds back to Ramsgate's sands whilst, elsewhere, Joss Bay, Stone Bay, Viking Bay and Louisa Bay all had healthy crowds. Up at Westwood X roundabout heading in, four out of five cars are still turning off along Westwood Road for Broadstairs on a sunny Sunday so, just maybe, it wasn't the airport after all. Never mind though because those colourful steps should bring the crowds when they hear about them.
ReplyDeleteInteresting to note that there is an article on Manston runway extension in the newspaper items above. Would it be possible to show that in full? It seems to imply that there were no plans to extend the runway westward. I see that William Rees Davies was MP so that dates the articles to 1957 to 1961 because Henry Brooke was housing minister between those dates.
ReplyDeleteEMBOB the four local papers are available to peruse and print out on microfilm two at Margate Library and two at Ramsgate library, there are no indexes and it takes me about an four hours to do a year of one paper. So 'fraid that is one you will have to do yourself.
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