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Sunday, 8 February 2015
Ramsgate Harbour, down among the arches
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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.
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If only Everitt and Poole of Old Labour hadn't closed the Port and Pleasurama eh Michael? Or is this another of your successes?
ReplyDeletePerhaps in another 15 years they'll get the streets swept for just a few million quid?
|Anon 8.46 you seem to be confused, the port is not closed its just that the major ferry operator went bust despite efforts of the then conservative led council to suspend payments due and then the labour led council that inherited this position. Apart from the conservative led council putting a charge on the ships when this first happened to mitigate losses there was nothing the council could do to stop the company going bust. If a ferry service using more fuel efficient ships was viable then maybe a new service would have started.
ReplyDeleteThe history of Pleasurama is well documented and mistakes were made all those years ago again by both political parties in first dealing with an unaccountable offshore company and then again when the terms were renegotiated.
Farage busy campaigning ...in Rotherham.
ReplyDeleteThanet will be an irrelevance to him.
As with Sandys: elected then disappears or silent.
And has he really allowed Neil Hamilton cash for questions to be Chairman of UKIP? Why?
We parked outside the cafe when taking pictures of the Harbour Light display one evening before Christmas. I love Ramsgate Harbour it is Royal
ReplyDeleteI still can't understand why TDC agreed that the ferry company they had to pay nothing. One month they were paying £150 K a month and then nothing, the ferry company were still collecting all the revenue from ticket sales. Probably as well our erstwhile chief bean counter has gone.
ReplyDeleteMANY YEARS AGO boots THE CHEMIST WAS ON THIS SITE IN THE 1940S
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