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Tuesday 9 February 2016
Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday, Pancake Day and an update on the vanishing Ramsgate Sands a ramble.
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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.
The Poundland shop was Vye and Sons 'new' supermarket in the late 60s. I had a summer job there at 14 "filling the butter cabinets" at 1s10d per hour. The bacon cutting room was above the front of the shop and alongside this was a door that led into the old house it had been built into. The stockroom was at the rear and I suspect some of that was turned into shop space when the clothes shop there had an upstairs. Wonder what remains hidden?
ReplyDeletePoundland bought out 99p stores so I guess having 2 stores owned by the same company opposite each other makes little financial sense.
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