Thursday, 28 April 2016

A few Ramsgate adverts for 1934, a quick sketch of Herne Bay Clock Tower








The adverts are from the Ramsgate Guide for 1934, I publish a reprint of this guide so you can come into my bookshop and look at it if you want.

Anyway the reason for publishing them here is that having posted two old East Kent Critics, yesterday and the day before I was surprised at the amount of Thanet and East Kent bookshops advertising in them. I was tentatively leafing though old Thanet publications vaguely wondering if I should be a bit more proactive on the bookshop advertising front when I came across the one above for Blinko’s Bookshop. Anyone got the foggiest idea why a small bookshop in Ramsgate would need a bible warehouse, I know it was the mid 30s and the time of the depression, and yes I have seen Paper Moon, but even so. Perhaps I should generate some adverts with outlandish claims, although I suppose the advertising standards agency could give me some problems.


The Herne Bay sketch is a very quick one, about half an hour as most of my day off was spent out buying books for my bookshop.
 here is the picture for any art critics 
A bit more from the 1934 guide










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1 comment:

  1. Don WoodApril 29, 2016 9:53 am

    The book looks great, I love old adverts. You are advertising on the web, you used to put your visitor figures on here but newspapers and other adverts have no way of recording people who have seen them. Twitter Facebook and blogging are so 21st century

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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.