Today in the bookshop has been a mixture of catching up
difficult bits of paperwork and in between diving into local history.
Anyway during the Napoleonic Wars which went on roughly from
1800 to 1815 – in books this is Sharpe – Hornblower country and in Ramsgate
this is the when and why of a lot of our buildings.
Ramsgate you see was an officer training town with a parade
ground where Wellington Crescent would be built between about 1820 and 1830. a
lot of the more salubrious but slightly older buildings along the Nelson Sion
Albion bit – look at the picture, well they were mostly built to rent out to
officers in training. At that time a gentleman often travelled fairly heavy –
wife, children, servants, horses, type of wosisname.
Around all of this developed a social life, marry off your
daughters to eligible young officers and so on, all par top the development of
a seaside holiday resort.
This is from the 1809 guide that I publish a cheap reprint
of, see http://michaelsbookshop.com/catalogue/id322.htm
as far as books that went out, here is Saturday's lot http://michaelsbookshop.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/storm-front-in-bookshop.html
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