Some Ramsgate and Broadstairs pictures and some of Sarre
Mill, not strictly Thanet but something local I have watched go though through
the process of dilapidation, restoration and now back again.
This is Ramsgate today
and this I suppose 100 years ago, give or take
I think these pictures date from 2011
From the perspective of a secondhand bookseller – which in
my case can be thought of as a book collector where book collecting got out of
hand – and a collector of books relating to East Kent topography, you can tell
a lot about other book collectors by how they say things.
Mispronunciation is something I often see as a good sign in
people, as it generally means they have read the word but not heard it, so if
you collect topography books do you say bi-decker or bay-decker.
One of Karl Ludwig Johannes Baedeker aspirants was George
Washington Bacon, who having gone bust in the US of A became a successful mapmaker
in London, but his guidebook to England and Wales isn’t very common.
Not good pictures, I will try harder another time, the
Kent bit is – as you see too short.
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