Next some of the Ramsgate pages from the guide.
Now at this time – oh sorry the wars – Waterloo, Trafalgar
type of kidney spanned the period from 1800 to 1815, Ramsgate was supposed to
be a military embarkation town. I am pretty sure I read somewhere that the area
where Wellington Crescent was eventually built in from around 1820 and up on
the westcliff where about 60 years later Vincent Van Gogh would eventually
sketch the Churchill Tavern; was covered with tents.
I am also pretty sure that the Ramsgate Clifftop buildings
that date for this period were built to rent out to officers, “can’t go anywhere
without my, horses, servants, don’t you know”
Reading the guide I can only assume that this military
centred, marry off your daughters social whirl was what they meant by the
season.
However no mention of the war in the guide.
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