You know how it is when the zealous missionary type turns up
and wants to convert you into some sect or some other sect. Personally I’m an
Anglican, but when it comes to spreading the word I don’t really go further
than having a “Mind Body and Spirit” section in the bookshop.
I can for instance sell you a King James Bible, or a book to
help you improve your Wicca. Many years ago while working for a chain of
religious booksellers I got a severe ticking of for ordering “Teach Yourself
Astrology” (on their banned book list) which is a tricky area. click here and read the quote in today's bookshop post to see what I mean
Back in the day the Teach Yourself and Made Simple series
were so popular that customers would ask. “Where’s you make yourself simple
books, and shop assistants like me would know exactly what they meant.
But this being a local history “East Kent” blog post we are
going back to 1893 and as this is Missions to Seamen stuff based in the town of Deal, which is the
place you can see from Ramsgate cliff top to the far right.
Rev Thomas Stanley Treanor was the local sky pilot, this
involved launching and open sailing boat by sliding it down greased planks on
Deal beach and then getting the sail up pdq, apparently he was out more that
300 days a year and as he was mostly ministering to ships sheltering in The
Downs, this must have included the bad weather days.
I have just repaired the sample pages for this book so here
are the links.
the other lot I have just repaired are some snaps from a
couple of short walks in Ramsgate in March 2007, hare is the link to what is
now one webpage with the pictures on it http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/307/
And finally click here for today's snaps
And finally click here for today's snaps
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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.