This time it’s King Street in Ramsgate from the 1971 street
directory, reprinted with kind permission of Kelly’s Directories as part of my
local history publishing project. For the very keen here is the link to the buy
it now button http://michaelsbookshop.com/catalogue/ramsgate_street_directory_1971.htm
The alternative is to come into the bookshop here in
Ramsgate and have a browse of the inside of the directories, this kind of very
dense information is usually easiest to digest from paper rather than the
screen.
The picture at the top is 67 to 75 in 1903 which by 1971 was the Co Op, the pictures in the post should expand if clicked on.
Just remembered and added this picture from 1968
Folkestone for me today where I bought a few books for the
bookshop, a few for myself, sat outside Chocolate Café did a bit of watercolour
sketching and various bits of shopping that can no longer be done in the Thanet
towns was done.
On the way we stopped of at the The Women's Land Army Museum
at Little Farthingloe Farm, (Folkestone Rd, Dover, CT15 7AA) this is a small
free museum next to the farm café and restaurant. This is a useful stop off if you have children with you, play ground, woodland trail, decent pot of tea.
Folkestone like Margate is being regenerated with art as a
central theme to the regeneration however the big difference is that while
Margate has lost its conventional town centre based around chain shops Folkestone
hasn’t.
A couple of empty Ramsgate shops have just gone on the
market, to be quite honest I never really know what to make of Ramsgate town
centre now, in one sense it looks pretty bad, while the café culture on Harbour
Parade seems to be doing OK.
Obviously I have a bookshop in King Street and this is a
fairly busy shop as bookshops go.
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