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Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Old local pictures, minor ramble
Click on the pictures to make them expand, some are more expandable than others probably because I pressed different buttons during the scanning process, mostly Ramsgate as you would expect.
After yesterday’s post I found myself back in
the business of trying to communicate with TDC about Pleasurama. I think part
of the problem is that Ramsgate needs a strong and consistent advocate backed
by some Ramsgate based organisation to get a fair deal for Ramsgate from the various
levels of government.
Over the past thirty years I have had the
bookshop in the town I have seen a few likely organisations get going and then
flounder. We even went as far as getting a town council, but in that time the
main issue, the Pleasurama site hasn’t been resolved and the secondary big one
Westcliff Hall hasn’t either.
The pavilion seemed to be solved almost against council wishes. This picture would be before 1900, the tower on the Granville was lowered in 1900 the structures on the left where the pavilion is now were destroyed in the 1897 storm.
Early picture of the pavilion worth expanding 1904 was its first or second year.
Photos from the last couple of days next
A new shop in Ramsgate High Street
I wonder if the scaffolding on the old £1 shop site means anything
To let two units at around £1,500 per week each, I wonder does the STP stand for serenity tranquillity and peace, probably not.
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