Not a particularly hard day at work today on account of the weather I would imagine, just a few people having fairly long book briowses
This is where West Cliff Hall aka Ramsgate Motor Museum is, but before it was built and opened in 1914 when WW1 broke out.
This the Granville before the end was destroyed in WW2
This one after the Pavilion aka Wetherspoons was built in 1903
Whoops I am not so good on Margate as this one says 1921 on the postmark, so not strictly speaking Edwardian, George V but not Georgian.
Ah where was I? Oh yes dealing with my ignorance about Margate, Margate blogger
Disabled Don sent me this
link which leads to an article saying roughly that antiquarian booksellers are better off with technology.
I should stress here that I am not an antiquarian bookseller
but a general secondhand bookseller who is very much focused on trying to
maintain a physical bookshop while using technology to attract people to the
bookshop rather than selling books online.
Hence posting pictures of the
books we put out each day and pictures of
all the books on the shelves in the bookshop
I have a sneak suspicion that while readers may read great authors fairly carefully anything that I wrote online would either be ignored or skimmed over, however pictures are a different matter.
The text on this 1905 card of Margate, posted in Cambridge is interesting I suppose now Cambridge is much more or a tourist attraction than Margate
I may add to this one if I think more
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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.