Pier Castle, is a square block with round corner towers and
crenellated walls on the corner of Harbour Parade and Kent Terrace overlooking
the Clockhouse and later The Royal Victoria Pavilion. Aparently designed by
Mary Townley, who was an amateur architect apparently financed by her wealthy
husband in the construction of a number of buildings in Ramsgate. I think
Townley castle (now gone) and Townley House feature in this enterprise. Pier Castle
is said to have been built in 1819 it is certainly on the 1822 map so must have
been there then.
Not sure what Pier Castle was back in the 60s and 70s, I
worked down in that part of Ramsgate on and off, Stardust in the end of the
Pav, Pleasurama and The Refectory next door.
I know it was Gadds Brewery and Bakehouse when we moved back
to Ramsgate to open the bookshop in 1987 and that at some point it
metamorphosised into the Belgian Café, with eventually Eddie Gadd going off to
brew at Pysons Road Industrial Estate – which I think is technically
Broadstairs.
Anyway Andy walking Andy talking has apparently had a little
nap and is now opening up again soon.
The blokes repainting the outside are the ones who got the
double decker bus into The Old Kent Market in Margate, so I would think giving
the Belgian Café a bit of a makeover will be a wosisname.
Anyway some pictures ofit inint here is the link http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/418v/id4.htm
or below if they will go, there too
or below if they will go, there too
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