Sunday 20 May 2018

Canterbury of our Grandfathers and 1927 and 1948 or possibly great grandfathers grandfather


I was off painting and bookbuying in Canterbury, some people would call it a day off and others work, whatever it was I have a pile of books to show for it and over the next few days the photos of them will appear like the ones that were priced and put away yesterday on the bookshop blog. Here is the link to yesterdays http://michaelsbookshop.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/rogue-in-bookshop.html

In the sense of coals and Newcastle, one of the books I bought today was about Canterbury and once I have enjoyed it, learnt a bit more about Canterbury I will probably sell it in my bookshop to one of my customers from Canterbury.

I would do a reprint of it but think part of it is still in copyright, it is a bit difficult to tell what’s what as the edition I have is the 1948 revision of the 1927 edition with a lot of the book focused on around 1850, gramps.

Anyway here are some pictures of pages from the book



















I did a bit more to two of the watercolours that I am painting from Chocolate Café, although it may be a bit of a case of spot the difference.




I have a fairly long association with Canterbury having worked there in about 1970 and for a long time it has been my closest shopping town, although recently the town main shops I used, Chromos the artist’s materials shop and the St Margaret’s St Waterstones – sometime the largest bookshop in east Kent, have both closed.  

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2 comments:

  1. LyndonMay 21, 2018 7:47 am

    Hi Michael. Many thanks for your thanetonline blogs, fast becoming a daily must-read. I can relate to your camera adventures but this is a suggestion that your readers may be interested [as I am] in discovering your process and sequences for publishing your own local history books.
    From concept to typesetting, through proof reading and editing to the actual print run, binding and pricing. Well it would be change from commercials for Wetherspoon, shots of cholesterol laden breakfasts and downloads of unedited camera cards, Sincere regards. Colin

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  2. Michael ChildMay 22, 2018 4:04 pm

    Ah Colin a tricky one, virtually every book has had a different process, I'll see what I can do.

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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.

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