I'm not sure if the harbour is leaking more than usual or needs dredging more than usual
but the weed encrusted seats, shopping trolleys and bicycles seemed fairly close to the surface this evening
I suppose it could also be something to do with the ongoing repairs to the lock gates
back when I worked as a sort of mechanic around the harbour the gates leaked so much that they closed them at the top of the tide
and opened them when the tide came back in to the level the water in the inner basin had fallen to
I imagine when they had two sets of gates it was even more of a problem
I think the Cervia
may be on the bottom and now rising out of the water
this is the link to the rest of the photos from this evenings walk
Back in the day the main source of air pollution was coal the boat near the end of the pier is a collier and are the others below.
it seems strange today that when I was a child we had 5 tons of coal delivered for the winter
Note the use of "meter" and "drawback" in the poster
The collier "Grace" pictures here at Margate in 1930 looks to be afire and attracting spectators.
This is the link to the photos of the books we put out today
I have been working my way through the Manston Airport DCO documents and was surprised when I notified pins that the application form wouldn't open that they wrote back and said no one else had mentioned this to them.
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