I think the pictures above benefit from viewing full size, of course the will expand anyway by clicking on them, but for those who want to download them.
One question that seems to be unanswered at the moment is did the Americans have bathing machines during the 1800s? I think they, especially the women went into the sea pretty much fully clothed. The oldest american beach scene photos I can find are from around 1905.
like this one of Atlantic City
The books that went out in the bookshop today were all Thanet local history, here is the link to the pictures of them
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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.