Starting with some older local photos, first The Ramsgate land train
And an early one of Merrie England, later to become Pleasurama, now I think mostly mud and waiting to become some sort of earner.
Northdown Road back in the day before back in the day
This is probably the 1948 festival of light or the Ramsgate lights for the Festival of Britain or the coronation.
2013 in Ramsgate, were you there? Do you remember anything about it?
I think it was the year Father Christmas had the legendary accident with The Tower of St George
Also the year Tesco wanted to move into Arlington House in Margate
A few businesses opened in Ramsgate
Of course some closed too, difficult times and very hard to know what goods would sell in sufficent quantities to cover the overheads.
A shop sign fell of in one of the gales
Ah yes and Albion House in Ramsgate opened to the public before the restoration, that was November 2017, but as Alice said. "I forgot."
Here is the link to the photos I took of inside it then
I had brunch at Wetherspoons aka The Royal Victoria Pavilion, consistently good value for money and about the only busy place in Ramsgate, which I guess is due to the horrible weather.
I took a few photos, but it was too cold and windy so I scurried off back to the bookshop where I pretended to do some work.
This is what was the Shipwrights Arms photographed today
Here it is photographed in 2015 a different lot of scaffolding and a different makeover, I wonder what it will be called this time
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