Feeling a bit lazy today, so I have just taken some photos of a few random postcards that I have probably used before. The first one is Ramsgate Sands with the pier in the background, the entrance to the railway tunnel visible, although the colourist has done something strange in the tunnel and changed hitory a bit.
This one was probably taken from one of the upstairs windows of Albion House in about 1910, you can see the dereliction behind the old Queens Head
This one posted during WW1 and presumably showing prewar Margate, a bit of a window into a past that is difficult to relate to. A postcard to Dear Sir at Accounts IV War Office, difficult to relate to?
August 1914 and as you can see from the text, ripping in Palm Bay
In this one from 1905, Ethel seems to want china babies brought to Broadstairs
The rest didn't say anything on the back.
Here in Michael's Bookshop Ramsgate where I work, we have just topped up the Bygone Kent main series magazines.
The rest of the pictures of the ones that went out today are on the bookshop's blog
Here is the link
Price wise these fluctuate a bit, the newer ones, after Meresborough stopped publishing them are generally more expensive as they are harder to get, although not necessarily better. At the moment we are selling the main series ones at 99p each to walk in customers, so reasonably good value for reasonably well researched and edited local history.
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