Quiver lifeboat, strictly speaking the Margate Lifeboats were
surf boats
Correction from Michael Cates Michael One of the photos has a note suggesting Margate boats were "Surf Boats" not "Lifeboats". The boat in the photo is Quiver and is a 'proper' National Lifeboat institution (soon to be Royal NLI) with watertight aircases and because it was a pulling and sailing boat capable of deep water and longer distance rescues. the equivalent of All Weather Lifeboats today. The surfboats - like Friend to All Nations - were not (R)NLI designs and were much lighter and neither watertight nor self-righting.
Eliza Harriet at Whitstable 1889
Wm. Pull 1847-1948
Paddy Walker 1872-1948
From Google maps for the picture above it
Bookbuying in Canterbury today, there is a bit of an irony here inasmuch as as while Canterbury has a very good bookshop for antiquarian and collectable books it just doesn't have a general secondhand independent bookshop. Which means in many cases the books I bought in Canterbury today will be bought by people in Canterbury coming to Michael's Bookshop in Ramsgate to buy them.
I think the relentless demise of reasonably good shops where ordinary items are for sale at prices that compete with the internet is impacting on our quality of life.
One of the other thing I go to Canterbury for is civilised afternoon tea
Opposite Chocolate Cafe, La Trappiste which had metomorphasised into Deakin & Co when I started this watercolour sketch has now become The Drapers Arms. Fortunately the sketch is on Bockingford NOT paper so I was able to scrub the old sign off and put the new one on.
No photos of Canterbury today due to the inclement whether however
This is a link to some I prepared earlier
For those in need of a reasonably priced book about René Descartes or Edvard Munch,
this is the link to the books that went out yesterday
I was listening to a lecture about Confucius's philosophy earlier when the lady academic called something, taxiomicart, I've no idea how you spell it but that was what it sounded like, anyone know what the word means?
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