Friday 26 April 2019

Thanet pictures, thoughts on shops.


 The news that Debenhams is to close 22 of its 50 shops including Ashford, Folkestone and Canterbury but not Westwood Cross during next year is in the headlines today.

I suppose Primark expanding and opening up new shops shows that this isn't just to do with the clothes based retail world.

Locally in the short term I think the impact on Canterbury will be particularly significant, I have been talking about the shop closures there on and off for over a year, it's a worrying trend.

Here in Ramsgate the bookshop still seems to be doing fairly OK difficult to judge in terms of how things are with respect to other shops as I don't think it would be possible to get a good living out of running a viable bookshop. It is more a case of I didn't expect to and am doing what I enjoy, thank you very much.

I think that the relationship between towns and trade is important, something along the lines that there is a relationship between trade, civilisation and towns that extends back about 5,000 years and is based around having to go to concentrations of population to buy things which is now coming apart.

How important this is in terms of the fabric of our society is difficult to understand until well after it has happened I would expect.

We did a certain amount of work today and here is the link to the books that went out  I guess viable is partly a mixture of quality and price

None of the photos below are recent


















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