Old Ramsgate and Margate pictures, minor ramble.

 This is Ramsgate's Western Undercliff probably 1960s

 as we learnt to our cost you have to have a constructive tourism focused council for this

This link takes you to a few photos of the 2015 sprint

This picture was taken outside Wetherspoons Pavilion probably around 1910, the train has gone down the tunnel through the Sands Station, now the derelict Pleasurama site over the turntable which was by the lift which you can see in the background. This happened on numerous occasions and sometimes killed or injured a few people.

When I did bar work, after work as a sort of mechanic or in the school hols back in the 60s and 70s the building in the background was still called The Refectory, all of the ullage went in the mild, including everything left in the cleared glasses I didn't work there for long. Back in the day I soon learnt that as I would be in a bar after work in the evenings I might just as well be standing behind it and being paid to chat and drink.

The man chucking bucketfuls of water onto Harbour Parade is getting the water out of the water tank which is part of the coal tender towed behind the steam locomotive. He is doing this to make it lighter and therefore easier to get back on the rails.

A busy day in the bookshop and I am reminding people who have books they want to sell to send us pictures of the spines.

 a couple of examples from the bookshop stock

you can either bring you phone or camera into the bookshop and show us the photos or you can email them or share the folder.