some old local pictures, with some explanation of what they are and today in Canterbury bookbuying

 Back in the good old days, in this case around 1870, when people came here on holiday they rented a house or a room and stayed for months. The money - for the most part - came from what the wealthier men did in the city.

So a gentleman would have come to Ramsgate and Margate by paddle steamer, which took about four hours from London Bridge, rented a house for his wife, servants, children, hangers on and returned to London for a few days every week to, service his mistresses, make some money in the city, this would normally have been done from his London club. 

 Back before the paddle steamer in the 1790s the newly completed harbour at Ramsgate provided a place for society to promenade.

This print of 1791 is probably the best in terms of trying to decipher around this time.

On to my day and mostly so I have a record of existing.

After having bought some books in Canterbury I had a cuppa in McDonald's and did

this quick watercolour sketch out of an upstairs window there. At the moment art wise I am interested in sketching down from above and in populating my sketches with people.

I then bought more books before arriving at Chocolate Cafe

where I did a bit more to this watercolour sketch.

I took a few photos

This is the link to rest of today's Canterbury photos

Some good some bad, but there you go, I partly blame the heavy load of books

I don't think Michael's Bookshop where I work here in Ramsgate would work properly if we didn't spend a fair amount of time buying books from around the area.

Link to the pictures of the books we put out yesterday

3 pages from one bought today in Canterbury 1858 Ramsgate