Thursday 25 July 2019

Boris's Golden Age Gets off to a Hot Start and we look at some old local photos

Starting with old photos of Ramsgate Harbour, while in the back of my mind lurks the business of Boris, BREXIT and what the impact on the almost extinct small non-food shopkeeper will be.

The bookshop being closed today because of it being thursday I went and sat on Ramsgate sands and sketched for a bit.

When William Powell Frith did this preliminary sketch for his famous paining "Ramsgate Sands" 1850 The Royal Victoria Pavilion aka Wetherspoons had't been built.

I painted until I got uncomfortable sitting on the bit of wood the paining is sitting on the the photo, it wasn't very long.

Then I took some photos
here is the link to them

Most of the books we put out yesterday were part of a collection of books on witchcraft and paganism

here is the link to the photos of the books











 The rest of the photos ate The Winter Gardens in Margate











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  1. B.B.PayneJuly 27, 2019 9:23 am

    Some very interesting ones especially of the Winter Gardens at Margate, when it was in its original state before the post Ww2 rebuilding.

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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.

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