I went to investigate Ramsgate High Street during my lunch break from Michael's Bookshop where I work here in Ramsgate today. I suppose like most towns the main issue with Ramsgate's shopping centre is it is so fragmented.
Despite this fragmentation we had a reasonably busy day, there was a fair amount of local history amongst the books we put out.
Here is the link to the photos of today's books
I have added pictures of Margate's High Street to this post.
Photos date from different times
This sketch is by J. M. W. Turner, I would guess when he was at school in Margate in the mid to late 1780s
this one from an 1820 guide, although had coloured by someone evidently colour blind but enthusiastic.
This one seems to be slightly geographically disadvantaged and i guess about 1860
Was it Greggs
Over the years I have considered many additions to the bookshop but not a sewing machine department.
before or after it was Mad Max?
Next the Ramsgate street directory pages for the High St in the early 1970s. If like me you were here in Ramsgate in the early 1970s it is indeed a bit of a walk down memory lane.
I didn't get very far with my lunchtime investigation of Ramsgate High street
The Ramsgate Thrift Store proved to be what it said on the sign
A range of Levis for £1
An Island Vintage where the owner explained to me why the earth is flat
One more new shop moving towards opening, but in Harbour Street
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