This picture shows what is now called "Harbour Parade" The oldest street map of Ramsgate shows it as "Waterside" in 1736, it later became "Goldsmid Place" then for a while an extension of "Harbour Street" which for some time ran from the bottom of High Street - where it joins King and Queen streets all the way to where Wetherspoons and the Pleasurama disaster are now.
I first used the pictures in this blog post about twelve years ago to illustrate our reprint of The New Ramsgate Guide for 1867 by J Bear, the original guide didn't have any pictures, for the extra interested here is the link to more about this book
Here are some of the pages from this 1867 guide,
The only books to go out today were a small collection about London Busses
Here is the link to the photos of the bus books
I didn't get out until the shop closed today, partly because of making the bookcases and partly because it was fairly busy despite the heatwave.
Here is the link to this evening's photos
So nothing very exciting all round.
The photo third from bottom presumably is of the original station. What is the enormous archway (although not strictly an arch!) between the station and the steps, which doesn't look to be the right angle for the railway tunnel? Was it purely decorative, or was it an entrance to something else?
ReplyDeleteJimmy, second station, the first also now gone was at the top of Chatham Street/High Street - at the other end of what is now Station Approach Road. The bridge was across the tunnel entrance, the brick support pillars are still there.
ReplyDeleteThank you. I must take a look next time I'm in Ramsgate.
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