Wednesday 21 August 2019

David and Cathy Harvey at Nice Things Harbour Street Ramsgate, an evening stroll in Ramsgate and some old local pictures

 Apologies for doing this all in one blog post, time is not on my side at the moment. A much needed day off tomorrow, I do need to get out more. I may be a bit light headed as the three big holes in the road opposite the bookshop here in King Street Ramsgate were filled in very noisily between 3 am and 5 am so I decided to have a nap this afternoon and now, despite the evening walk, well I'm a bit stunned.

 A couple of photos of the David and Cathy Harvey exhibition at Nice Things Harbour Street
 
And one from the evening walk. If you want to look at the rest of the pictures of the exhibition and the walk that I took this evening

here is the link to the photos

more historic photos next, some expand better than others
 Fishing Smacks in Ramsgate Harbour getting a coat of tar varnish sometime around 1900 by the look of it.
 A few Margate photo adverts taken in 1902 for this book



 Another Ramsgate fishing smack
 A couple of the second Ramsgate Tug called Aid
 The bucket dredger Hope on the far right of this one
 Ramsgate Tugs Aid and Doria after 1903 as you can see the pavilion and the shorter Granville tower
Ramsgate tug Vulcan before 1900 as you can see the taller Granville tower if I could only remember when the clock faces on the Clock House were black I could nail the date better
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  1. Michael CatesAugust 21, 2019 8:37 pm

    The Clock House dials were black between 1842 and 1881 - or thereabouts.

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  2. Michael ChildAugust 21, 2019 9:07 pm

    Thanks Michael I will try to remember

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  3. Michael CatesAugust 22, 2019 8:54 am

    Re: AID and DORIA, to narrow the date down a bit more Michael, DORIA was new to William Watkins in 1909. I can spot those black and red funnels a mile off, even in black and white! Both tugs saw service during the evacuation from Dunkirk but AID was sunk with all hands later in 1940. DORIA was sold by William Watkins in 1947.

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  4. Michael CatesAugust 22, 2019 12:30 pm

    ...and AID was delivered to the BOT for Ramsgate Harbour in September 1914.

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