Link to their facebook page link to goggle page
This is a predominantly new bookshop, a local venture well worth supporting, more photos on the link to the camera card later in this post.
The old Bank Bookshop
Link to their google page
This is a good secondhand charity bookshop, well worth a visit.
Hooked on Books, general secondhand bookshop. Which is sadly closing on the 21st September.
link to their google page
One up one down, the bookshop world is tenuous, all in all a bit of a tricky business.
Here in Ramsgate at Michael's Bookshop where I work, visiting other bookshops is something I consider to be part of the job.
Link to our google page
The world of bookselling is an ever changing one and has been since I first became involved in it about 50 years ago. The worst of the changes to the bookshops that sell new books was the end of the Net Book Agreement, this resulted in the closure of most of the small independent bookshops. The Knock on effect being a considerable breakdown in the relationship between the writer and the reader and the end of the blooming of literary fiction in the UK.
Anyway here is the link to the pictures of the books we put out yesterday
I promise to update my East Kent bookshops leaflet, on the whole more closures than openings I'm afraid.
On to the Pleasurama cliff facade, which isn't looking too good at the moment. The patches on the front are the tell tale signs of water getting behind the facade and small collapses of the chalk behind the facade.
The concrete cliff facade or cliff wall isn't a support structure for the cliff, but is there to prevent the chalk from weathering, weathering is mostly the process of water damaging the structural integrity of the chalk, something exasperated when the water in the chalk freezes.
Essentially the cliff behind the Pleasurama site is in a bad state for a number of reasons, tunnelling for HMS Fervent, naval guns installed in the top of the cliff during both world wars, the poor condition of the cliff top surfaces, being the main ones.
I would expect leaking pipes to be behind the problem here.
here is the link to all the pictures on my camera card for the last couple of days
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