Anyone remember Pinball Parlour Ramsgate and Margate? Some more stuff ending up with the Isle of Thanet Photographic Society at York Street Gallery in Ramsgate

Sadly moved to Margate after promises of a more prosperous future and then closed

link to more Pinball Parlour photos

 It was approximately here for a short time.

I was down at the Royal Victoria Pavilion aka Wetherspoons in pier yard Ramsgate this evening

so some photos of that part of Ramsgate from before 1903 when the pavilion was built

as you see it was used as a work yard

I think this one was probably taken from the mast of a ship on the the slipway

Next this press release from Turner Contemporary 

it's spot the difference with the painting.

Turner Contemporary press@turnercontemporary.org To michaelchild michaelchild@aol.com
Press Release: Under Embargo Until 13:30pm on Wednesday 16 October 2019

Artist Conrad Shawcross has been commissioned by local school children to create a major new art work for Ramsgate Royal Harbour in 2020

In connection with Turner Contemporary, leading British artist, Conrad Shawcross, has been commissioned to make a new artwork for the Kent town by local primary school children. This will be the culmination of ‘Pioneering Places’, an ambitious multiyear project happening across East Kent to encourage local people to get involved with cultural organisations and shape the place where they live.

Over 60 children from two Ramsgate primary schools — Ramsgate Arts Primary School and St Laurence-in-Thanet Church of England Junior Academy — have interviewed and selected Shawcross to create an artwork for the town. They have asked that it responds to the themes of ‘play and playfulness’, ‘caring’ and ‘modern machinery’. The resulting work will be a series of bright, modular, mechanical disks, to be placed in and around the beach and Royal Harbour area. The 8 to 10 year olds will work alongside the artist to select the location and develop the work over the next few months, ready to be launched next July...

Conrad Shawcross was one of the early exhibitors at Turner Contemporary the file name on the photo above says Turner Contemporary Margate   17.4.2011 438, so if the camera settings were right I took it then, anyway ages ago. One to watch out with, around the town?

 The Guardian ran an article on the photographer Tony Ray-Jones here is the link to it an interesting view of the 60s in the UK

It included his photo of the Pav here in Ramsgate which has been published on the web several times during the last few years. Plenty more of his work on Google images here is the link having spent the latter part of the 60s in Ramsgate, often working in bars after working as a sort of mechanic during the day, I can confirm that the 60s wasn't all it's cracked up to be.

Isle of Thanet Photographic Society at York Street Gallery in Ramsgate exhibition 16 Oct - 23 Oct 19