Ramsgate Clockhouse has been very dark for some time, this was because the bulb behind the clockface had burnt out and nothing to do with the period from around 1842 to 1881 when it had a blackface.
After getting a bin outside Michael's bookshop where I work in Ramsgate I was pleased to see the bulb has been replaced when
I wandered down to Wetherspoons aka the Pav this evening for a bite to eat and a bit more of a daub on my watercolour of the view from the balcony.
Good are to paint in, this is a page from one of Turner's sketchbooks Pier Castle bottom left and the buildings tat used to stand on Pier Yard car park top right
Here is the sale document for Kent Place in 1837
signed by Mary Townley two years before she died.
And here the an artist's impression for The Turner Centre [Snohetta and Spence's design for the Turner Centre] the scale model was washed away by the sea and the design abandoned.
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