Saturday 16 November 2019

A picture mystery and some history, art exhibition in Ramsgate, a couple of Victorian Broadstairs photos

The picture above was the first picture to be bought by the local council for the proposed new art gallery in Margate.

The question is when did the council buy it? Or another way of looking at this is; having decided to build an art gallery in Margate, how long did it take until Turner Contemporary opened?

Other questions like. What does the picture show? Who painted it? When was it painted? They are up to you to answer. The answers appear further down this blog post and of course Auntie Google knows everything.

Next the new art exhibition in Ramsgate, Matthew Dunn and Stevie Wigg at Nice Things Harbour Street Ramsgate






A few new nice things in Nice Things





Still in Harbour Street
Trade Station has closed, part of the town centre shopping problem.

A couple of Victorian Broadstairs photos next
 My Broadstairs history leaves a lot to be desired, I am guessing the date at around 1890 and hope to be corrected with something more accurate.
I was out painting at Wetherspoons in Ramsgate yesterday evening







next a Ramsgate oil painting spot the difference
 Same artist so what's what?

Here at Michael's Bookshop, where I work in Ramsgate I have been expanding the science fiction section.

The answer to yesterday's mystery picture was; The Western Undercliff Cafe, more photos of there then follow












 
 




link to the books we put out today

Next one very experimental vlog about an 1895 Ramsgate guide



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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.