Do you recognise this Thanet cafe, the photo was taken ten years ago.
25.07.09 Pony, file ref
The next few photos are of the 1949 Viking invasion of Broadstairs
My day off, wosisname, well, it was pouring with rain, so we got into the car and headed for Marrin's bookshop in Folkestone, very close to a large indoor car park - meaning that armed with an an umbrella, we could start in the dry.
Here is a link to their website
This bookshop has been open since 1946, has a stock of collectable books, mostly priced between about £10 and about £5,000, very much a destination for book collectors.
We bought a few books there and then headed of to the Oxfam Bookshop, but got diverted to Chocolate Cafe, where I painted a bit over lunch.
Most of the rain and sleet happened while this was going on so we didn't get wet
The watercolour painting from there is progressing slowly.
We did Books and toys which has a good range of popular fiction paperbacks, price around £2.
The answer to yesterday's mystery photo is both simple and complicated, the simple answer is the fire escape to the Granville Theatre,
this is the link to the complicated local history answer
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