Q1 Where in Thanet
Q2 Where in Thanet there really is a butchers shop in there under the display
q3 Where in Thanet
Q4 Where in Thanet
Q5 Where in Thanet
Q6 is for younger readers, any idea what these things are? They used to be all over our beaches and cut your feet, of course back in the good old days there wouldn't have been many older readers because of the much lower life expectancy -n 1965 male life expectancy was 65 and most men in the uk died around retirement age.
Here in the bookshop I have pretty much finished putting the extra shelves in the craft section, it's mainly books about woodwork, metalwork and needlework but I wanted to put the architecture books in with the books on building and repairing houses and to consolidate the antiques section so all the books about pottery (for instance) were together - making or marks.
Hopefully this will give us a bigger art section and I am particularly looking to buy whole books about individual artists at the moment.
Thursday tomorrow and with sleet forecast I am aiming to start on decorating the fourth bedroom in the flat above the bookshop.
We are always keen to buy books and if you want to sell us some, the first step is to sen photos of the spines, just photos of the back of the books before you even think of taking theem of your bookshelves, like this.
this was taken in my study with my mobile phone just now and as you can see it's very easy for us to decide which ones we want to buy. You can then email the photos to the bookshop michaelsbookshop@aol.com
Keeping an eye on the Michael's Bookshop blog where we put the photos of the books we put out in the shop every day can also help to give you an idea of the type of books we buy.
Link to the photos of the books we put out today
Yesterday's answers
Taken from the top of Pugin's Grange, you can go up the tower there on open days
This is the viking invasion of Thanet
it may be Ramsgate
but most likely Broadstairs
As expected a lot of people got Ramsgate Town Hall, but only one person spotted the the architectural feature that narrows down the date, if you look carefully you will see that only half of what is now Lloyds Bank which was the Canterbury bank then. the dates between building the firt bis and the second bit give you the date span for the photo.
Bank. 1896 and 1929 by T.N. Wilson. Ashlar. Two storeys on plinth with
rusticated ground floor supporting band, with lintel-band to 1st floor,
moulded acanthus frieze to modillion eaves cornice and parapet. Projecting
centrepiece with Corinthian half-columns supporting pediment. Nine bay
front, with sashes on 1st floor with enriched semi-circular heads above
lintel band. Semi-circular headed iron glazed picture windows on ground
floor, and central double panelled doors with traceried fanlight and open
pediment on brackets. Canted single bay corner to right and 3 bay facade
to right return, with same details as main front. Arms of Canterbury and
Ramsgate in centrepiece (built for the Canterbury Bank) (See Busson,
Ramsgate, 92; BOE, Kent II, 1983, 428).
Car 3 @ Fort Hill 1922. This was another one that not many got right.
The one that hardly anyone got right was Tivoli Gardens, so popular in Victorian times it had its own railway halt. I've marked it on a map
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