Can you date an old street map of Ramsgate? Sorry, Computer glitch and other stuff, behold the answers.

Click here to enlarge map

When you go about dating a map of Ramsgate, the more you know in terms of what was built when the more accurately you can date it. Maps like this one , aimed at tourists, are seldom dated because if you date a map 1065 along comes William the Conqueror in 1066 and makes a load of changes so no one will buy the maps with 1065 on them.

Blogger has started reducing the size of enlarged pictures, not as badly as Facebook does, but I don't know that it would be possible to read the street names even having clicked on it impulsively 

  

Here are Friday's answers and a link to the images I have published on the Michael's Bookshop Website 

School holidays at the moment so a very busy bookshop today, we did price and put out some books

link to photos of the books

I think the main reason is the lack of alternatives for families to go anywhere in winter where they can all do some shopping pretty much regardless of their budget.

We always have a reasonable range of books that are price between 5p and £5. Of course we do have some of the more expensive and collectable books priced between £20 and £500 

 pointing the phone's camera behind me bring up this at the moment

 1 A major fear during both world wars was coastal invasion meaning that after WW2 Ramsgate had significant concrete defences.

 2 Harbour Parade Ramsgate Temperance and government funding, the government passed the Defence of the Realm Act in 1914 at the beginning of the First World War. According to the provisions of this act pub hours were licensed, beer was watered down and was subject to a penny a pint extra tax. So there they are literally “on the bandwaggon”

The law was help prevent invasion and to keep morale at home high. It also imposed censorship of journalism and of letters coming home from the front line. 10 people were executed under the regulations.

 3 an extra picture or two should do more to explain this one

 The dome on the left

is Sanger's now Argos, such is the nature of town centre improvement.

4 update Kevin Mortimer Steve Villette Newgate pumped seawater to a storage tank in Zion Place, and it was distributed from there for street cleaning

link to the main article on Margate water supply



 Pumping Station c1912 Newgate Gap, seawater on the sign is an euphemism for sewage

The idea being to pump Margate's sewage away from Margate Main Sands, unless there was heavy rain or the gas engine in the photo failed in which case they opened the sluices .

Sorry about the lack of responses to comments on Facebook over the weekend, I had a bit of a computer glitch combined with a lot of stuff going on in the real world and I have only just had time to sort the technology out and start replying to people.

I spent the weekend moving my children into the two bedrooms I have just redecorated and this proved to be more time consuming than I expected.

I wasn't at work at Michaels Bookshop on Saturday but the work went on without me

here is the link to the books that got priced and put out on the shelves