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Friday 25 March 2022
Sunday 13 March 2022
Click for. Has Ramsgate got better or worse in the last ten years?
I was looking through some pictures that I took of Ramsgate at the end of February beginning of march 2012.
So has Ramsgate got better or worse in the last 10 years?
We'd DFLd back in the 1960s and I worked part-time in various bars in Ramsgate during the school holidays and later after work.
Very different times the late 60s early 70s, most of the larger bars had live music and quite a lot of them had a floor show show which was often a stripper. So I have mixed feelings about bringing it all back from then. But 10 years ago I thought I'd have some sort of idea, I think on the whole there's been a bit of an improvement, but what do you think?
Click on this link for the second batch of Ramsgate pictures from ten years ago
Click on this link for the third batch of Ramsgate pictures from ten years ago
Click on this link for the first batch of Ramsgate pictures from ten years ago
Thursday 10 March 2022
Click on the pictures to enlarge them ramble
This morning's watercolour sketch
Tuesday 8 March 2022
Click to expand the old Thanet pictures and where we are in terms of reopening Michael's Bookshop in Ramsgate
Ellington park probably Edwardian
Cliftonville I think this one might be Edwardian too
Joss bay probably 1960s or 70s
And finally the hoverport at pegwell bay