Pictures of Thanet in the 1960s Saturday's answers

These should expand well with a bit of clicking, I can't make a proper quiz about the dates as I don't know the answers myself, but please, if you spot anything to narrow down the dates, please put it in your Facebook comments. 

I think these two are Ramsgate Harbour in the late 1960s, could be a bit earlier, when did the demolition around The Admiral Napier happen?

I bought the two Ramsgate ones over the weekend and have added some Margate and Broadstairs ones from my collection.

My mother moved to Ramsgate in the mid 1960s and for most of the late 60s I was a teenager away at boarding school doing different holiday jobs in Thanet.

Do I remember much about Thanet in the 1960s? I can do certain amount looking a the cars, e.g. the distinctive rear lights of the Mk1 Cortina to the left of the photo above says after 1962, the befores are very difficult, when did the big roundabout around the clock tower go?    

Probably the old 1960s problem. "I was there so I can't remember." Combined with the 60s being over 50 years ago.

Broadstairs doesn't change much at all.

Saturday's answers, the pictures showing the pub signs say it all really.

Including a Royal Oak bonus picture

Today and here at Michael's Bookshop where I work in Ramsgate, we had our firs quiet morning this August, much busier this afternoon. I do wonder about the Ramsgate town shopping, obviously most of the shops have closed and yet we seem to be pretty busy. 

I have spent most of my work time during August taking books off of the shelves and making sure they are cheaper than the  same books on the internet. It's a huge and ongoing task as there are nearly a thousand shelves in the bookshop and I only get 2 or 3 done a day.

Here is the link to the photos of the books we put out today
 

The are some out of print East Kent ones.
 

4 Thanet Pubs to identify and yesterday's answers and a ramble from the bookshop

 
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Here at Michael's Bookshop in Ramsgate I have been working on the English Towns and Counties section and have just done our selection of books about London, I did live in London years ago and am reading Edward Rutherford's fictionalised account "London" at the moment, so all in all a fairly interesting task today.

Trying to take account of the changing prices online and adjusting our stock of about 30,000 books so they all compete with online prices is an ongoing task, which I try to make more interesting .

Now we are closed on Tuesdays as well as Thursdays, we get three days off in a row, hopefully I will get time to do some painting and drawing.

With Friday's answers I have just put up the photos without the deletions as there is a sense that some of them had more than one answer. A bit of clicking and the photos will expand enough to read everything, I hope. 

Some Cafes and Restaurants with the names rubbed out, can you name any of them? The Answers to Wednesday's quiz and a ramble from the bookshop.

 
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There were quite a few out of print local books among the books we put out for sale today 

here is the link to the pictures of the books

To be perfectly honest I think some of these are going to be too hard but it's very difficult to tell until people try to answer them. 

Here at Michael's bookshop where I work in Ramsgate I have been trying to sort out the big book section that is either called English topography, English travel, or books about places in England.

It's a very difficult section to organise because of the sizes of the different books and pamphlets.

You can't just put them into alphabetical order or group them under where they are geographically and just at the moment I'm a bit stumped.

Of course the part of this section has Thanet local history in it it's very busy section.

Lurking in the back of my mind like good king Wenceslas on a bad day, and I guess like everybody else, I'm wondering about the cost of winter fuel and heating bookshop. I was expecting the problem to be worse anyway because of putting in blown air ventilation to reduce the spread of winter bugs including coronavirus. I suppose in business there's always some sort of problem but I do hope the government come up with some sort of solution for small businesses.

I'm hoping closing the extra day, we're only open on weekdays that don't start with a T, may go some way to reducing the problem.

Answers to Wednesday's questions 

These four pictures of Ramsgate were taken after the bombing raid of August 24th 1940, can you identify where they show?

1 Hardress Street, Gasworks end

2 Woodford Avenue 

3 Vye & Son Queen Street

4 Sussex Street

Ramsgate August 24th 1940 anniversary questions, Monday's answers and a ramble from the bookshop

 These four pictures of Ramsgate were taken after the bombing raid of August 24th 1940, can you identify where they show?

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The pictures were all taken from the book we publish

 click here for an excerpt from the book

Link to the books we put out in the bookshop today

next Monday's answers

Thanet mystery pub number 1 Ye Olde Charles Inn Click here for more info

Thanet mystery pub number 2, Duke of York click here for more pictures and info  

Do you know your Thanet pubs? Again, one Ramsgate and one Margate pub, A Ramble from the bookshop.

 
Thanet mystery pub number 1

Thanet mystery pub number 2

Michael's Bookshop where I work in Ramsgate has been having a busy Monday today, while I have been struggling to sort out the Ordnance Survey Maps. We try to have a reasonable selection of most of the different series and try to keep them in some sort of order. 

I am glad I mostly work with books, I guess we have just under 1,000 Shelves of books and fortunately only 4 shelves of maps, which piled up on my desk slipped about all over the place.

This is the link to pictures of the books we put out in the bookshop today 

We are closed tomorrow as it is weekday beginning with T 

The answers to Saturday's questions

Question 1 Which Ramsgate pub now demolished. Answer The Admiral Napier in York Terrace Click on this link for more info and pictures

Question 2 Which Margate pub now demolished rebuilt and recently used for a different purpose. Answer Six Bells 201 High Street / Six Bells Lane Margate Click on this link for more information and pictures 

Can you name these 2 Thanet pubs? The answer to yesterday's question and a ramble from the bookshop.

 
Question 1 Which Ramsgate pub now demolished

Question 2 Which Margate pub now demolished rebuilt and recently used for a different purpose

Here at Michael's Bookshop in Ramsgate I have been pricing books for people with a local interest.

One of them being an 1830 copy of Patterson's Roads by Edward Mogg,

This has some Thanet content

you need to click on the map to expand it

Next the link to the books we put out in the bookshop today

The answer to yesterday's question 

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This is the old building, the pub was demolished and rebuilt sometime around 1900. Answer The Wheatsheaf, High St. St Lawrence 

Which Thanet Pub? The answers to Wednesday's questions and a Ramble from Michael's Bookshop

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This is the old building, the pub was demolished and rebuilt sometime around 1900.

We were out and about buying books yesterday, lunch in Canterbury 

which usually produces and interesting picture.

I have been at work here at Michael's Bookshop in Ramsgate, pricing Kent local history books today 

Thinking of inflation in the news, as far as I can see reasonably desirable secondhand and antiquarian books priced between about £3 and about £70 published between about 1800 and 2015. which is what these ones in the photo are. I can't see that prices have changed much in the last 5 years. some titles have gone up a bit and some down a bit, but nothing significant.

Here is the link to the pictures of the books we put out in the bookshop today

Question 1 What was the purpose built Victorian Tudor building in the foreground and what is marching past it. Answer Gwyn & Co wine merchants premises of around 1898, designed by W J Jennings of Canterbury, in a Victorian Tudor-style, now Miles & Barr Estate Agents 51 Queen StreetRamsgate, CT11 9EJ. Ramsgate Boys Brigade marching past.

Question 2 Where was Kandy's in Thanet, I don't know the answer to this one but feel I should. Answer Now Panda Chinese takeaway 172 Canterbury Rd, Westbrook, Margate CT9 5JW The barn relates to Garlinge Farm no. 2 is Kandy's Tea Room on Canterbury Road opposite The Hussar. T. Wing builders in the old barn that was part of Garlinge Farm.

Question 3 which Ramsgate Tug as Ramsgate had 3 tugs of this name a rough date or number . Answer, this is the first  Ramsgate tug called "Aid" served Ramsgate 1865-1891

 

Three Thanet mystery photos Click to enlarge, the answer to Monday's quiz and a ramble from the bookshop

Question 1 What was the purpose built Victorian Tudor building in the foreground and what is marching past it.

Question 2 Where was Kandy's in Thanet, I don't know the answer to this one but feel I should.

Question 3 which Ramsgate Tug as Ramsgate had 3 tugs of this name a rough date or number too.

Here in Michael's Bookshop, where I work in Ramsgate, it's a busy day, customers who have come from up north and Europe especially for the the bookshop. Our Thanet local history books getting a particularly heavy browsing today. 

Here is the link to pictures of the newly arrived books that we priced today

The answer to Monday's question

Which Thanet Pub? The Hare and Hounds, click on this link for more pictures and history of the pub

Which Thanet Pub, Friday's answers and a ramble from the bookshop.

Which Thanet Pub?

Another week in Michael's Bookshop where I work here in Ramsgate although now closed on days starting with T and Sundays, so not too demanding. For anyone interested in the bookshop's reopening, surprisingly to me, we are just as busy as we were before we closed. 

As bookshop enthusiasts will know we take photos of all the books we price, every working day and put them on the internet so bibliophiles don't miss anything.

Here is the link to Today's Book Photos happy browsing 

 Friday's answers

 1 where in Thanet Ramsgate's Westcliff Bandstand, now converted into the boating pool

2 Where in Thanet, Garlinge 

3 Which Thanet pub, The Wheatsheaf St Lawrence 

4 Where in Thanet or which hotel Truro Court Hotel Ramsgate corner of Wellington Crescent and Augusta Road