Its been one of those Mondays, yesterday The Observer newspaper which is part of the Guardian newspaper published an article on closed shops which featured a photo of Michael's Bookshop where I work in Ramsgate and of course is very much an open shop.
Difficult for us as our customer base is very broad geographically, so the walk in customers, phone calls, emails and messages from all over the town, Thanet, county, country and even some from abroad have been coming thick and fast.
I have spent most of the day explaining to people that we are open albeit 4 days a week, that we are not ghosts and so on.
Link to the article
Link to our opening hours
On to the old Thanet photos
This first set of three, all pretty much the same view from around the same time, note the large fish market next to the clock house
Someone asked me when the marina lift was built. That is the one that used to go between Nero's or the marina swimming pool and the East cliff
This is Lipton's in Margate in 1905
This is 1911 and shows gentleman being transported to their bathing machines where they would change into Edwardian swimming costumes leaving the bathing machine from the other side into the sea
Note the person maintaining the tram cables
And yes another baker in Ramsgate, I didn't notice it open so it may have been open for some time. I think I've lost count of how many we've got and I don't think Canterbury has got any.
Here where I work in Michael's bookshop Ramsgate it's been a reasonably busy Monday despite the guardian or observer saying we are a ghost shop
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