Happy Christmas and old Thanet pictures

 

I'm assuming that this one is of Margate caves like the ones below.

These two are Broadstairs of course

A couple of early ones from before the red brick arches

Link to pictures of books we put out for sale Friday

Link to the pictures of the books we put out Christmas Eve

Sorry about the lack of posting it's been busy where I work at Michael's Bookshop in Ramsgate, but suddenly mid Christmas eve afternoon it has gone absolutely quiet giving me a chance to write this blog post.

Vintage Thanet from the air

 Most of the older aerial shots of Thanet date from in the 1920s and 30s. I think probably because aerial photography was something of a novelty back then.

Once again I'm a bit behind with my blog posting and Facebook linking. This is supposed I should put up on Monday afternoon but I'm publishing it just now Wednesday morning.

Hey where I work at Michael's bookshop in Ramsgate we have been busy with Christmas shopping. Well that's my excuse for being kind with things anyway.

Link to the books we put out Monday

On the Christmas shopping front quite a bit of the stuff we bought online is still stuck in the post somewhere. We went to Westwood cross yesterday which was reasonably busy

Thanet Fetes and Carnivals

 Not sure when they started calling carnivals carnivals but probably a lot later then people would expect

Not much text today, I am hard at work selling people books to give as Christmas presents 

Link to the books we put out for sale Saturday  

Edwardian Ramsgate Holiday and Margate Sun Deck

 

13th August 1905 members of the Calais band and the mayor C R Dowling

This is the road to the fort in Margate in 1820, so where Turner Contemporary is now

Then these three showing thee sun deck

Here at Michael's bookshop in Ramsgate we have been busy with people Christmas shopping.

Our Thanet local history books are holding up fairly well and I'm hoping to have pretty much all of them in stock through the week before Christmas.

Link to the pictures of the books we put out for sale today

Some older pictures of Ramsgate and Margate

 First these photos of Ramsgate harbour sluice gates they show the damage caused by running the sluices too fast.

I assume these are Victorian pictures it's really hard to tell from the background but they look pretty old to me.

Stereoscope pictures from Mick Twyman's collection next. With these not only do the pictures have an old look but you can tell from their content that they are fairly early I think they're all Victorian.

This is Margate lower High Street

Margate harbour from the pier

Looking towards marine parade

And another one of the harbour.

On to what I've been up to the last coupe of days.

3 A6 sketches yesterday

I've been having quite a few difficulties with Facebook and with FB groups recently. 

I do try why to post links on the relevant local Facebook groups to blog posts containing historical Thanet pictures. As I have been suspended from one of the main Ramsgate local history groups and obviously I can't see any reason why, it would be very useful if any group moderators who don't want me to post would say so and I would stop posting to whichever group doesn't want me to to post.

link to photos of the books we put out in Michael's Bookshop in Ramsgate today

Ramsgate Marina and Margate Lido photos

 

Starting with Margate lido as it's the oldest as it started out life as the Clifton Baths 1824-28 John Boys

most of what you see here dates from the 1920s a large complex of bars, cafes and amusement arcades focused on the out-door swimming pool.

In Ramsgate the oldest part of the whole leisure complex started out at the marina theatre in the late 1800s

This picture dates from the construction as you can see the railway track for the cranes to build the pool

Today for me is work at Michael's Bookshop in Ramsgate, link to the books we put out today