Wednesday 26 July 2023

Chuck and Blade Ramsgate View, Thanet Archive Photos and Bookshopping in Faversham

 

Can you spot the error in this AI produced view of Ramsgate from Chuck and Blade Burgers ?

I thought AI could produce a round picture from a round building and the robot and I nearly got it right. 

This bank building that has been Pizza Express, Travellers in Italy, and is now a Chuck and Blade Burgers started out life just before 1900 as the National Westminster Bank. You can see the tall Granville tower which was lowered to the height is now in 1900 and of course the national Westminster Bank completed in the photo above, you'll probably have to do a bit of tapping or clicking to expand it.

The demolishing of The Albion Hotel which was on the site and the building of Madeira walk and the National Westminster Bank was all result of the Ramsgate improvement act 1878

My guess is that it was built around 1897 above is a photograph of the construction happening.


Next comes from pictures taken inside Chuck and blade burgers in Ramsgate. The pictures will all expand with a bit of clicking.


















The meal we had was excellent burgers chips and drink for two people cost about £30. Secondhand bookselling and publishing books about the history of the Isle of a Thanet doesn't make a profit that it does supplement my income so I wouldn't be able to afford to do this very often.














Next some historic pictures of Ramsgate and Margate harbours









Here at Michael's Bookshop in Ramsgate we sell about 100 books per day and as we open 4 days a week this means we have to find 400 quality books every week so we spend a lot of the time when the bookshop is closed out and about buying books. You can see what we have bought by clicking on the link to our new acquisitions website where we but photos of the books as we price them.

Onto book buying in Faversham yesterday.. Faversham still has a second hand bookshop and now has a recently opened new bookshop so this is a good town to go bookshopping.







I had lunch at the Sun Hotel which is opposite the secondhand bookshop. A very substantial beef and stilton sandwich combined with a pot of tea cost about £10.


We had hoped to play pool at the Churchill Tavern but the pool table was closed so we went on for a drink at the Queen Charlotte Pub in Ramsgate





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  1. Ramsgate BoyJuly 27, 2023 4:31 pm

    Hi from Canada. Interesting stuff! That bank on the corner is where I used to go with an adult colleague every Friday in my first job (1957) to collect enough cash to pay the employees at Vye's head office where I worked briefly. It was then called National Provincial Bank. Believe it merged with the Westminster Bank in the 1960's?

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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.

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