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Michael Cates
My travels yesterday were focused on Lovelys art shop in Northdown Road
and the Old Bank Bookshop in Margate
I wanted to Make the places look a bit dystopian
I went to visit the closing down sale of the Clarks shoe shop in Westwood Cross
On to Northdown Road
Riggers has now gone
Lunch at Café G
Here at Michael's Bookshop in Ramsgate we have been busy
Arrived in Ramsgate 23rd August 1927. Thomas Drake was a famous long=distance solo navigator in the 1920s and 30s
He was a naturalised US citizen from Seattle, who claimed to be a descendant of Sir Francis Drake. His transatlantic trip took about two years and he later crossed the Pacific. 'Pilgrim' was later wrecked on the Dutch coast but that didn't stop Drake.
Michael Child Might be worth adding that he was from Kent - Gravesend. He was 64 when he completed the Atlantic crossing and Pilgrim was lost the following year.
He claimed to have built the boat from driftwood collected on the Seattle shore...
Michael Child: CAPTAIN DRAKE: born Thomas William Drake December quarter 1863 Albion Parade Gravesend Kent, illegitimate child of Ann Curtis who later married a Thomas Charlton of Faversham. Address both 1871 & 1881 census, Muller's Lane Ospringe Faversham. Drake shown as stepson of Thos. Charlton. Sometime between 1881 & 1891 Thomas Drake leaves for America, his home for the rest of his life. The so-called 'mystery of the man' who sailed the Atlantic April-June 1927 exacerbated by the fact that his voyage aboard Pilgrim covered by dozens of English newspapers upon his arrival at Plymouth in June 1927 and Dover in August 1927, EXCEPT that it would appear that Ramsgate's local press totally ignored the story. Margate's Isle of Thanet Gazette published a 4 line coverage, and similar scant coverage at other Kent towns like Dover, Maidstone, Whitstable, and Sevenoaks, but not Ramsgate! My information from a number of national newspaper archives, as well as findmypast data.
Next the ramble and the photos, lots of monochrome because of "boys and their toys"
Next a few historic pictures of Northdown Road
On the art front there was only one freehand pen sketch that I was happy with this week, any yes you can say "what a load of rubbish"
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| Jonny Rotten pen sketch |
Here at Michael's Bookshop in Ramsgate we have been busy
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