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| Ramsgate Tunnels Underground Electricity Control Room |
Top left power distribution board. Bottom centre petrol generator. Right batteries. I am assuming that most of the time the tunnel lighting ran on mains power, from the look of it I would think 110 volt DC system with the mains charging the batteries. This would mean that when a bombing raid stopped Ramsgate town electricity supply, the lights in the tunnels would have stayed on. The generator would have been to keep the batteries charged during a prolonged power cut.
I think this control room would have been near to the Ramsgate Hospital tunnel entrance in Westcliff Road (up past Waitrose) The following photos are of what this part of the tunnel system looks like now.
Clifton Baths, these later (1930s) became The Lido Cliftonville Margate.
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| Clifton Baths |
To see what it looks like now here is a link to an Ilse of Thanet News article about it
This is part of my ongoing research into the early days of holidaying in Thanet, the picture is of a KCC postcard which they have dated 1836 and shows a paddle steamer at Broadstairs.
Here at Michaels Bookshop in Ramsgate a fairly quiet Monday morning after what was a very busy Saturday, so no blog post then and a fairly detailed history post today. Here is a link link the latest books we have had come in
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| Flowers outside Michael's Bookshop Ramsgate |
Yesterday we went to Turner Contemporary and the Hospice Bookshop in Margate
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