Ramsgate, Margate and Broadstairs Pictures Click to expand them

 

Starting with some Ramsgate pictures from the Tom Stokes collection  

I think this one is The Hugin Viking longship replica but I couldn't get much out of lightening the picture

All five of these these roughly the same view, below Ramsgate's tidal ball before the construction of the Military Parade red brick arches  

On to the Mick Twyman collection 

Construction of the Winter Gardens Cliftonville 

A Mystery (untitled windmill) as it was in the Mick Twyman collection I assumed near Margate, online artificial intelligence says Fiveash Mill, Northfleet although I am not sure I entirely believe that either. So what do you think?

   

Beale's Bathing Machine, the figure being carried is presumably receiving medical treatment (ducking by professional dunkers)  

These next three are storm damage to Margate pier 

This middle one says 1953

This the site of the Lido

and finally Broadstairs

Here at Michaels Bookshop in Ramsgate we do have Nick Evans's new book A Salute To Margate's Winter Gardens, just in here is the link to the rest of the just ins the usual eclectic collection of secondhand books that you would expect to appeal to the reading population of Ramsgate, or perhaps you wouldn't.

I am reading my way through Nevil Shute at the moment, so I'm mostly back in the days of the world wars and between. I presume that people in the 1960s called them the good old days rather in the way that people today call the 1950s, 1960s and 70s the good old days. 

As I was here in Ramsgate and Margate during the late 1960s and a lot of the 1970s engaged in the tourist business for a lot of the time I know only too well that people here thought the 1960s and 70s to be the bad days and looked back on the 1930s and 40s as the good old days, particularly WW2.