I think most of these pictures show "The Ramsgate Festival of Light" in 1951. This was done for the festival of Britain.
Here in the bookshop we have just got most of the Christmas decorations up.
I am very optimistic about the future of Ramsgate town centre as the council has made it one of the designated areas for High Street auction powers.
This means that the long-term empty shops in Ramsgate can be subject to rental auctions where the landlords have to rent out the buildings at the auction price.
Obviously this hardly costs the council anything and should hopefully bring the town centre rents down to an amount that's related to the current town centre footfall.
That said, we sold about 100 books a day when I opened the bookshop here in 1987 and we still sell about 100 books a day now in 2025.
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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.