Ramsgate Motor Museum AKA Westcliffe Hall.

So the first picture dates from when Westcliff Hall had just opened. If you look on the back you can see the postcard was posted in 1919 and Westcliff hall opened in 1918, so this is before the outside was landscaped in quite the same way as it was later. The rest of the pictures are of inside Ramsgate Motor Museum and were taken by me in 2004. So I think Ramsgate Motor Museum opened in 1985 and closed in 2005. My understanding was that the owners couldn't get the support they wanted from the council and so they gave up and sold the cars at auction. This was a great loss to Ramsgate as it had a lot of rare motor vehicles that drew people from out of the area.

Ramsgate High Street.

The first picture dates from 1917 by the postmark although my guess is it was taken before world war 1. The second picture is from 2015 and the third picture from 1987. Next I have added the pages for the High Street from the 1974 Street directory. You can buy a variety of cheap reprints of Thanet directories dating from 1849 here at Michael's Bookshop in Ramsgate. We also stock various original directories these vary in price from about £20 to about £300 depending on what we've got at any given time, the date and the condition. Secondhand bookselling is a complicated business and the prices both when we are buying a book and selling a book are mostly based on scarcity. Lastly, some thoughts on social media. I do my best to post something related to local history on Facebook every day the bookshop is open. This is something that I do between customers and fits well with the time I have available. I do try to spread the post across the local Facebook groups and all in all it gets a moderate response. I have now started posting mostly about books on tiktok and this produces a much larger response so I will try to do some local history posts there where I think they will reach a much larger audience.