It’s one of the highest wosisnames in Ramsgate, I am not sure how a competition between St George’s, Kennedy or Trove would pan out.
The tower on the Granville was built to hold the water tanks for the various baths available in the spa there when it was an hotel. When it was first built the tower was a lot taller than it is now, the height was reduced in 1900, I guess this was to stop it from collapsing.
The tower was used as a wartime lookout; some of the graffiti certainly dates from WW2, some of it is very rude but fortunately was done by the wicked youth of yesterday so I doubt there will be adverse comment about it.
If you want to know more about the Granville I recommend coming here to Michael's Bookshop in Ramsgate and browsing the two books we sell that are about it.
The camera is fairly manual and was hand held so please excuse the variable photo quality.
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