thanetonline

News, Local history and Thanet issues from Michael's Bookshop in Ramsgate see www.michaelsbookshop.com I publish over 200 books about the history of this area click here to look at them.

Monday, 28 September 2026

Old Thanet Photos and Thomas Hardy Books

›

The first picture obviously Broadstairs looks to me to be around the 1920s but this is only a guess. The next one is the Cameo Cinema 127...

Friday, 25 September 2026

Some Ramsgate Harbour pictures today and Beano books

›

The first picture shows the the sailors church without the smack boys home. It has to be before 1881 when the smack boys home was built and ...

Wednesday, 23 September 2026

Some pictures of Moses’s shipyard in Ramsgate.

›

This was roughly where Port Ramsgate is now. This shipyard made the Ramsgate fishing boats. If you want to know more about this you may wan...

Monday, 21 September 2026

A few pictures of Ramsgate pubs.

›

So starting with the General Joffre, named after a French general in world war 1 who was commanding chief of the French forces on the Weste...

Saturday, 19 September 2026

A few Ramsgate and Margate pictures and some late 1800s Ramsgate adverts

›

. I think the first picture is a Sanger's parade with the photo taken looking up Ramsgate High Street. The next one is Margate looking ...

Friday, 18 September 2026

Photos from the tower of The Granville I took in 2011.

›

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 to...

›

Home

View web version

Contributors

Michael Child
Michaelsbookshop