tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post3120084957717781494..comments2024-03-13T10:32:22.656+00:00Comments on thanetonline: Sunday Gas about Ramsgate Gasworks.Michael Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499435016469020417noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-22790434298761095942010-05-04T09:46:18.258+01:002010-05-04T09:46:18.258+01:0015.52 All of Aldi supermarket and part of the car ...15.52 All of Aldi supermarket and part of the car park is on an old gasworks site the other part of the car park is on St Georges Burial Ground.<br /><br />Thanks Phil I noticed that I couldn’t copy the image of the map from where you had published the whole map so this is very useful for my file on the gasworks’.Michael Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09499435016469020417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-73473313856097727282010-05-02T18:54:54.811+01:002010-05-02T18:54:54.811+01:00This map section may help: Gas Works in 1872
The ...This map section may help: <a href="http://ramsgatehistory.com/documents/gas_works_1872.jpg" rel="nofollow">Gas Works in 1872</a><br /><br />The full map can be seen at the <a href="http://ramsgatehistory.com/1872_map_index.html" rel="nofollow">Ramsgate Remembered Website</a>Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00081026907222344795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-63932287688966468372010-05-02T18:31:21.509+01:002010-05-02T18:31:21.509+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00081026907222344795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-18516309147623368642010-05-02T17:00:36.994+01:002010-05-02T17:00:36.994+01:00Aldi supermarket & car park is built on what w...Aldi supermarket & car park is built on what was St. George's new burial ground. My ggg grandparents were buried there in 1858 & 1870.<br /><br />A few years ago, I contacted the Vicar of St. George's, as I couldn't work out exactly where they were buried & he told me that the car park area - which was wasteland when I was a kid in the 70s - still had earth graves under it & because of that, nothing more than a car park could be built on top.<br /><br />I believe he also said that when they wanted to build on the land - not sure if it was the garage or the supermarket - some of the graves were excavated & the stones placed around the wall of the churchyard. As far as I can remember, the stones have been there for years & years, so maybe it was the garage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-52764497668972936832010-05-02T15:52:22.539+01:002010-05-02T15:52:22.539+01:0014.21 A mass grave sounds a bit unlikely as at the...14.21 A mass grave sounds a bit unlikely as at the time of the great plague this would have been isolated farmland, I also think that the whole site would have been heavily excavated as the gasworks developed there over about 60 years.Michael Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09499435016469020417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-13445036353220343622010-05-02T14:21:15.263+01:002010-05-02T14:21:15.263+01:00Michael, I know that during the demolition of the ...Michael, I know that during the demolition of the old Ford dealership/building of Aldi, work was halted for a fair while. I had been told it was due to the workmen uncovering a mass grave, from the plague. Perhaps this was true, or they might have been doing the decotamination work you talk about here??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com