Showing posts with label Dumpton Cave. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dumpton Cave. Show all posts

Tuesday, 4 November 2008

The Hermit of Dumpton Cave

One of the pleasant aspects of publishing local history in the way that I do, printing what I need as I go, is that I don’t have to worry that worry that the book is in any sense saleable.

The book that I am putting the final touches to at the moment is pretty much a case in point, a very scarce Ramsgate item that very few people could possibly want.

Joseph Croom Petit born at Wingham Kent in 1742 he came to Ramsgate in 1820 and lived as a hermit in a cave at the rear of Hollicondane Tavern, on land that now belongs to St Lawrence College.

I have put up a few sample pages click here to read them it’s rather like the type of sermon that one would hope to sleep through.