Photos of Ramsgate and Margate during the 1950s and The Second Sex book recommendation

 Photos of Ramsgate and Margate during the 1950s. So with the three Ramsgate photos I am guessing the date based on the clothes people are wearing and the lights on the clock House, which would either be for the festival of Britain in 1951 or the coronation in 1953. These are part of the batch of old Ramsgate photos that I bought over the counter here at Michael's Bookshop in Ramsgate a couple of weeks ago. These were from the relations of someone who had just died. The two Margate ones are from the Mick Twyman collection and these were handed to me on a CD by Andy Barrett who used to own the Belgium Bar. He gave me instructions to publish them on the internet so people could see them. The two Margate photos are labeled the naming of the North Foreland. That would be the name of the lifeboat I assume. The fallen lighthouse 1953, that would have been caused by the Great storm of 1953. This was a tidal surge storm where the low barometric pressure related to the storm causes the sea to rise.

Next a video about the book The second sex  by Simone de Beauvoir with instructions to get the Ebook for free online. This book is probably the most important feminist classic and forms the basis of feminism, to me it’s a must read for both sexes. 

Here is the link get the Ebook free online https://archive.org/stream/1949SimoneDeBeauvoirTheSecondSex/1949_simone-de-beauvoir-the-second-sex_djvu.txt

Some steam engineering marine engineering and model engineering books in the bookshop.

With my recent coverage of The Steam Tug Cervia, see http://thanetonline.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Steam%20Tug%20Cervia%20in%20Ramsgate%20Harbour and the Dunkirk evacuation model tug display see http://thanetonline.blogspot.com/2010/05/dunkirk-evacuation-model-tug-display-at.html I have been reading up on steam and model engineering.

This means I have been reading some of the books about this in my bookshop, I have just photographed excerpts from some of them to amuse other people with this sort of interest see http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/510b/id22.htm

Looking at the post so far it does look as though it’s about building a somewhat eccentric and in some cases rather expensive gentleman’s library, so here are some pictures of other arts and crafts books on the bookshop selves today http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/610/id4.htm none should be expensive, very few over £10 per book with an average price about £6.

I hope these will have a somewhat broader appeal, selling engineering and craft books as I do it occurs to me that this is for the most part an area where sexism still flourishes, with nearly all of the books about fabric related craft being bought by females and nearly al of those about wood or metalwork being bought by males.

Staying with a craft related theme I repaired the staircase between the shop and the flat above over the bank holiday weekend. This is something that I hadn’t done before and started by trying to find out how to do this using the internet, after some exasperation going from site to site trying to sell me a new staircase, once again I resorted to the books in the bookshop for the information.