Pictures of Inside Pugin’s House and Inside Pugin’s Church in Ramsgate

Apologies first the whole contents of my camera card, I don’t use a flash when I visit historic buildings, so these are all hand held pictures, in many cases it was too dark for the camera’s sensors so many are also manually focused, hence several blurry ones.

I haven’t put more than 100 pictures on a page so they should load reasonably quickly, we started at the café by Westcliff boating pool, less then £20 for food and drink for me my wife and two of my children, there is also a free playground.

This the playground that is, enabled me to sketch the view from where I sat to eat my lunch and even get a little bit of it painted.

A bit of a walk along the cliff while my children cycled about, here are the pictures relating to that http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/laptop412b/index.htm and on to Pugin’s Grange, the pictures of the inside start about half way down this page http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/laptop412b/id3.htm more here http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/laptop412b/id4.htm and here http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/laptop412b/id5.htm and here http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/laptop412b/id6.htm

Then on to Pugin’s church now to be a shrine, always inclined to give a church a bit of a boost, pictures here http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/laptop412b/id7.htm

I was in the professional god bothering business once so I only really understand the rules for Anglican contemplative religiouss’, there is a sense in which they don’t really have an individual identity, if you look at this last lot some were taken in St Augustine’s graveyard, the ones for the monks start DOM, when they have filled up one grave with DOM and one stone with what their bodies were once called, they start on another one. 
http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/laptop412b/id8.htm

Some questions for the observant next.    

 What date and country of origin to you reckon this stained glass is.

 The house is gothic revival, what are the marble pillars and mantle doing there.

Ramsgate Heritage Open Days 2010 10-12 September and I admit to a persecution complex

Some of the historic buildings in Ramsgate are open to the public tomorrow and this weekend, details and links to photographs of the buildings below.

Montefiore Synagogue & Mausoleum open Sunday 12 September 9.30am-2pm, this is the building with the shortest opening time this weekend, so I recommend you plan your visit around the time this one is open. It really isn’t one to miss, here are the links to the pictures and information about it.
http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/Montefiore/index.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/clock/index.htm

http://thanetonline.blogspot.com/2009/09/montefiore-synagogue-and-mausoleum-open.html

St George's Church, Saturday: 1000-1800, Tower Tours 1130 & 1230 & 1430 & 1530

Sunday: 1200-1600, Tower Tours 1200 & 1400 & 1500

Links to the pictures

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/laptop710/id4.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/laptop710/id5.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/laptop710/id6.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/laptop710/id7.htm

The Grange Ramsgate Friday: 1000-1600

Saturday: 1000-1600

Sunday: 1000-1600

Links to the pictures

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/grange/index.htmhttp://www.michaelsbookshop.com/grange2008/

Now we come to the bit about having a few toys lose in the attic, I suppose the best thing in a case like this is to admit to the problem in the first instance.

The other day one of our own dear councillors and a member of our esteemed cabinet seemed to think I was developing delusions about the council; “I think the mistake you make is in believing that every aspect of life is micro-managed by the council” see http://thanetonline.blogspot.com/2010/09/local-councillors-blogs-and-beware-of.html

I believe the trickcyclist people call this querulant delusions, this is something like a persecution complex, well today I have to admit to once again thinking that Thanet District Council are persecuting Ramsgate.

I looked at the council’s homepage and although I could see an article there about Heritage Open Days in Margate, these querulant delusions completely prevented me from seeing the one about Heritage Open Days in Ramsgate.

My Therapist Johann Christian Reil, has produced the following therapy schedule.

First plunging me (the lunatic) into a bath full of live eels..

And then showing me a Katzenklavier, or cat-clavichord (pictured above), an instrument played by pressing keys attached to nails which in turn strike the tails of a series of cats arranged with care so as to miaow in tonally sequenced pain.”

I have been having the therapy and I am expecting to see the Ramsgate article appear there at any moment.

Update I am afraid that things are getting worse I have just suffered the delusion that the council’s Twitter update about “Shop Local in Thanet” says only, shop local in Margate, see http://twitter.com/ThanetCouncil/statuses/24023311694

This sort of thing is taking its toll on the eels and the cats.

Quex bell tower and Pugin’s Grange open today.

Just in case you were wondering what to do today a couple of local buildings that are normally closed are open to the public, as far as I know entry is free.

This is part of The 2009 Heritage Open Days see http://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/directory/laa/Thanet/

The Grange is well worth a look at click on the links for pictures (not very good) of previous open days
http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/grange/index.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/grange2008/

you may also find these pictures of the collapse of Pugin’s gallery in 1947 interesting.
http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/collapse/

It is some time since I went up the bell tower at Quex Park and if I have any pictures I can’t find them

The Open Grange

Just to remind you that Pugin’s old home, The Grange, is open to the public this coming weekend. Here are a few pictures I took of it sorry that many are pretty awful and the web pages are published sideways.