Margate caves then onto McDonald's and E Turner Tea + Ramsgate Tunnels 2010

We visited Margate caves today, I have often speculated as to what they were originally for. My guess would be part of some sort of 18th century industrial operation they are very close to the site that Turner the famous artist painted a picture of what appears to me to be Tinning Works.

With chalk the main candidates in the mid 1700s would be glassworks or paperworks and i would guess with sand available nearby, most likely a glassworks.

Perhaps the Flaig Glassworks started there did Margate ever have a "glass cone"? one to look out for in old pictures perhaps.

the deep brackish were probably it's always been to near the sea freshwater and as part of such an early sight seems a bit of an unlikely one and I don't think anyone lived in that part in Margate that time full stop my guess would be some operation that required a lot of lime because it may have been cut out tourist attraction hard to say which York.

Link to the rest of the Margate Caves Photos

So Thursday in Margate We bought some books for the bookshop and and had another look at the situation in the High Street which seems to be improving a lot.

You know they say England is tea drinking country but honestly we reaching a point where while you can get masses of different and exotic coffees to get a known make of tea you have to go to McDonald's this was something I couldn't achieve in turner contemporary.

So down to Margate Mcdonald's for named Tea

Or is it up

Actually drinkable, I am also considering food options to help mitigate climate change so less cow.

More of the Margate photos from McDonald's to Turner Contemporary

And of course the new Turner Score Note

There seemed to be a striking resemblance

to the watercolour sketch I did for blog post in 2011

I managed to interact with an exhibit called Welcome Chous


onwards

Bookshop wise we have been fairly busy, part of the reason that I haven't posted a blog since the middle of the week

links to the books we put out on:-
Wednesday 

frIday
satErday

Of course we now have a new Thanet Council leader and administration, I would say mostly because the council manage to forget Ramsgate. Partly though because the councilors seem to be focussed on bringing back 1970. While this may appeal to some of the older voters...

Back underground but in Ramsgate Tunnels in 1910, click to expand

 This last image relates to one of the comments