Out and about with me photos, including art exhibition at Nice Things, some loose tiles on The Royal, the slipway stuck?

 A couple of phone pictures of the exhibition at Nice Things.

More pictures of this when you get to the link to my camera card further down.

 Bits of tile on the pavement are sometimes an indicator that you may wish to pass by on the other side

in case the rest of it lands on you. I have reported it to TDC out of hours, so if it lands on your head please haunt them and not me.

Here is the link to the rest of the photos

The Naughty sorry ahem --- The Nautical and Naval Chronicle for 1840 says

That's 178 years of getting stuck to the entertainment of the locals and visitors alike, and to the annoyance of the people who unsitck it and swear by/at it.

Whether it's stuck at the moment or undergoing maintenance with the fine tuning sledgehammer or even a small charge I don't really know, it just isn't where I would expect it to be.

 This is Moses Shipyard Ramsgate

 Some storm

   I think this is late 1940s

Margate next

 This one is of customers being taken to their bathing machines

And this Margate Marine Parade back in the day before the day.

On the bookshop front, Christmas shopping continues and I expect a fairly active week here is the link to the books that went out yesterday

Christmas present shopping wise I have had a fairly difficult time this year, fortunately we have a few small and recently published local books which work well with posting.

If you come to the bookshop to buy books for someone who has a collection of books on one subject or by one author take photos with your phone first.

Say if they collect books about smuggling here is a photo of the smuggling books in the bookshop as an example of what I mean and it is better to get them books they haven’t got than ones the have. 

Lunch in Wetherspoons aka The Royal Victoria Pavilion in Ramsgate

Light lunch, reasonable price, decent view, cross section of other people, relaxed atmosphere, perhaps a bit noisy due to so many people.  lonely planet now has a review here is the link   

Old photographs of Ramsgate

After my altercation during my attempt to photograph Ramsgate library I went through the photographs on the computer looking for old pictures of the library. I have found 3 so far click here to look at them I also have put a few other ones up that may interest you all. I am sorry to say that I have rather lost track of which photographs I have published so apologies for any repetitions. The sailing ship leaving the harbour is the Bounty, built in Sunderland in 1875 and originally named Alastor she arrived in Ramsgate in 1946. the buildings by the west pier are part of Moses shipyard. You will also note in the two pictures of the inside of the library that the people shown are reading, something I hope we will still be able to there when the council and tourist information office move in.

More Confused Ramblings From the Book Trade

The Christmas shopping rush is here again which is always pleasant in the bookshop as you feel most of the shoppers are buying people something that they actually want, or the person who will receive it as a present will want, this is especially so with the local history books. This is not particularly a money thing as from the customers point of view none of the books I produce are over £10 and from my point of view the profit margin is fairly small. However in terms of giving local people a bit of extra enjoyment over Christmas it is very satisfying.

I have just published some more old pictures of the harbour to the web with some interesting ones of the area west of the west pier where Moses’s shipyard was, I am hoping to get time soon to produce a book of pictures of the harbour, at the moment most of my time being spent either manufacturing enough copies of the books to keep up with the seasonal demand or helping people to work out which will be the best books for their friends and family.
Something that is also interesting this year is that I am finding many people are coming to the conclusion that a secondhand book makes an environmentally friendly Christmas present.