Immigration Control

Here in the bookshop today we had a visit from immigration control, apparently to see if we were letting out parts of the building to house illegal immigrants. They are apparently visiting all the shops and asking who lives in the flats above them, just telling them that we lived in the flat satisfied them, however after they went it did occur to me that perhaps not the people with flats full of illegal immigrants would admit to it.

It says on the back of the photo, Driver C Crow nigger mistral A Kirby 1920, I believe the location to be Minster as it’s part of a set of a Ramsgate charabanc operators pictures, that are going into the book Postcards of Ramsgate volume 4 that I am working on at the moment.

South Eastern Road Ramsgate

Having spent a large part of yesterday trying to make sense of and reply to the correspondence relating to my TDC complaint, see pervious post. I am now wondering how long it will take them to have courtesy to confirm they received it as I asked them to do, I copied the email to the chief executive and the leader so one would expect something.

Anyway what annoys me most is that it is time I could have spent working on local history publications and publishing local pictures online. There is an irony in that while the council are wasting so much money figuring out peculiar responses to such a simple complaint they are also doing there best to destroy two of the most cost effective local historic tourist attractions, Crampton Tower and the historic ships in Ramsgate Harbour.

One of the scarcest and most useful types of local pictures are those that show ordinary streets and buildings around the town, like the one above, the ones of the harbour and seafront outnumber them by hundreds to one.

Ramsgate Model Village

Some pictures of the model village today and there will be more to come soon, just one of our lost attractions. It occurs to me that pictures of old Ramsgate are a constant reminder of what has gone wrong.

Click here to view them

Old Ramsgate pictures

The bomb damage ones are of the WW1 zeppelin raid, I think rest are fairly self explanatory click here for the rest

Old Margate Postcards

Working under the principle that Margate’s need for solace is greatest at the moment, here are some more old pictures of the town click here to see them Once again too old to be copyright so do please use them to decorate any posting about Margate or anything else you want. I notice from the counter that has been on this blog for just under 2 weeks that about 100 visits a day seems to be about the norm, so best wishes too you all.