Showing posts with label Shops. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shops. Show all posts
Wednesday, 22 January 2014

Blackburn’s bite the bookseller.

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Coincidence is a strange thing, first this morning I received the picture above with the following email “ Dear Michael, saw this on ...
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Monday, 17 December 2012

Get your hair cut! Two new shops in Ramsgate.

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The shop next door to my bookshop, which has changed hands more times that I can remember in the last few years, has reopened as a ba...
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Wednesday, 5 September 2012

Margate and empty shops, a Midweek Ramble

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 I guess the main local news item this week was that Margate has the most empty shops in the UK, which I guess means that despite The Turn...
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Thursday, 15 December 2011

Day off ramble, Tracey Emin, Westwood Cross, Ramsgate Town Centre.

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Tracey Emin has just got the highly prestigious post of Eranda Professor of Drawing at The Royal Academy Schools of art. One of my proble...
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Wednesday, 23 November 2011

Three New Shops in Ramsgate High Street, some thoughts and photos

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Ramsgate’s self regeneration seems to be moving on a pace despite local government, by this I mean most of our council owned prime sites hav...
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Thursday, 19 May 2011

David Cameron and a plea for UK towns

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David Cameron Retailing’s not such a good thing- It has its little ways. And now sometimes no one buys much For days and days and days. A l...
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Wednesday, 23 September 2009

Gone for a Burton

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Burton’s in Ramsgate High Street have closed. Once again beware of big chains that are decamping and damaging our towns.
Monday, 6 July 2009

Shop activity in Ramsgate from the 5p book up and some thoughts on competing with internet booksellers.

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With the recession biting more severely by the week one of the more active sections in my bookshop is the recession section where all of the...
Wednesday, 10 June 2009

Ramsgate Regeneration

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Having just posted the press release about the opening of Harvey’s Fish Market & Oyster Bar on Ramsgate’s Royal Harbour at http://thanet...
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Saturday, 4 April 2009

New shops opening in Ramsgate.

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Although a few large shops have closed recently in the centre of Ramsgate, most notably Woolworth, where my bookshop is on the edge of the t...
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Monday, 26 January 2009

One to go at Westwood Cross ?

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With Barretts shoe shops in administration, it looks like we will see the closure of their Westwood Cross shop. I know that there has been a...
Friday, 12 December 2008

Manchester Congestion Charge

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The government offered the people £3bn to vote for what it thought was good for them and the people turned them down. Here in Thanet we have...
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Wednesday, 5 November 2008

Retail Recession Ramblings

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There is a rumour doing the rounds that the council is going to give Margate shopkeepers some sort of reduction in their business rates, I d...
Tuesday, 29 July 2008

Property Business Recession

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I was going to do a reflections from the book trade post and as a lot of this comes from talking to customers when I should be working, not ...
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Tuesday, 15 July 2008

Meanderings of a confused shopkeeper

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I have published some pictures of shops and shopping in Ramsgate for you all to enjoy, they come from one of my reprints of old guides, Rams...
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Monday, 30 June 2008

More Model village and shopping experience

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I post with some trepidation as my last post on this subject prompted a senior councillor to comment that he thought Ramsgate was horrible p...
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Thursday, 29 November 2007

Endangered species

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Most of us live in towns, it is has been the favored human environment for many years, and it think we have reached the point where our spec...
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