Showing posts with label Thanet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thanet. Show all posts
Monday, 24 April 2017

Pictures of The Viking Invasion of Thanet in 1949

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pictures should expand if you click on them. A much better Monday morning in the bookshop on the computer front mea...
Wednesday, 20 May 2009

Crazy waterworks in Thanet

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Opposite my bookshop is a fire hydrant and recently a chap appeared opened the inspection cover put a metal rod down the hole and listened t...
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008

Clubs and Societies Thanet

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Hello Michael,I have been developing a directory of all the Clubs and Societies in the Thanet area. As you obviously have an interest in the...
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Tuesday, 15 July 2008

Immigration Control

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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 ...
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Thursday, 29 May 2008

Health & Efficiency

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Peter Checksfield of Naked in Thanet, link on sidebar, has just commented on an old post of mine about local nudist beaches to the effect th...
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Sunday, 20 April 2008

Thanet Ground Water Quality

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Is Thanet’s drinking water safe? The following rather disquieting document was obtained through the freedom of information act. You would ha...
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Saturday, 5 April 2008

Naked in Thanet

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As you can see from the picture of Ramsgate in the 1700s Ramsgate has a long history of naturism that dates back to when the human species d...
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Friday, 14 March 2008

Thanet’s civic leaders

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I was looking through the 1937 guide to Broadstairs as one does and I noticed the picture above (click on it to enlarge) of the local civic ...
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Saturday, 5 January 2008

Map Madness

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I got sucked into one of those local history puzzles that emanated from the Thanet Life blog this week. The puzzle involved dating the map s...
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Monday, 26 November 2007

Footpaths of Thanet by Bob Simmonds

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Cedric had already asked if they knew of any attractive back passages in the area, before realising, to his horror, that the 'THANET WAN...
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Friday, 9 November 2007

Thanet’s tidal surge

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The tidal surge was fortunately a bit of a non-event here in Thanet Ramsgate only had a slightly higher tide than the spring tide back in S...