1872 Ramsgate Street Map, a quick sketch in Turner Contemporary Margate where I view "Anya Gallaccio: preserve" exhibition.

 

1872 Ramsgate Street Map

Here where I work at Michaels Bookshop in Ramsgate we sell reprints of some historic local maps to compliment our stock of local books about The Isle of Thanet. Yesterday I went to Margate and bought the map in the picture above. 

Here is a link to what I hope is a bigger size of the picture of the map

We already sell a slightly different 1872 street map of  Ramsgate and I hope that when I have got this one properly scanned and printed it will add the the range of historic maps we have available. At the moment, if you want to enjoy the map then this phone photo through glass is the best there is. There are also some other versions of 1872 OS maps on the National Library of Scotland website. 1872 was the year that the survey was done so 1872 is a date that appears a lot on our maps.

When it comes to historic street maps that we sell and you may want to put on your wall, a lot depends on when your house was built and where your house is located within the town. 

We sell these historic maps rolled up and as they are too difficult (expensive) to post you have to come here to Michaels Bookshop in Ramsgate to look at them and possibly buy them 

With historic maps of Margate there are several on The Margate Local History Website Paper sheet maps of Margate are a bit thin on the ground and I promise to do some eventually.

The copyright situation with historic maps is:-

Maps published by United Kingdom government departments are covered by Crown Copyright, which usually lasts for 50 years from the end of the year in which the map was published. For example, Crown Copyright on a map published in December 1970 would usually pass out of copyright in January 2021. For a map published in January 1971, copyright would usually expire in January 2022. Maps produced by Ordnance Survey or the UK Hydrographic Office are covered by Crown Copyright.

Copyright in maps published by commercial companies and private institutions usually lasts for 70 years from the end of the year in which the map was published. For example, maps produced by the John Bartholomew & Son, Harvey Maps or Stirling Surveys, are usually in copyright for 70 years from the end of the year in which the map was published.

Copyright in maps made by named individuals usually lasts for 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the last remaining author of the work died. For works with unknown authorship created before 1 August 1989, copyright will expire on 31 December 2039 if the work was created before 1 January 1969; otherwise, copyright expires 70 years from the end of the year in which the work was created.

On to visiting Turner Contemporary art gallery where the main exhibition is called Anya Gallaccio: preserve. here is the link to the page about it on Turner Contemporaries website 

Pictures of the exhibition will expand if you click a bit.

I am afraid that I don't understand contemporary art very well and this exhibition smells strongly of rotting vegetation, so I didn't stay very long.

I had a bowl of soup and a cup of tea in Turner Contemporary Café, the quality was OK and it set me back a tenner, which I thought could have been worse. 

I painted a quick sketch in my sketchbook so I could remember the visit  
 

Old Ramsgate and Margate photos, I visit Turner Contemporary in Margate and the rest of my day off.

 

Not sure of the dates for The Red Arrows over Margate

Not sure if the G stands for Galway and as you see a fairly large crew rowing out instead of a Ramsgate fishing smack which would have had a crew of 2 and been towed out by the tug.

I woke up yesterday thinking about art

did a very quick sketch in the style of Tiepolo

Eventually we headed off to Margate

Turner Contemporary, the cafe has changed hands since I last used it and is much more affordable

Salad, croissant, hot chocolate, coffee £14.70 very good quality and value with the croissant falling into the excellent bracket.

I liked the jolly colors on the window at turner contemporary

The main exhibition at the moment is much more rather jolly decoration or fabric craft then anything I would consider to be art.

Perhaps the problem is that I don't really understand this sort of art.

What the gallery lacks at the moment is any small exhibition of high quality conventional art. There is no small exhibition of Turner watercolours this time. No major sculpture. I'm not really sure that the council is getting good value for money for the amount they are subsidising the gallery

Children were very busy making stuff for Margate carnival

Turner Contemporary art gallery shop had some unexpected items

secondhand VHS tapes

secondhand vinyl

secondhand books behind glass. E.G. Turner Contemporary are selling Andy Warhol's Exposures for £80 here at Michael's in Ramsgate we have it on the shelf for £9.99 eBay have it for just over £13

We bought some books and went home.

This morning I woke up thinking about music

did a quick sketch of Jimmy Hendrix and now I am here at work in Michael's Bookshop in Ramsgate writing this blog post

Here is the link to the pictures of the books we have just put out