Easter Quex and Ramsgate pictures and a ramble

We spent this afternoon at The Powell Cotton Museum at Quex in Birchington, please appreciate I am working backwards in time with this post, the last batch of pictures will come first.

While I am explaining myself, I should point out with these long batches of photographs that my normal method when publishing pictures is to dump the contents of my camera card directly onto the internet and view them from there. This means that I often haven’t looked at the pictures properly when I publish the associated blog post. Here are the Quex pictures  

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/netbok411/id12.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/netbok411/id13.htm

This weekend a combination of the friends of Quex and the Broadstairs Dickens week people have taken over and are offering a Victorian experience with penty to amuse children. Ours were amused.

This morning’s walk was up the east pier and I took a few pictures, here they are

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I will add some more to this post later, if I get a chance. 

  

The Crew of the New Moss Rose

There are many pictures of the Moss Rose and the New Moss Rose in Ramsgate harbour from where they took people for pleasure trips, however this is the first one I have come across of the crew.

Margate Pier Foundation

One of my readers sent me this interesting sheet from the plans for Margate harbour arm, as you see it is held in place by piles driven into the ground. This is a different construction method to Ramsgate’s harbour arms, which have granite foundations embedded in the chalk.

Does anyone know what the piles are made of?

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