Wendy Jones York Street Gallery in Ramsgate

The current exhibition is by Wendy Jones
The exhibition runs until 3rd October
Gallery open normal hours.

Old local photos bit more watercolour and a bit of Manston stuff.

 I am getting a bit better with the lighting where I have moved my desk to and using the camera in my very cheap smartphone.

 I will try and sort the worst of them out later

While I am supportive of a local passenger airport I don't support building a giant airfreight hub at Manston.

I do  Manston posts from time to time starting with https://thanetonline.blogspot.com/2008/08/infratill-v-gateway.html over 10 years ago and if I have remembered to tag them they all come up by clicking on this link https://thanetonline.blogspot.com/search/label/Manston%20Airport and every time you get to the bottom of a page clicking on the “Older Posts” link there.

At the moment there is a fire at Westwood near to the airport at Manston, what is burning there is 6,000 bales of rubbish, plastics, paper, cardboard, labels, and other corrugated materials, so apart from the fossil fuel derived plastics which will be about as nasty as kerosene, probably not as bad for you as aviation kerosene.

I reckon that one bale is about  tonne or less and that frankly if you have smelt the fire at all over the past few days then the deadly particulate matter from jet engines at Manston will come your way, reduce your life expectancy and increase your chance of getting dementia.

You can't smell particulate matter and the smallest,  2.5pm also called 2.5 micron particulates travel through the air for miles.

I think every cargo plane movement at Manston will burn at least 3 tonnes of fuel on the ground at Manston, this is based on the planes and plane engines that RiverOak say they are going to use in their application documents.

If you have read their application you would have to have read about 400 pages a day since they submitted their 11,000 page application around the beginning of the month, so if anyone says the have, they may be being economical with the truth.

The absolute minimum number of freight movements to qualify for a DCO is 10,000 so 1 tonne for the ground movement and 2 tonnes on the runway means 30,000 tonnes of aviation kerosene burnt per year here in Thanet.

Taking the, less than 6,000 tonne fire at Westwood and comparing it, my first thought is how much will burn and how much have the fire brigade managed to put out.

On a more cheerful note the weather was so nice today that I had my brunch outside on the sundeck of The Royal Victoria Pavilion today

 Not much progress with my watercolour from that seat there as I have a lot on at the moment.

This is the link to the photos of the books we put out in the bookshop today

This is the link to the photos I took at lunchtime

Old photos of Ramsgate, Margate and Broadstairs, some of Ramsgate this week, even a bit of painting

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Yesterday being cancelled due to, what was it? Rain stopped play, lack of interest; not sure really. Anyway I moved my desk at home and now am playing with light in the hope I can set things up so I can take photos of photos with my phone. 

Better/normal service soon and I will try to rephotograph the worst ones later on.

While photos apparently never lie, taking them of paintings produces different results depending on the light  

 This watercolour painting of Ramsgate from Wetherspoons is a bit of a draft one which I keep adding to over lunch there when I sit inside round the end of the balcony.

Fairly busy day in the bookshop today

this the link to the pictures of the books we put out

It looks as though the hydraulic rams for Ramsgate Harbour Crosswall bridge and flap gate have arrived.

Here is the link to the Ramsgate photos I took yesterday and today 

Maps and Death in Ramsgate and Margate

This 1934 map of Ramsgate should enlarge if you click on it, if it doesn't get big enough to read the roads I will work out something else. Like this perhaps

I have had a few issues with FaceBook recently, well who hasn't, with me it's been putting something on the bookshop website so it's big enough to be useful and Facebook deleting it from their site if I put the link to it in a comment there.

I think some sort of robotic reader at Facebook thinks that because mine is a bookshop website I am trying to get a bit of free advertising so if I put a link to a large picture in a Facebook comment it automatically deletes it.

  Some time ago I bought a hand coloured version of the 1849 map of Ramsgate and have subsequently developed various strategies to share it with other people.

One of these was to publish it onto the bookshop website as a very big picture

Here is the link to the map  

And another one to the same map in a different place

So I have 2 maps published on two different websites and I may well see what Facebook's robot thinks.

For anyone who is having difficulty with this you can just come into the the bookshop here in Ramsgate and buy the map on a large sheet of paper

I am in the book business but the death business interests me too. Back in the dim and distant past I was in the religious business, in fact I was called "a religious" and down the road there was a convent fullish of other religious. Back then the nuns there were getting older, so periodically one would die and the community I was part of would go to the funeral. They didn't need a hearse but had a hand drawn bier to get the successful - death being part of the goal in religious football - from the convent chapel to the convent cemetery a winding steeply sloping path thought the woods. I half expected to see HAMMER writ large across the sky.  This Margate undertakers calling card or advert has a certain appeal and possibly similar evocations.

I think a more lively and cheerful next this is the Lido Cliftonville in the mid 50s

Sorry there was no blog post yesterday I ran out of time.

Castling with care in Whitstable and Margate 90s and 60s Ramsgate

 Starting with these two 1994 Ramsgate pictures of the bit of the town that is seeing some major changes

 So am I, that is buying books here at the moment,

 This is 1968 around the time I first had a boat in Ramsgate and first worked on boats in the harbour

 I am a bit obsessed with castles today although I guess few would realise this is a photo of 'Hawarden Castle' c1920, as well as Margate pier - different people see things in different ways at different times.

Auntie Google says: Built as German sailing vessel Emma Linnemann for Reederei Hermann Linnemann, Hamburg. 1910 renamed Columbus for Claus Dreyer, Bremen. The ship was seized at Antwerp when the First World War broke out and was blocked in the harbour. After the war the ship was returned and converted to a motor merchant. From 1922 to 1923, she was owned by Carl Joh. Klingenberg & Co, Bremen and then by the Atlantic Reederei AG, Bremen. 1924 sold to Britain and renamed Hawarden Castle for W. Worall, Chester.

On 13 September 1939 the Hawarden Castle (Master William Worrall, DSC) left Nieuport and was reported missing thereafter without a trace. The ship probably hit a mine laid on 5 September by U-17 east of South Foreland

 We were off in Whitstable and Herne Bay buying books for the bookshop today

 Lunchtime is often difficult, the combination of reasonable food, somewhere with an interesting view to eat it, paint and some bit of free or cheap all weather entertainment, nearby parking, clean toilet. This is related to having produced something at the end of the day, recorded it on the blog as other people would perhaps write a diary. Turner Contemporary pulls this off in Margate, the cathedral and adjacent Chocolate Cafe in Canterbury, In Whitstable it's Whitstable Castle.

The result in a

 cheap sketchbook from The Works

Pot of tea, bacon and cheese roll around a tenner, the car park is free as is the entry to the castle and grounds, which are a bit municipal.

Here is the link to the content of my camera's SD card, mostly the castle, which of course isn't a castle in a defensive sense and I think was built as a decorative family home.

Bookshop wise this is the link to the pictures of the books we put out yesterday