Mystery Photos, Yesterday's answers

q1 where in Thanet?

 q2 which Thanet car park?

 q3 two temporary homes for The Ramsgate Society, do you know where they were located?

Yesterday's answers

 Ramsgate model village The Regency in the background

Ramsgate model village Van Gogh in the background then, Churchill Tavern now.

This was when they were putting in the surface drainage pipe for the Pleasurama development about 10 years ago.  They saw what looked like a handy sluice in the side of the harbour and decided to try and get it open. It is one of the old sewage outfall pipe sluices which used to be used to flush the sewage to where Port Ramsgate is now. When they got it open the sewage came out into the harbour and eventually they got it closed again.

pretty much the same walk as yesterday evening, a bit too hot during the day and the harbour arm is close enough, still in the sun and cool enough.

Link to the photos 

some mystery photos yesterday's answers and some photos from today

 Q1 do you know what this Thanet attraction was and where it was? photos above and below

q2 this photo was taken 10 years ago here in Ramsgate, do you know what was going on, what is being heated up and what happened?

Answers to yesterday's questions

 Starting with the one people found the most difficult I think this is the mechanism to the old funicular lift to Viking bay in Broadstairs the top being behind The albion Hotel

 This is the concrete bathing hut structure on Ramsgate's western undercliff

where the picture above was taken from and how, was it doctored and so on came up quite a bit in the Facebook comments. It was taken with a Pentax DSLR and Tamron 80 - 210 mm zoom lens I bought secondhand around 1980. the photos below were taken from the same place wiht the same kit at the same time. Top of the Granville Tower. All hand held so the horizons are a bit squiff as I was concentrating on keeping it still. 

Today's evening walk photoshttps://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3575321478441277410#editor/target=post;postID=2541357650567458173;onPublishedMenu=overviewstats;onClosedMenu=overviewstats;postNum=1;src=link

a couple of mysteries and a few old photos

Do you know where in Thanet?

Then there is this, in amongst the photos I took around 10 years ago, a lift motor somewhere in Thanet I think, but I can't remember where. Anyone know?

 with this one, where was it taken from?

Summer is back

A few evening walk photos

The pubs are to open in 10 days, 874 new virus cases and 171 deaths today, link to gov number site

Michael's Bookshop where I work remains closed, at the moment - "granny has just died, can you arrange to come round and make an offer for her books?" has very little appeal, even if Boris said it was OK, which he hasn't so far.

Quarter day tomorrow, aka midsummers day, which is the day a lot of business rents should be paid 

The Answer to yesterday's mystery photo and some out and about Ramsgate Harbour photos from today

Ramsgate Post office

link to today's photos

A mystery photo. A few Ramsgate photos old and new, posible ramble

Which Thanet Post Office?

Went for a walk earlier, https://photos.app.goo.gl/fXSYoLocDnXUzavu5out and about in Ramsgate today

I'm still partly focused on the Pleasurama conundrum, something like:- Anything is better than the mess, but what about the issues with the design that were put on the back burner when building stopped last time.

I’ve started drafting this for local councillors and any ideas on improving it before I send it off would help

"The main issues with the Parasuraman development are.

1 The cliff wall, it has a long history of collapses involving tons of concrete rubble and chalk.

2 Problems related to stuff going over the top of the cliff, the largest item in recent years was a car.

3 The site is an environment agency designated “high risk” RIZ flood zone (big storms and high tides could wash out the whole thing because the foundations are on sand and not pile bored) The flood risk assessment the Environment Agency wanted never happened.

4 The height and roof treatment. Attempts to get a definitive roof height relative to the cliff never happened, attempts to get more attractive roofing materials never happened.

5 Cliff wall maintenance costs are to be met out of our council tax.

The planning consent passed under the Ezekiel administration without proper notification of local groups and local people and without opportunity to object. While the Planning and design statement says the development will be well below the cliff top, the various planning sheets are for a development that is very high relative to the cliff.

Assurances were made by the council that some of the issues would be addressed by TDC building control, subsequently TDC said building control would be done by an outside agency.

Assurances were made by TDC that regular cliff safety inspections would occur.

Obviously while I don’t want to see the site remain in the horrible mess it has been for the last 20 years, I am concerned that the flats are safe for people to live in, insurable, look as attractive as possible especially from Wellington Crescent and Gardens and ongoing  costs to TDC are manageable.  

These issues were being addressed when work stopped on the site about ten years ago, since then some local people and groups have assumed the planning consent had expired, some assumed the plans were something that came out of the Ezekiel  administration and related to some sort of property scam – so they would never actually be built. Now with the development having restarted I assume the council has some role and responsibilities relating to the development. I also assume the council has an official point of view on the development as it is on Ramsgate’s main leisure site and will have a considerable impact on the future prosperity of Ramsgate.

I also appreciate that a major property development that started under an administration where the council leader was sent to prison for property fraud, is an area that may be difficult for some members of the council to address.

I am not interested in recriminations, don’t have much time to pursue the issue, but I am interested to know if the council should be doing anything or are doing anything to ensure the development is as good as it can be."