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 

Click to Expand New Old Thanet Guide out now, Some old local photos and the ramblings of a wandering bookseller.

 

Tourist Complete Guide to the Isle of Thanet and its Neighbourhood circa 1878.

While I strongly recommend coming into Michaels Bookshop in Ramsgate and giving this a browse if you can't do this here is the link to the buy it now button so we can post it to you.

Below some sample pages. these should expand enough to read with a bit of clicking

On to the old pictures of Margate and Ramsgate

Hair at Michael's bookshop in Ramsgate we sell about 100 books a day and so on the days that we are closed we spend a lot of the time out around the local area buying secondhand books for the bookshop.

Thursday was Canterbury Oxfam bookshop etc, 

Interesting to see how much damage the rising bollards can do to a car personally I never go near them

Lunch at Electo Chocolate Cafe two hot sandwiches and pot of Yorkshire tea all very high quality £15.85

I'm still reading my way through the works of Haruki Murakami

So this time a watercolour of Haruki Murakami I'm pretty sure I've managed to get a Japanese man but not so certain that it actually looks like Murakami.

We went to Sandwich yesterday the town of sandwich is something along the lines of medieval 1970s

Cheese and ham toasted sandwich chocolate muffin pot of tea for two £13.30 good quality and reasonable price

My my previous post linked to about five hundred and fifty photographs of this year's Ramsgate carnival this proved very popular so here is a link to it in case you missed it

Michael's bookshop wise here is the link to the books that we have just put out for sale.