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Tuesday, 28 August 2018

Old pictures of Ramsgate and Margate

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Click the pictures to expand them hopefully some you haven's seen before. Moses's shipyard and the Paragon baths in this ...

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Will the Manston DCO make men stupid?

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For me, while I quite like the idea of a small regional airport at Manston I am not keen on an airfreight hub there because of the amount ...

Monday, 27 August 2018

Pictures thoughts

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A couple of holiday related Margate photos here, this one just says "Holidaymakers" on it. and this one "Holiday ...

Sunday, 26 August 2018

Photos of Ramsgate from Sandwich today, some thoughts on Manston, a wet Bank Holiday Ramble

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If anyone tells you that when the ageing process cuts in you will need less sleep and therefore get up earlier, all I can say is this hasn...

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Saturday, 25 August 2018

Politics, war and religion in East Kent back in the good old days

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300 years ago local government in this area was administered by the church through the church wardens, much of this was to do with wha...

Friday, 24 August 2018

Old folks in Margate, Ice house in Ramsgate and Stephanie Quayle in Canterbury

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I would guess these 3 pictures (click on them to expand) date from the 1920s or before so local people born before 1850 Note the numb...

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