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Saturday, 22 August 2026

Ramsgate Pleasurama and seafront

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I think far and away the best picture here is the Thanet District council brochure. It shows Pleasurama and seafront when it was still ope...

Friday, 21 August 2026

Photos of Ramsgate and Margate during the 1950s and The Second Sex book recommendation

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Photos of Ramsgate and Margate during the 1950s. So with the three Ramsgate photos I am guessing the date based on the clothes people are w...

Wednesday, 19 August 2026

Ramsgate harbour in the 1960s

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Two photos of Ramsgate Harbour from the 22nd of October 1963. You may find it worth zooming in, I will also put them on my Thanetonline blo...

Monday, 17 August 2026

Ramsgate High Stree

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Ramsgate High Street, you can see the Royal Palace Theatre, aka Sangers, on the right, that was most recently Argos but is now abandoned. ...

Saturday, 15 August 2026

Margate and Ramsgate during the first world war.

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Margate and Ramsgate during the first world war. For some reason or another while Ramsgate was very heavily bombed Margate came through vi...

Friday, 14 August 2026

Old Photos, new photos Ramsgate eclipse Turner Contemporary Margate historical photos

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Ramsgate around 1953, this is one of a batch of old Ramsgate photos that I bought very recently over the counter here at Michael's Boo...

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