Pictures of Chatham House Ramsgate

I am pretty sure that these are Chatham House pupils and that the other picture click here was taken during WW1 when the building was used as a Canadian hospital.

Chislet Colliery

You don’t see many pictures of our local coalmine so I was pleased to be allowed to copy this one for us all to share.

Click here to enlarge the picture

Don’t dig the toilet near the well

Back at the beginning of May the environment agency produced their response to the China gateway development, which they sent to me, TDCs planning department and the developers architects.

The documentation that relates to this development consists of hundreds of pages and I am sorry to have to admit to not having read all of it, however it is pretty obvious that neither the environment agency officers nor the TDC planning officers have read all of it either.

The majority of the documentation relates to overcoming problems related contaminating our drinking water supply and can best be summarised as, how to let the Chinese dig a toilet by the well, in this case our drinking water well.

I thought as they had written to me about this issue I ought to take some trouble over it and reply to them detailing any errors I had found in their response.

Click here to read the environment agency’s response

Click here to read my reply to them.

Ramsgate from the air

Today some aerial views of Ramsgate, I was surprised how few boats there were in the harbour. I believe these photos are all pre-war Ramsgate’s steam fishing boats are much in evidence.

Click here to look at the pictures

Ramsgate library reconstruction works

As some of you will know KCC have banned photography of the construction work at Ramsgate Library, so here is a rare picture of the construction work.

Pictures of this type are invaluable to historians in years to come, without them major events on Ramsgate’s history like the rebuilding of the library go unrecorded and eventually forgotten.

There are some old pictures of Ramsgate Library the bottom of one of my web pages click here to go there

Some more old pictures of Ramsgate

Once again local political issues have been taking up time that I would rather be spending on local history, however hare are some more old pictures of Ramsgate.

I put a counter on this blog a couple of months ago that seems to have passed the 10,000 mark, so it seems an appropriate time to ask readers if I am doing it ok anything you think I ought to be covering that I’m not or anything you think I am covering that I ought not to be?

I have captioned the pictures that didn’t seem obvious, sorry for any repeats, let me know if there are any you can’t identify click here to look at the pictures

Why are tdc hiding important documents from us?

I have noticed recently that there has been a considerable reluctance to keep the tdc planning website up to date and I am having to publish documents that should be appearing there.

With the China Gateway application the environment agency’s recommendations and conditions have still not appeared on the tdc planning website although they were sent to tdc over a month ago.

When I added my comments to the site I discovered that unlike other councils tdc had opted to hide comments and objections.

I have now published yet another important document that should be available for everyone with an interest in the application to view, it is the objection from the Protection of Rural England click here to read it

Flogging off the TDC owned buildings in Ramsgate

Malcolm has just sent me his comments on the Ramsgate asset disposal for publication, he has some interesting thoughts, click here to read them.