Ramsgate High Street in 1963 and a Ramsgate fishing smack but is it in Ramsgate Harbour?

So is this Ramsgate fishing smack in Ramsgate, I think this could be the outside of the west pier of the harbour, any ideas appreciated.

Here are the pictures of the Ramsgate High Street pages from the street directory for 1963

For those who can’t get to the bookshop to browse the directory to find out things like who lived in their house in 1963, or who lived next door to them in 1963 after a their 1963 High Street shopping here is link to page you can buy it by post from http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/catalogue/ramsgate_street_directory_1963.htm

Another old photo with no date on it, perhaps 1930s

 I think that's the Sun Cafe in the background

and that it's deco style would make it 1930s

Another day in the bookshop, why is it that ordinary technology seems to have as much trouble with Monday mornings as human beings do? Fortunately books always respond in the same way and here is the link to the photos of the ones that went out on the shelves http://michaelsbookshop.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/the-hare-with-amber-eyes-in-bookshop.html

Probably 1940s actually:- From Images of England, Ramsgate and St Laurance, 2nd edition, page 56.

The Eagle Café, situated on the end of the East Pier, c.1939. The Grummant brothers, a firm of local builders, were contracted to build this futuristic building. Alderman W T Smith, Mayor of Ramsgate, officially opened the premises in July 1938..... Total cost £6000.

 

Ramsgate Harbour about 1880 photo and a bit of sketching in Canterbury today

This photo showing the old Foy Boat Tavern, Moses and Deveson’s Sail Loft with Ramsgate fishing smacks is one of my favourites. I have published it online before although I can’t quite remember when, but no apologies for that.

It should expand quite a bit when clicked on but here is a detail that I cropped out as it is difficult to tell what photos will look like on the internet until you have actually clicked on the publish button.

I did a bit more to my watercolour in Saint Anselm’s chapel in Canterbury Cathedral, the issue here is that it isn’t like a photograph but is painted using the facility I have to revolve my head., so it has a different vanishing point when I look to the right of me to the one when I look to the left or in front of me. Joining this up and making the parts of the cathedral seen through the arches look further away is a bit of a learning curve.

I then toddled off to Chocolate Café as I thought a pot of Yorkshire tea and a chocolate muffin would help with my perspective and sketched the people who sat in the window facing me.

A bit a scrunched up A5 sketch as two seats and three people as one of them finished their dink changed to someone else as I was sketching, the business of getting people in good light facing you, the right distance away from you while sitting somewhere to sketch where you can see the paper is the difficult part.

A lot back issues of Bygone Kent magazine in the stock that went out in the bookshop on Saturday, so here is the link to the photos of them http://michaelsbookshop.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/hello-is-this-planet-earth-in-bookshop.html

Margate, Northdown Road in 1950 and a Turner Contemporary changeover sketch, ramble

I do have this ongoing sketch from Turner Contemporary Café, for me it’s a bit of a learning cars and boats piece and as the café there both has a view and I don’t think there is ever likely to be an issue over sketching there, it’s a very good place to learn.

For some reason that I don’t really know I often have to go to Margate during the gallery’s exhibition changeover and so have done sketches of the inside of the café when it has a lot of people in it who presumably turned up to see an art exhibition that wasn’t on.

There is a bit of a strange Alice in Wonderland atmosphere and something of an art exhibit in itself to visiting an art gallery without an exhibition of any significance init.

So here is today’s watercolour painted in the café at Turner Contemporary in Margate, and yes I have to admit that my main reason for going to Margate today was to paint.this I don’t think the sketch is finished, but I ran out of people facing the right way the right distance away to paint.

Sorrow, back to rambling on about painting and Margate in abit, here are the Northdown Road 1950 street directory pages and this is the link if you want to buy the directory. 

A significant shopping street in its day all of the pictures in this post including the ones of the directory pages should expand with a bit of clicking. 

 Lots of people drinking at FEZ in retro clothes

 Henry's closing down sale, something of an end of an era, talking to the people there the main problem wasn't the internet but trying to trade in a street without enough shops open.

 Visiting a photography shop brings out the wosisname in me.

Back to the ramble 

Sos, egg and chips for lunch and a complaint, someone has gone and painted the observation tower thingy, that woz grey yeller or is it magnolia? 's right above the menu card.

 There is potential in the otherwise rather boring ceiling for a bit of the bends.

Turner Contemporary's lockers haven't been converted to the new pounds and I don't think they are going to be, you have to buy a token for life for a £1 now.

A bit of a fail again at trying to express the atmosphere at TC when there is no exhibition on and people turn up expecting one, turned up early to moan about Emin’s bed and it hadn’t been unmade yet sort of kidney. Perhaps I should have painted a made bed in the middle of the picture, or perhaps out Trace asitwere unmaking it.