Chuck and Blade Ramsgate View, Thanet Archive Photos and Bookshopping in Faversham

 

Can you spot the error in this AI produced view of Ramsgate from Chuck and Blade Burgers ?

I thought AI could produce a round picture from a round building and the robot and I nearly got it right. 

This bank building that has been Pizza Express, Travellers in Italy, and is now a Chuck and Blade Burgers started out life just before 1900 as the National Westminster Bank. You can see the tall Granville tower which was lowered to the height is now in 1900 and of course the national Westminster Bank completed in the photo above, you'll probably have to do a bit of tapping or clicking to expand it.

The demolishing of The Albion Hotel which was on the site and the building of Madeira walk and the National Westminster Bank was all result of the Ramsgate improvement act 1878

My guess is that it was built around 1897 above is a photograph of the construction happening.

Next comes from pictures taken inside Chuck and blade burgers in Ramsgate. The pictures will all expand with a bit of clicking.

The meal we had was excellent burgers chips and drink for two people cost about £30. Secondhand bookselling and publishing books about the history of the Isle of a Thanet doesn't make a profit that it does supplement my income so I wouldn't be able to afford to do this very often.

Next some historic pictures of Ramsgate and Margate harbours

Here at Michael's Bookshop in Ramsgate we sell about 100 books per day and as we open 4 days a week this means we have to find 400 quality books every week so we spend a lot of the time when the bookshop is closed out and about buying books. You can see what we have bought by clicking on the link to our new acquisitions website where we but photos of the books as we price them.

Onto book buying in Faversham yesterday.. Faversham still has a second hand bookshop and now has a recently opened new bookshop so this is a good town to go bookshopping.

I had lunch at the Sun Hotel which is opposite the secondhand bookshop. A very substantial beef and stilton sandwich combined with a pot of tea cost about £10.

We had hoped to play pool at the Churchill Tavern but the pool table was closed so we went on for a drink at the Queen Charlotte Pub in Ramsgate

Drawing Haruki Murakami, The Terra Marique visits Ramsgate Harbour, Thanet local history pictures and a ramble from Michael's Bookshop in Ramsgate.

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 If I was going to be an author's number one fan then Haruki Murakami would be near the top of my list.

I recently decided to reread all of his works, reading anything I had missed on the way.

So the first of a series of drawings of Haruki Murakami, I did this one with a dark grey fine liner. I'm not really sure about the liketness as drawing Japanese men is entirely new to me so this is a first attempt at that.

As you can see from this photo of part of the paperback fiction here at Michael's bookshop in Ramsgate we don't have very many Haruki Murakami books.

Looking in our collectible books I see we also have three first editions.

By way of explanation here Haruki Murakami is a current living author of high-quality literary fiction so you just aren't going to find a huge amount of his books at any one time in a secondhand bookshop.

Of course if you go to a large new full price book shop or just look on Amazon then he will be relatively easy to get them although this will be a fairly expensive experience.

Link to the books we have just priced here at Michael's Bookshop in Ramsgate 

On to The Terra Marique leaving Ramsgate Harbour

Terra Marique a truly remarkable vessel, in 2004 she was used to transport the aircraft Concorde through London and to her final home in Scotland.

I assume she was leaving Ramsgate on Sunday having stayed overnight here because of the very high winds.

On to the old pictures of Thanet 

Clockhouse and Dry Dock from about 1842 to about 1881