A few pictures of Ramsgate and possible ramble

I thought it an interesting reflection on Ramsgate that a sexy underwear shop only survived for a few months, I have admit that this isn’t an area of engineering that I know much about.

I forgot to put the links to the pictures that I used a few of for yesterdays post, in yesterdays post, a senior moment perhaps, here they are:

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/212/id7.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/212/id8.htm

I did try to something artistic with the camera when I went for my walk today, I haven’t bothered to delete the offending pictures, so you may want to have a drink before viewing them at:    

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/212/id9.htm

I am hoping the new shoe shop will do better and last longer, at least everyone appears to wear shoes, anyone who has children will be familiar of the business of going to Westwood Cross, getting their feet measured in the Clarkes shoe shop and then going home and buying the shoes online for a third of the price.  

Just changing computers to I will ramble on in a mo. 

Gimme Shelter a ramble a about charity, shops, shelters and the stuff of local news.

The Ramsgate shelters project is taking shape with several almost restored to their former glory, lets hope the survive, metal thieves, vandals, caught shorts and so on.

Work has started on the new development at Granville Marina, the one on the bend near where Nero’s was.

The bank of earth at the front of Quex Park has been removed considerably enlarging the car park for Quex Barn farm shop and Restaurant.    

Pleasurama still seems to have ground to a halt, cliff problems, flood risk problems, financing problems, development agreement problems? Who knows? 

Can a charity shop go bankrupt?

This one apparently has, do the bailiffs come in and take away the donations?

This shop in Queen Street has closed for the second time in about three months. 

Jimmy Godden’s arcade had been refitted and reopened. 

Jimmy Godden’s other arcade has closed and rumour has it that Terry Painter will be taking it over as an estate agents concentrating on selling The Royal Sands.

Yesterday, beside the fair,
I sold flat that wasn’t there

It wasn’t there again today

Oh yes and I bought a new pencil, much more difficult than you would think, the new one is an American Venus the old one nearly down to the stub is an English Venus, the American ones have thicker leads.

I have just been trying it, pencil sketches don’t photograph well for me, but you get the idea.

I may ramble on, as there is loads more where that lot came from if I get the time. 

Slight Change in Blog Format and possible ramble.

In the first instance I have changed the comment format on this blog so people can respond to comments within the thread. In other words I have made it easier people who comment here to discuss things among themselves.

There are bits of news surfacing today, I think perhaps the most significant being that the Arlington Margate Tesco public enquiry that was to start tomorrow has been postponed. See http://arlingtonmargate.com/2012/03/12/public-inquiry-for-arlington-margate-tesco-postponed/ for a bit more information.

Following on from yesterday’s Richborough towers demolition I though it could be helpful to point people at the website about the redevelopment of this site, see http://www.richboroughenergypark.co.uk/

The picture and newspaper article (London Gazette March 1906) relate to 25 King Street Ramsgate, stuff as they say, happens.

 I may ramble on if I have anything to say, I may even do so if I haven’t.

Richborough Power Station demolition watercolour sketch

I thought I had better record the event as best as I could in my sketchbook, I don’t know about other people, but for me there was a sense of unreality about this thirty second event. Almost as though it wasn’t something that was really happening anyway I don’t really have the right words, so here is the picture.

It may enlarge if you click on it.

Richborough Power Station Demolition

Sorry about the last post I tried to use my mobile phone, difficult on a bright and sunny day as I couldn’t actually see what I was doing.

Plenty of excellent material on the web already as you see from the video above, pictures from above on Simon’s blog see http://birchington.blogspot.com/2012/03/towers-come-down.html


I will add some more pictures from this morning as I get around to it.

For something the council described as not an event quite a few people turned up as you can see from the pictures of my morning walk

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/laptop312/id4.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/laptop312/id5.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/laptop312/id6.htm

some of these may take a little while to appear online

And here the ones from the camera with the longer lens on it http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/laptop312/id7.htm I may sort the picturs out a bit more at some later date.

Richborough Power Station Cooling Towers and Chimney Demolition Update.

The latest information I have on the demolition is that it will go ahead tomorrow at about 9am, the roads will be closed at around 8.45, a warning siren will sound at about 8.55 followed by a warning Rocket. 

Do you see what’s there, a reflection on local blogs and politics

I have just got around to reading the local blogs and it is evident that both Simon Moores, at http://birchington.blogspot.com/2012/03/man-with-plan.html and Tony Flaig, at http://bignewsmargate.blogspot.com/2012/03/well-done-clive-labours-manston-policy.html both blame Infratil pulling out of Manston on the 100 day Thanet District Council Labour administration.

In a roundabout way I wonder if there is any truth in this or if either Simon or Tony believe what they wrote, I guess in both cases there is apolitical motive, but I am a bit uncertain just what that motive is.

People obviously see what they want to see, and I suppose one can influence it a bit as in the doodle above, but you can only stretch credulity so far and the people start to react adversely.

I mean things look different depending on how you look at them, try and count the people in the doodle above and you will see what I mean, so do they have a point? Would the executives at Infratil be able to tell the difference between a conservative administration in a local council and a Labour one, would they even know it had changed? Would they be aware of some change of tactics? What would they see looking at Thanet over the last 100 days apart from the best part of £1m in losses?

I guess I may ramble on here, may draw something else.