Ramsgate Margate

Bit of a strange day today as I haven't really done very much. Recovery mode after the heat, although apart from the wind cooling things off in the shade, it still seems pretty hot to me.

The three pictures of the Dreamland Hall by the Sea, Sangers

Next pictures of Turner Contemporary in 2011

My understanding is that it costs £2m per year to run Turner Contemporary, so I was a bit surprised the read that Bernie’s Chocolate Bar in Margate's flatiron is to close see https://theisleofthanetnews.com/bernies-chocolate-bar-in-margate-to-close-its-doors-next-month/

When I talk to Margate traders Grayson Perry is often mentioned

 Here in Ramsgate, Harbour Hoo-Ha as part of Ramsgate Festival of sound in Pier Yard this is the link

We are along way from looking at this

and considering doing this

To build a venue

like this. We did you know.

Ah yes more, so regeneration through arts, privately funded which most of Ramsgate's is, publicly funded, or should the public regeneration funding go into something else? Dreamland perhaps. Some of it in Ramsgate perhaps - apart from Port Ramsgate that is?

Mike Samson exhibition in York Street Gallery in Ramsgate

Mike Samson exhibition in York Street Gallery in Ramsgate  runs until Wednesday

Fires, fireman, heatwave ends?

Pictures starting with fires and firemen in Margate

 Fireman's parade 1923

Queen's Hotel fire

You can make animations where the roundabout goes round, but you can make one where much to the consternation of the man in charge, well it just doesn't, which only goes to show that the roundabout in your mind isn't necessarily revolving.

Of course if you slit your eyes enough you can probably make it turn. What can you do?

A sorry site where the boats burnt in Ramsgate Harbour, luckily no one badly hurt according to the press reports.

I would expect that this fire was due to gas, they usually are on boats, perhaps with so many boats in a confined space, some with people sleeping on board them we need better regulation.

  You can see the storm coming in this is the link to the full size pano

I think it spells the end of the heatwave.

Workwise in the bookshop this is the link to the photos of the books that went on the shelves today

 a couple of offshore zooms

Westbrook in Thanet, a small heatwave post

 I think for a while in Edwardian times Westbrook changed its name to Westonville

 I would guess it aspired to be the new Ciftonville

 On a hot day the seafront prom etc tends to be a fair bit cooler than Margate

 It certainly was today, we walked as far as the edge of Margate seafront and turned back as it was too hot.

 We bought some books for the bookshop in Herne Bay this morning - probably the wrong ones because of the heat

 The buying of fiction for the bookshop is a difficult one as I dont want to buy too many titles I already have.

 Today I did this using the photos of the fiction books on the shelves in the bookshop here is the link 

 

 

Sorry if there are any repeats in that lot.

I quite like painting Margate from Westbrook as the light is mostly behind me.

Today's effort, done in sunglasses and wilting in the heat, came out rather strange.

A couple of pretty strange replies from pins re the Manston DCO and how they deal with ensuring the the money paid to them and other people in the course of the DCO process is legitimately sourced. Here are the links - link 1 link 2 with RiverOak RSP seeming to source their funds from tax havens and the UK Gov cracking down on this at the moment; I wondered how this would work.

I think Ramsgate Town  Council have bought the old fire station in Effinghm Street which I think they will turn into a new town hall. I have reservations on two counts with this one, the first being, will they be able to get out of their lease commitments to The Custom House and the other is that I have always tried to get them to take an ordinary empty shop in the town centre with a clerk on the desk whose job is to sort out local people's problems, contact the right person in the right part of local or national government.

A few photos of Westbrook today here is the link

For the dedicated followers this is the link the books we put out for sale yesterday