I’ve made a trip back into the Google library and today have for you sections from ‘A practical, guide to the watering and sea-bathing places, on the coasts of Kent, Sussex, and Hampshire‘ published in 1846. The three larger towns of Thanet are reviewed in detail and I had a smile when I read this [...]

During the snowy spells last week a couple of the local Thanet newspapers asked for reader’s photos via tweets from their Twitter profiles: @YourThanet, @ThanetExtra I duly obliged and send them a link to my Flickr set and told them to take any they wanted and so now I’ve got some photos in the Thanet [...]

Last week I asked Why were our pavements not gritted? and it was suggested in the comments that there was a possibility of getting sued if you did this and someone fell over on the part you had ‘cleared’. This viewpoint was also supported by news items in the Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday [...]