photo credit: robef I think it’s good to be proud of the area you live in, and although there’s a view that Ramsgate is a bit downtrodden nowadays, I still have hope for the place and when you cast your mind over the amazing history of the place then you will be proud of the [...]

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 [...]

I seem to think that I don’t really have a large family and I suppose part of this is that the only person I see regularly is my mother, who lives in Ramsgate too. My father lives between London and Turkey, and my father’s side of the family live aboard. This goes back to my [...]