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Ramsgate maps
Historic maps of Ramsgate and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Ramsgate maps
Historic map of Ramsgate
Illustrated Victorian map of Kent
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Ramsgate books
Displaying 3 of 14 books about Ramsgate and the local area. View all Ramsgate books
Ramsgate Old and New Photographic Memories
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Kent Revisited Photographic Memories
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£14
Around the Kent Coast
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£14
32 Ramsgate photos appear in 5 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Ramsgate
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My greatgrandfather Giles Chandler ran a small fleet of fishing smacks from Ramsgate harbour in late 1800s and early 1900s. The Progress, Peace and Spray were some of them. The Progress was lost with all hands during a storm in October 1911. Several other fishing smacks from Ramsgate were lost at this time.
Shared on 08 August 2006
Kent memories
Broadstairs and St Mary's Home 1957
I was 6 years old and had had bronchitis and asthma and so I was sent away from smoggy London to St Mary's Home in Broadstairs. I was taken with other young children on a train by a nurse in a brown uniform. We all slept in dormitories and every Wednesday we had early morning exercises. Sometimes we were taken down... [more]
Shared on 24 October 2009
WERE YOU AT PORT REGIS Convent for delicate girls DURING 1950''''S
I was at Port Regis between 1954 and 1956. I was 8 when I got there and left just before my 10th birthday. Was anyone else at Port Regis, Broadstairs when it was a convent for delicate girls?
I did read one input here, but it was from 1946 I think. The nuns, thinking about it now, resembled Roman Catholic ladies... [more]
Shared on 10 September 2009
Was anyone else convalescent here?
I think this was where I was sent at age about 4. I lived in London and was packed off with some other children on a train. I remember the nuns that looked after us and the stone steps cut in the cliff where we would access the beach. It was winter and freezing cold. I was there for a month... [more]
Shared on 18 August 2009
Extracts From Ramsgate & Kent books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Ramsgate, inspired by Frith photos.
This early picture of the beach at Ramsgate shows the benches that were precursors of the modern deck chair and a few bathing machines. Ramsgate Sands Station is in the centre of the picture. It was one of two stations at Ramsgate, and was the terminus of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway. It opened in 1863 and closed in 1926.
This is an extract from Thanet Pocket Album.
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Ramsgate Old and New Photographic Memories
The beach is overlooked by the Georgian houses of Wellington Crescent. In the centre is the Sands station, owned by the London, Chatham & Dover Railway, which opened on 5 October 1863. The low building extending from the left is the Colonnade, which was demolished by a storm in 1897 and replaced by the Royal Pavilion in 1904. In 1899, the South Eastern and the London, Chatham & Dover Railways combined to become the South Eastern & Chatham... [more]
This is an extract from Ramsgate Old and New Photographic Memories.
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In the centre of this photograph is the rail terminus of the line from Faversham. Opened in 1863, it closed in 1926 when a new station for the town was opened to the rear of the town. Note the wheeled stalls on the beach, and the row of chairs all in a line.
This is an extract from Around the Kent Coast.
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