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Ramsgate, the Lighthouse: stereoscope card.
Ramsgate is a port and holiday resort on the south-east coast of England.
No publisher or photographer information is printed on this. Late 19th/early 20th century.
Royal Victoria Pavilion, Ramsgate, 5 September 2020. Built in 1903-4 as a theatre/concert hall/assembly rooms/cafe. It was designed by Stanley Davenport Adshead in the style of a Robert Adam French Classical Revival Orangery with the interior based on the Queen's Theatre in Versailles (yes, really). Adshead drew up the plans in a week and won Ramsgate Corporations competition to build it, his first major architectural work. A good example of Edwardian seaside architecture. It became a casino in 1970 which closed in 2008 and it fell into a very dilapidated state. However, in 2017-18 it was restored by Wetherspoons and became the largest 'spoons pub in the world! Although it has to be said that Wetherspoons only have pubs in the UK and Ireland. Nonetheless, it also has to be said that Wetherspoons has done a truly excellent job of restoration and having a 'full English' breakfast on the veranda on a sunny English Summer's morning was a delight. Pictured is the frontage.
Royal Victoria Pavilion, Ramsgate, 5 September 2020. Built in 1903-4 as a theatre/concert hall/assembly rooms/cafe. It was designed by Stanley Davenport Adshead in the style of a Robert Adam French Classical Revival Orangery with the interior based on the Queen's Theatre in Versailles (yes, really). Adshead drew up the plans in a week and won Ramsgate Corporations competition to build it, his first major architectural work. A good example of Edwardian seaside architecture. It became a casino in 1970 which closed in 2008 and it fell into a very dilapidated state. However, in 2017-18 it was restored by Wetherspoons and became the largest 'spoons pub in the world! Although it has to be said that Wetherspoons only have pubs in the UK and Ireland. Nonetheless, it also has to be said that Wetherspoons has done a truly excellent job of restoration and having a 'full English' breakfast on the veranda on a sunny English Summer's morning was a delight. Pictured is the frontage and the George IV Obelisk.
395008 enters Ramsgate Station with the 1J32 - 12.45 hrs St. Pancras to Margate service. Not too sure about the advert
Ramsgate Royal Harbour, 5 September 2020. In the 14th Century, Ramsgate was a 'Limb' of the defensive Confederation of the Cinque Ports, being established as a subsidiary of Sandwich, one of the five Cinque Ports. The Harbour played a vital role in WWII when the RN Coastal Forces base of HMS Fervant was established here for Motor Torpedo Boats, Motor Gun Boats and armed Motor Launches to operate in the English Channel and North Sea. In addition, the harbour contributed large numbers of the famed civilian 'little ships' which evacuated the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in 1940, aswell as large numbers of French troops (half of which later returned to Occupied France, however). Pictured is the Inner Harbour, completed in 1779 by John Smeaton as a refuge from storms in the English Channel and North Sea.
Royal Victoria Pavilion, Ramsgate, 5 September 2020. Built in 1903-4 as a theatre/concert hall/assembly rooms/cafe. It was designed by Stanley Davenport Adshead in the style of a Robert Adam French Classical Revival Orangery with the interior based on the Queen's Theatre in Versailles (yes, really). Adshead drew up the plans in a week and won Ramsgate Corporations competition to build it, his first major architectural work. A good example of Edwardian seaside architecture. It became a casino in 1970 which closed in 2008 and it fell into a very dilapidated state. However, in 2017-18 it was restored by Wetherspoons and became the largest 'spoons pub in the world! Although it has to be said that Wetherspoons only have pubs in the UK and Ireland. Nonetheless, it also has to be said that Wetherspoons has done a truly excellent job of restoration and having a 'full English' breakfast on the veranda on a sunny English Summer's morning was a delight. Pictured is the interior with the Imperial Staircase leading to the galleries.
Royal Victoria Pavilion, Ramsgate, 5 September 2020. Built in 1903-4 as a theatre/concert hall/assembly rooms/cafe. It was designed by Stanley Davenport Adshead in the style of a Robert Adam French Classical Revival Orangery with the interior based on the Queen's Theatre in Versailles (yes, really). Adshead drew up the plans in a week and won Ramsgate Corporations competition to build it, his first major architectural work. A good example of Edwardian seaside architecture. It became a casino in 1970 which closed in 2008 and it fell into a very dilapidated state. However, in 2017-18 it was restored by Wetherspoons and became the largest 'spoons pub in the world! Although it has to be said that Wetherspoons only have pubs in the UK and Ireland. Nonetheless, it also has to be said that Wetherspoons has done a truly excellent job of restoration and having a 'full English' breakfast on the veranda on a sunny English Summer's morning was a delight. Pictured is a reclining classical woman on the eastern sub-pavilion which originally formed the main entrance. Note the two classical reclining figures each side of the dome.
Ramsgate Signal Box is one of five that are closing under phase one of the East Kent Resignalling Project. This box along with Margate, Faversham, Canterbury East and Shepherdswell all close on 31 December 2011 handing over control to a new signalling centre at Gillingham.
Ramsgate station, Kent, 4 September 2020. Ramsgate Town station was opened by the SER in 1846 and Ramsgate Harbour station was opened in 1863 by the Kent Coast Railway (later part of the LCDR); both were termini and unconnected with each other. Surprisingly, when the SER and LCDR formed the SECR in 1899, which planned to improve this situation, it was left to its successor, the Southern Railway, to build a new link line between the SER and LCDR routes on which they built a new Ramsgate station in 1926, the two earlier stations being closed. The architects of the new station were James Robb Scott and Edwin Maxwell Fry, modernist architects, who built the station in New Classical style with an Egyptian theme. Discoveries in the Valley of the Kings had been made recently. Pictured are the platforms.
Royal Victoria Pavilion, Ramsgate, 5 September 2020. Built in 1903-4 as a theatre/concert hall/assembly rooms/cafe. It was designed by Stanley Davenport Adshead in the style of a Robert Adam French Classical Revival Orangery with the interior based on the Queen's Theatre in Versailles (yes, really). Adshead drew up the plans in a week and won Ramsgate Corporations competition to build it, his first major architectural work. A good example of Edwardian seaside architecture. It became a casino in 1970 which closed in 2008 and it fell into a very dilapidated state. However, in 2017-18 it was restored by Wetherspoons and became the largest 'spoons pub in the world! Although it has to be said that Wetherspoons only have pubs in the UK and Ireland. Nonetheless, it also has to be said that Wetherspoons has done a truly excellent job of restoration and having a 'full English' breakfast on the veranda on a sunny English Summer's morning was a delight. Pictured is the interior with the Imperial Staircase leading to the galleries.
This is one of a group sent by my grandmother back to her parents in August 1905. She and her brother Will seems to have been having a holiday on the coast from Ramsgate to Margate over a week or so.
Royal Victoria Pavilion, Ramsgate, 5 September 2020. Built in 1903-4 as a theatre/concert hall/assembly rooms/cafe. It was designed by Stanley Davenport Adshead in the style of a Robert Adam French Classical Revival Orangery with the interior based on the Queen's Theatre in Versailles (yes, really). Adshead drew up the plans in a week and won Ramsgate Corporations competition to build it, his first major architectural work. A good example of Edwardian seaside architecture. It became a casino in 1970 which closed in 2008 and it fell into a very dilapidated state. However, in 2017-18 it was restored by Wetherspoons and became the largest 'spoons pub in the world! Although it has to be said that Wetherspoons only have pubs in the UK and Ireland. Nonetheless, it also has to be said that Wetherspoons has done a truly excellent job of restoration and having a 'full English' breakfast on the veranda on a sunny English Summer's morning was a delight. Pictured is the elevation to the beach.
37201 'Saint Margaret' at Ramsgate, having worked a Saturday Inter-City Cross Country train from Birmingham New St. I think the appearance of 37201 on this service was organised by Rail magazine - certainly that's how I knew about it in advance. A couple of years later a similar trip was operated with a Deltic by Virgin Cross Country.
I bashed this from Chatham to Ramsgate and back.
12th August 1995.