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Ramsgate has the ONLY Royal Harbour in the UK and it's easy to see why! You can take a walk around the marina and admire the craft or walk the pier to admire the outer harbour and views across the channel. Harbour-side, there is a wonderful array of bistros, wine bars, shops and galleries. If you want to eat, there are enough restaurants to the satisfying palate. With south-facing beaches and its own climate, a summer visit is a must. Come again at Christmas time and you will see every boat festooned with Christmas light.
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.
Kings Hall Theatre, Ramsgate. Opened in 1910 and closed in 1982 the Kings Hall was designed by H. Bertram Langham, and was used mainly as a cinema, although it has a small stage. Since closing it has been used by a church who have recently sold the building. It had 700 seats in stalls and a small cast iron balcony.
Ramsgate, Kent, Kings Theatre
January 2016
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 is the doorway to a conference room off the booking hall.
Eastonways vehicles at Port Ramsgate on courtesy services to the Railway station.From left coach ,ex Wealden L./N THX146S ex Warrens of Tcehurst and finally ex Roffey of Flimwell.
One of the more unusual places to see a restaurant would be on top of an Argos store on a High Street, however there used to be just that in Ramsgate!
former Woolworths - Ramsgate
(store no. 72)
24 July 2010
closed 27 December 2008
12-14 High Street, Ramsgate CT11 9AE
since reopened as 99p Stores
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 awning brackets on the frontage.
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 is the frontage.
Ramsgate has the ONLY Royal Harbour in the UK and it's easy to see why! You can take a walk around the marina and admire the craft or walk the pier to admire the outer harbour and views across the channel. Harbour-side, there is a wonderful array of bistros, wine bars, shops and galleries. If you want to eat, there are enough restaurants to the satisfying palate. With south-facing beaches and its own climate, a summer visit is a must. Come again at Christmas time and you will see every boat festooned with Christmas light.
Not exactly Blackpool but Ramsgates Equivilent of. I had been shooting towards to boats in the marina but the wind and rain was playing havoc with my images, spots on the lens and wind pushing my camera about making my photos look blury.
This i set up and pointed through some railings, with feet dangling over the edge (and a tripod foot actually on the slope down that i did not realise till after the shot) i captured this. Not one of the best as i took it as fast as possible to run back to the cover of my car before the heavens opened.
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The Postcard
A postally unused postcard that was published by Lincoln Green Ltd. of Hurstpierpoint, Sussex. The card has a divided back.
Ramsgate
Ramsgate is a coastal town in East Kent. It was one of the great seaside towns of the 19th. century, and is a member of the ancient confederation of Cinque Ports. Ramsgate's main attraction is its coastline, and its main industries are tourism and fishing, although the fishing is in decline.
Many of the town's buildings are Regency or Victorian.
Ramsgate's harbour (partly visible in the picture) is an important feature of the town. Construction began in 1749 and was completed in about 1850. It is the only Royal Harbour in the UK.
Because of being near to mainland Europe, Ramsgate was a major embarkation point both for the Napoleonic Wars and for the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940.
The Ramsgate Marina Bathing Pool
The Marina Bathing Pool was funded by the brewers Tomson and Wotton. It was opened by Mrs T Wotton and Mr Martin Tomson in 1935.
The complex comprised a boating pool at the lower end of the pool (in the foreground in the photograph). The other end had a recreational dancing/roller skating rink. There was also car parking under the cafe.
Floodlit bathing played a major part in relaxation swimming. Ramsgate Marina Bathing Pool during holiday weekends, had easily 5,000 passing through the turnstiles.
Water Polo matches were frequent. There were many spectacular displays of swimming and diving. In fact the famous US diver Pete Desjardins was flown over specially to give a display.
The Closure of the Pool
Sadly, like many other outdoor swimming pools around the British coastline, it is no more. There are a number of stories about the closure of the pool.
It was partly a victim of changing holiday tastes, with package holidays offering guaranteed sun; the water in the Marina Pool was always cold and the weather unpredictable.
Some say it was a council blunder that damaged Ramsgate Marina Bathing Pool so badly it could never be used again.
The story goes that some bright council officer decided to take the running of it from the borough engineers and give it to the council's leisure department.
The sceptical engineers handed it to the leisure department with a set of instructions about running and maintaining it, one of which was never to empty it without supporting the seaward facing side.
This was because it was designed so the weight of the water inside counteracted the forces of the sea battering against it.
The first thing the leisure department did when they took it over was to empty it unsupported.
In the resulting cover up, councillors were told that the cracking was caused bomb damage during WW2 that had weakened the structure.
Some say the problem was the old design of the building, and that the pool was actually on 'stilts', and you could walk underneath it at low tide. As the tide came in the void was filled with seawater.
The dated building measures made this a fatal design fault. Gradually the chalk below began to erode, and as a result the foundations moved, causing the pool to crack. This was patched for years until repairs were impossible. It was also too expensive to replace.
Some say that the chalk at sea edge was excavated deliberately, and that the council failed to stop this.
With bather numbers dwindling the pool was eventually abandoned and left to decay. It became an eyesore, and local businessman Mr John Bates filled in the site.
He applied white paint to the surrounds in an attempt to smarten up what was left of the pool. However eventually it was totally demolished.