Saturday 2 December 2017

When did Margate start going downhill?

anyone care to put a date to the photo? I think probably before 1965 or the skirt would have been shorter and the male hair longer. I know from boarding school that by 1966 my hair was being measured in relation to my ear.


The skies in Ramsgate were pretty good today


 I think Ramsgate started to go downhill from about 1865, and that this was due to the Brighton train, the the first obvious sign of the was Edward Pugin going bankrupt over the Granville House development.




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