by Terry Prue | Oct 21, 2025 | News
Photo Terry Farrell / Alan Williams, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons We were sorry to hear that The Patron of The Ramsgate Society, Sir Terry Farrell, passed away in September at the age of 87. Terry was one of the...
by Terry Prue | Oct 21, 2025 | Featured, News
Photo: Terry Prue In the July newsletter we noted that after the Little Ships had completed their crossing to Dunkirk then the display on the slipway perimeter would be extended with ten extra panels. These panels would recognise the contribution of every ship that...
by Terry Prue | Oct 21, 2025 | News
We want to apologise again for anyone who missed our emails to say the venue for this talk had to be switched to the Oddfellows Hall due to last minute non availability of the planned venue. In the event this much larger hall was a benefit as it was filled to...
by Terry Prue | Aug 20, 2025 | News
Image from Wikimedia Spencer Gore was born in Wimbledon in 1850 and lived near the All England Croquet Club, a sports facility which later became the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club and hosted the first ever Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championship in 1877. As a...
by Terry Prue | Aug 15, 2025 | News
Last year we welcomed Robert Milton Wallace to give a very well attended Ramsgate Society talk about Ramsgate Historic Quarter – a heritage led town regeneration scheme to conserve our historic buildings and improve the town environment for residents and to...
by Terry Prue | Aug 15, 2025 | News
Thanet District Council has been awarded £20million of government funding for Ramsgate, through the Plan for Neighbourhoods programme. The objective of this grant is to support investment in Ramsgate over a ten year period, from 2026 to 2036. TDC promise the funding...
by Terry Prue | Jul 27, 2025 | News
We recognise that not all members are able to be in Ramsgate or to visit the Harbour so we are providing background to this project and how it looks now, as well as, what is planned for the future. This report is split into four sections: What was originally planned:...
by Terry Prue | Jul 27, 2025 | News
For so many months the Clock House has been the place of work for a wonderful group of 50+ local volunteers helping us re-catalogue the artefacts in the Clock House Museum. As we reported in the June newsletter, that task has been completed and the majority of the...
by Terry Prue | Jul 27, 2025 | Featured, News
Heritage Open Days is England’s largest festival of history and culture and runs for ten days every year. This year the dates are Friday 12th Sunday 21st September and offers free access to heritage events and activities across England. In Ramsgate you can expect to...
by Terry Prue | Jun 26, 2025 | News
Still visible on the upper storeys of some houses around Ramsgate are substantial black cables running house to house and on occasion landing at a box high up on a wall with hard to read lettering: Rediffusion. Not everyone will be familiar with the name or perhaps...
by Terry Prue | Jun 25, 2025 | Featured, News
On June 4th we held an event for members only at the Albion Hotel to celebrate our 60th Anniversary. Mysteriously perplexing entertainment by magician, Bertie Pierce, and lovely facilities with delicious food complimented the serious side of recognising past and...
by Terry Prue | Jun 25, 2025 | News
Many of you attended the free showing of Dunkirk-related films at the Granville Theatre. This was our major contribution to the ten-day Ramsgate celebration of the 85thAnniversary of Operation Dynamo and proved to be a deeply rewarding experience. Up until this point...
by Terry Prue | May 26, 2025 | News
This is not a Ramsgate Society event but we are very happy to facilitate booking for what will be a fascinating architectural heritage tour between 11am and 4pm on June 28th. The tour is joined at the historic church of St Laurence-in-Thanet, the mother church of the...
by Terry Prue | May 26, 2025 | News
Clock House internal photographs by John Walker Members will be interested to know what the current situation is with the restoration of the Clock House and the Maritime Museum. The Society started promoting a project for the renovation of the Clock House as a new...
by Terry Prue | May 1, 2025 | News
From May 16th to 26th there will be events throughout the town to commemorate the 85th Anniversary of Operation Dynamo and the role of the Little Ships and the importance of Ramsgate Harbour in rescuing more than 338,000 British, French and Belgian troops from Dunkirk...
