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...
by Terry Prue | May 1, 2025 | Newsletter
Dear XXXX, Welcome to our March Newsletter I want to start my own contribution with an apology! Due to unforeseen circumstances we have to change two of the diary dates included in the February Newsletter: ‘The Ramsgate Society Diamond Jubilee Celebration cannot now...
by Terry Prue | Apr 28, 2025 | Featured, News
Layout of Minster Marshes infrastructure by Keith Ross The National Grid submitted their proposal to the Planning Inspectorate on March 27th and this was accepted by the set deadline of April 24th. This now means that application documents have been published and...
by Terry Prue | Apr 28, 2025 | News
Signing up and then Raring to Go: Photos by Susanne Ford Our litter pick was just one of many that took place during The Great Ramsgate Spring Clean this year. We met at 10am and the group of volunteers worked along to the Chines at each end of the Ramsgate cliffs,...
by Terry Prue | Apr 28, 2025 | News
Rare early photograph of Christ Church published by John Crow Twyman courtesy of Stephen Davies We are pleased to pass on the information from one of our members that, after a prolonged period of closure, the beautiful Christ Church in Vale Square has reopened....
