by Terry Prue | Dec 17, 2024 | News
Many members will already know that back in 2011/12 the Ramsgate Society restored the 14 Listed seafront shelters with a grant of £450,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund. At that time the Society was granted a 12-year lease on the shelters by Thanet District Council,...
by Terry Prue | Dec 17, 2024 | Climate Matters, News
In September’s Climate Matters I presented the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, launched in 2015 as an ambitious plan to transform the world by 2030. The 17 goals were broken down into 169 targets. Approaching the two-thirds point of this 15-year plan,...
by Terry Prue | Dec 17, 2024 | Featured, News
On 7th December this year, on behalf of The Ramsgate Society, I attended a Civic Voice meeting in London when representatives of over 50 Civic Societies in England came together for their Annual General Meeting. Unfortunately, it was the weekend of the severe travel...
by Terry Prue | Dec 17, 2024 | Newsletter
Dear XXXX, Welcome to the December Ramsgate Society Newsletter and I’d like to start by wishing you a joyous Christmas and a fulfilling new year on behalf of the Ramsgate Society Committee. Our member activities are over now for the year and we look forward to seeing...
by Terry Prue | Nov 28, 2024 | News
We had a very good litter pick earlier today – Sunday 27th October – supported by Ramsgate Town Council and Thanet District Council. We were lucky with the weather and this helped us have a great turn out of approximately 40 volunteers, including...
by Terry Prue | Nov 28, 2024 | Climate Matters, News
For a change of subject and viewpoint, this month’s Climate Matters is a guest article from a local , Dr. Harrison Watler MRCVS describing his work with a sea turtle charity. You may think that sea turtles are not part of our local marine fauna, but ocean...
by Terry Prue | Nov 28, 2024 | Newsletter
Dear XXXX, Welcome to the November Ramsgate Society Newsletter. A busy time of year so you might appreciate a relatively short newsletter this month! The November talk on the Ramsgate Heritage Design Forum and Albion Place development has yet to happen but be aware it...
by Terry Prue | Nov 27, 2024 | Newsletter
Dear XXXX, Welcome to the October Ramsgate Society Newsletter. With a little more of October to run let us remind you of two events still to come this month before we move on to other issues: Our next talk on October 24th 7pm at the San Clu will be presented by Kevin...
by Terry Prue | Oct 23, 2024 | Climate Matters, News
With the recent announcement of £22 billion pounds investment in carbon storage and capture research by the new government, it is pertinent to ask whether technological solutions may allow the planet to avoid the worst ravages of climate change. The magnitude of the...
by Terry Prue | Sep 27, 2024 | News
Ramsgate Society members will know that over the last several months we have been working closely with the Ramsgate Regeneration Alliance to bring a Tall Ships Event to Ramsgate in 2026. The initial phase of this project was to commission a Feasibility Study from Tall...
by Terry Prue | Sep 27, 2024 | Climate Matters, News
Climate Matters has focussed particularly on the dangers and causes of climate change. However, climate change is just one facet, albeit a massive one, of the overall degradation of the planet caused by unrestrained growth. Sir David Attenborough said some years ago:...
by Terry Prue | Sep 26, 2024 | Newsletter
Dear XXX, Welcome to the September Ramsgate Society Newsletter. This month we have had both a talk by Henry Cleary on the award of Heritage Harbour status to Ramsgate and a visit by the Princess Royal just two days before our second talk by Diane Harvey-White on royal...
by Terry Prue | Sep 21, 2024 | News
Ramsgate’s Royal Harbour is the only Royal Harbour in the world and this exhibition brings together stories from around the harbour, land and sea, over its 200-year history. All objects on display are from the collection of the Clock House Museum and many have never...
by Terry Prue | Aug 23, 2024 | News
Inspired by the #RiseUpCleanUp community group in Margate, Cllr. Tricia Austin from Ramsgate Town Council and myself from the Ramsgate Society successfully secured funding from Sea-Changers, a charity focused on reducing coastal plastic pollution. The funding...
by Terry Prue | Aug 21, 2024 | News
Heritage Harbours (including Heritage Inland Ports) is a joint initiative between local groups and Maritime Heritage Trust, National Historic Ships and Historic England to help safeguard and conserve our most historic locations with the buildings, quays, shipyards,...