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,...
by Terry Prue | Aug 21, 2024 | News
For those who were unable to come to the AGM that followed the talk on progress with the Clock House and Maritime Museum, we have posted the chairman’s review of the Society’s activities over the last year. You will be able to read and print out this report in...
by Terry Prue | Aug 21, 2024 | Newsletter
Dear xxxx, Welcome to the August Ramsgate Society Newsletter. It’s high summer season for the Town and we are limiting our own Ramsgate Society public activities but there is much else to enjoy. The Ramsgate Festival of Sound kicks off from August 22nd and you can...
by Terry Prue | Aug 21, 2024 | Newsletter
Dear XXXX, Welcome to the July Ramsgate Society Newsletter. With holidays for many on the way we hope you can find the time to read the Tall Ships Festival Feasibility Study (free to download) and to think of people to enter into your nominations for the Community...
by Terry Prue | Aug 1, 2024 | History, News
There are three talks coming up in September. All are FREE but the two from the Ramsgate Society require pre-booking. Click on ‘Events’ on the index page of this website for more details of content and speakers plus links for the two that require...
by Terry Prue | Jul 22, 2024 | Climate Matters, News
There are some that believe either that the facts that the earth is warming aren’t true, or give it different interpretations, such as this warming being due to a natural cycle in Earth’s climate, despite all the scientific consensus to the contrary. These...
by Terry Prue | Jul 22, 2024 | Featured, News
Those members who attended the presentation by Tall Ships Global at the San Clu on 20th June will recall how well the idea of a Ramsgate Tall Ships Festival was received and supported. The presentation was the result of a Feasibility Study commissioned by The Ramsgate...
by Terry Prue | Jun 21, 2024 | Climate Matters, News
In December 2015 196 parties at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris adopted the Paris Agreement, a legally binding international treaty on climate change. Its overarching goal is to hold “the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above...
by Terry Prue | Jun 21, 2024 | Newsletter
Dear XXXX, Welcome to the June Ramsgate Society Newsletter. As always, a lot to share with you and we hope we will see many of you on July 25th when there will be an update on the Clock House / Maritime Museum followed by (optional attendance for members only...
