by Terry Prue | Dec 23, 2025 | Featured, News
You have probably noticed the recent erection of three new Ramsgate Blue Plaques dedicated to Spencer Gore, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Jane Austen. In each case there has been an enthusiastic proposer for us to include a new plaque and we want to open the process...
by Terry Prue | Dec 23, 2025 | News
If you happened to be wandering up the High Street towards the end of November you may have noticed the installation of, what is now, the 30th Ramsgate Society Blue Plaque. You may be surprised there are so many, and that the list keeps growing! They are very tangible...
by Terry Prue | Nov 24, 2025 | News
Dame Janet in her manorial robes and ‘Destiny’ when freshly carved in 1917 and before placement in Albion Gardens. Images in the public domain There are over 100,000 memorials in Britain to the millions killed in the Great War but only one depicting a female figure...
by Terry Prue | Nov 24, 2025 | News
Photo: by Susanne Ford of Maxine and Guy with the spoils Our litter pick on Saturday 25th October successfully collected 43 sacks of rubbish and 7 (yes seven!) shopping trollies. Not as many families joined us as we would have hoped but the adults were in energetic...
by Terry Prue | Nov 24, 2025 | Featured, News
Paul Lewis at his Ramsgate Society talk in 2023 Why is Wilkie Collins important to Ramsgate? The answer is that this Victorian novelist was a regular visitor to our town and the connection is no less as strong as the link between Broadstairs and his close friend,...
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 | 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...
