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...
