by Terry Prue | Feb 20, 2026 | News
For some time now, Phil Shotton, The Ramsgate Society Environment Lead, has been unable to contribute any ‘Climate Matters’ posts but he remains as passionate as ever about the environment and its value to the community. At the recent Planning Inspectorate public...
by Terry Prue | Feb 20, 2026 | Featured, News
Towards the end of January, we sent out an email to our members giving a link to details of a local group who were planning to submit a bid for Thanet as a whole to pitch to be the national ‘City of Culture’ in 2029. That email also invited you to complete a survey to...
by Terry Prue | Feb 20, 2026 | News
Response to our regular talks is invariably positive but not always just in the direction anticipated. This is a slide from near the end of the excellent presentation from Dr Clive Nuttman on Monkton Nature Reserve. After a lively and entertaining journey through the...
by Terry Prue | Dec 23, 2025 | 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...
