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...
