Remembering the Mining Heritage of East Kent

by Terry Prue | Mar 13, 2024

Those relatively new to Ramsgate may be unaware that we have any connection with coal mining but all the main Kent collieries were within 15 miles of us and because they were all in rural locations it was in towns like Deal and Ramsgate that many miners were living....

January 18th Talk on Ramsgate Historic Quarter

by Terry Prue | Dec 19, 2023

We start 2024 with a talk by Robert Milton Wallace, a writer and filmmaker who moved to Ramsgate in 2016. After taking an MSc in Architectural Conservation at the Kent School of Architecture, Robert launched the Ramsgate Historic Quarter regeneration scheme as a joint...

Paul Lewis talk on Wilkie Collins

by Terry Prue | Nov 1, 2023

This talk was planned for last May but had to be cancelled. We are now delighted to welcome the rearranged visit by Paul Lewis. Paul is probably best known as presenter of Radio 4 ‘Moneybox’ but he has also been Secretary of the Wilkie Collins Society for more than 20...

Talk by Laura Probert on Dame Janet Stancomb-Wills: Ramsgate’s Clifftop Amazon

by Terry Prue | Sep 19, 2023

The year 2023 marks the centenary of the appointment of Ramsgate’s (and Kent’s) first female mayor and greatest benefactor, Dame Janet Stancomb-Wills. To commemorate this, Ramsgate Working History have identified inspiring women from the town’s past whose...

Ramsgate Society Talk by Catriona Blaker on Jane Pugin

by Terry Prue | Aug 9, 2023

The Ramsgate Society presents this talk by Catriona Blaker in support of the Ramsgate History Working Group’s ’23 for 23′ celebration which this year is drawing attention to twenty-three leading Ramsgate women, past and present. Jane Pugin is one...