From the audience feedback it is fair to say that Julia Elton held the capacity audience spellbound with her February talk for us on ‘John Smeaton: The Making of an Engineering Genius’.

As a follow up for those who want to delve further in to the history of the construction of Ramsgate Harbour she has very kindly offered to share one of her sources: a paper by Robert B. Matkin delivered to the Newcomen Society in February 1977.

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