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The Bookworm (Free subscription) | yesterday
I thought I'd start a series of "from the records" posts to pass on any interesting snippets I find as I trawl through the archives. Before I start, I had better give my village a name - I don't want to use the real name as it is a little too close to home, so I think I'll call it "Bucksbury" to denote a random village in Buckinghamshire. Not very imaginative, but it will do. The...
From One End of Kent (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
I recently had a fabulous journey. I was working in the European Parliament in Brussels at 4.30pm and courtesy of Eurostar and Southeastern trains I was 20minutes early at Thanet Council offices for a 7pm meeting. Even with the advantage of an hour coming back that's fantastic. The last part of my journey was courtesy of Les a taxi driver who may well be the man featured in the Independent . Tracey...
Deefer Dawg (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
With a final flurry of electrics work (lights, central heating thermostat) and then clearing up, the Panini boys finish and depart by about 11:30, off, we are told, to re-supply electrics to an address in Margate which was disconnected when the tenant got busted for owning and running a cannabis factory in there! Brilliant blokes, and very easy to be a around, these guys have done an excellent job...
Eastcliff Richard (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Yesterday's news that Kiwi conglomerate Infratil, the owners of Chas 'n' Dave Margate International Airport, have reported a NZ$31m loss for the first six months of their financial year has cast a serious questionmark over their continued commitment to the 9,029 foot strip of concrete that sits on top of our lovely aquifer. Infratil's portfolio includes energy, buses, and, of course, airports. In Europe,...
Eastcliff Richard (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
With culture minister Margaret Hodge today dishing out the dosh to the Arsonists' Playground [ Whatever happened to the £1.5m lottery funding that was meant to go on tarting up Ramsgate front? - Ed ], I thought I'd apply the old ECR brain cell to finding out a bit of background. Scouring the interbollocks, and eschewing Margate's most fatuous blog (as ever), I landed on the rival site MargateNews.net...
The Journey of Infinite Possibilities (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Our Life On the Estate in Cobham We have been in our new caretaker/housekeeper positions since 5th September and in the full on grip of autumn. Such a beautiful season with colours so spectacular and landscapes so breathtaking ... unless you're the one who has to rake up the leaves EVERY day! It has been a mild, humid autumn which means the weeds have been growing - a new experience for us here! Philip...
Thanet coast life (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
On the Margate Museum website which came be found on google btconnect.com/margatemuseum/researcharchive.html there is an excellent piece of research in "our regular feature" into the life of Bruce Fleet. Who ? you may ask . Well Bruce Fleet like George Hoare and others before him gave his all for the town of Margate when it was needed most. And like George Hoare he played a major role during...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
But can our writer find poetic inspiration there too? "I don't know much about that sort of thing, I'm afraid," says the woman at the Nayland Rock hotel. "I should know about Margate's history, but I don't." I am in Kent looking for the seaside shelter where, in 1921, recuperating from a nervous breakdown, TS Eliot had sat while writing Part III of The Waste Land . "On Margate...
Robert Burgess - KCC Councillor Margate West (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
C I had the privilege of persuading the brilliant Artist, Charles Evans, to come to Kent to paint the beautiful towns of Faversham and Margate. These are to be two episodes of a series, filmed across England. The series called 'Brush up your History ' will be shown on Discovery in January. As well as showing budding Artists tips and techniques to improve their painting skills, Charles visits local...
thanet star (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
This Saturday get yourself down to the Oldest Pub in Margate and help raise money for Kent Air Ambulance. If you get there by about 2pm you should be nice and snug somewhere by the time KMFM's Johnny Lewis shows up. I understand that Jonny boy will be drawing the raffle and helping to announce who has won the £80 bottle of drink (it's big) by guessing how much cash was in the other bottle. I...
BIGNEWS MARGATE (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Ray Parker, another Kent blogger, pointed out on his blog recently that Peter Gilroy KCC Chief Exec had written a letter which appeared in this weekends “Kent on Sunday”, now I don’t know whether you share my view of the role of government employees, whether local or national I feel they should confine their opinions to themselves or their colleagues or political masters. I share...
From One End of Kent (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
It is time for the finest Kent vintage to start being savoured. I have delighted in my first litre bottle of Kent apple juice freshly made in 2009. Pure Discovery apple juice from Broomfield Orchard, CT6 7BA (01227 362279). Do get some if you can, and they have more apple varieties as the season progresses. When we moved into our house the garden had old fruit trees. We tried to nurse them through,...
BIGNEWS MARGATE (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
I have to say I was extremely sceptical that KCC would get a penny back from money rather naively spent, in my opinion on the original project “Turner Contemporary MK1” which would have been a ground breaking experiment (wrong metaphor) as Britain’s first off shore, ocean going art gallery. To me the gallery seemed destined to fail from day one, and also the day a test structure floated...
Eastcliff Richard (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Good news for supporters of Margate's Kunstbunker which is currently rising up on the Rendezvous site. Kent County Council have won £6m back from the architects of Turner Center Mark I, which was going to be built in the North Sea as an extension to the harbour arm (or pier as it used to be called until about a year ago). According to the magazine New Civil Engineer , Norwegian architects Snohetta,...
Latest News (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Norwegian architect Snøhetta and collaborators Ramboll UK and Davis Langdon have agreed to pay Kent County Council £6 million in an out-of-court settlement over the abandoned design for the Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate.
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