What’s on in Thanet this bank holiday weekend and some help from the council

There are several events on this weekend in Thanet, I think the largest is Ramsgate Arts Festival, The Summer Squall Festival, I have had a number of emails about this and have published them on the web for anyone interested, click on the link for them http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/SummerSquallfestival/

The festival also has its own website and here is the link for that http://ramsgateartsfestival.co.uk/

I have tried to get the council to mention this on their main homepage but it hasn’t appeared there yet.

From my point of view, because of my interest in local history, the event that most interests me this weekend is the celebration of Margate Lifeboats 150th anniversary here is the link to their press release http://thanetpress.blogspot.com/2010/08/margate-lifeboat-station-prepares-to.html

This event is on Sunday and I will try to get along and take some pictures.

Many thanks to the council who have put it on their homepage.

The picture above of Quiver No.1, stationed at Margate between 1883 and 1898 Credit to RNLI Margate.

I don’t have a great deal about the work of the Margate Lifeboat in the early days, here in Ramsgate we are lucky to have Storm Warriors of the Goodwin Sands that describes the work of the Ramsgate Lifeboat see http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/catalogue/id333.htm

The lifeboats in this area cooperated considerably and there is an excerpt in The Cry From the Sea and the Answer From the Shore, another book I publish see http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/catalogue/id335.htm I have published the relevant bit at http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/810/id11.htm