ELLINGTON PARK
Absolutely love going to this park, there's always a squirrel or two running around! The kids get the best of both worlds, a good play area to play in & plenty of nature to observe. There's loads of work & effort going in to making this a great place to visit from the wood carvings scattered around the park to the under construction wildlife garden! A very big well done & good work to the Friends of Ellington & volunteers alike!
Top 13 Tourist Attractions in Ramsgate - Isle of Thanet, England
Top 13 Tourist Attractions in Ramsgate - Isle of Thanet, England: Ramsgate Tunnels, The Micro Museum, Ramsgate Royal Harbour & Marina, Ramsgate Main Sands, Sailors Church, Shrine of St Augustine, King George VI Memorial Park, Ramsgate Maritime Museum, York Street Gallery, The Grange, Ellington Park, Monkton Nature Reserve
Haunted Kent - Ellington Park - Horrible History and Investigation
I was going to start writing, but the snow has fallen, I am stuck indoors and the muse of writing hasn't visited
so here we have an experience from the mid 1990s..was it really over 20 years ago....
A Horrible history of Ellington Park in Ramsgate and an investigation that we carried out there.
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Places to see in ( Ramsgate - UK )
Places to see in ( Ramsgate - UK )
Ramsgate is a seaside town in the district of Thanet in east Kent, England. Ramsgate was one of the great English seaside towns of the 19th century. Ramsgate’s main attraction is its coastline, and its main industries are tourism and fishing. The town has one of the largest marinas on the English south coast, and the Port of Ramsgate has provided cross-channel ferries for many years.
Ramsgate is located 78 miles from central London in an east south-easterly direction at one of the most easterly points of the United Kingdom (the furthest point east is Lowestoft in Suffolk). The town is an amalgamation of two settlements: a fishing community on the coast in the shallow valley between two chalk cliffs, and an inland farming community that is now the Parish of St Lawrence. The cliffs are known as the East Cliff and the West Cliff and are predominantly residential areas.
Ramsgate's main attraction is its coastline, particularly Ramsgate Main Sands, which was awarded a Blue Flag in 2015. Ramsgate's wartime deep shelter tunnels are open to the public for tours, which have been running since 2014. The local council publishes a website specifically aimed at tourists visiting Ramsgate and neighbouring towns. There is an annual regatta event based at Ramsgate during the summer. Ramsgate has developed a continental café style culture with bars and restaurants on its seafront parade. Ramsgate carnival is an annual parade that takes place during the summer.
The Port of Ramsgate has a 700 berth marina, Royal Harbour Marina, and a ferry terminal built on reclaimed land. Ramsgate is connected to the national road network primarily through the A299 Thanet Way, which continues on to the M2/A2 for the M25 (approx 1 hour) and London. Ramsgate railway station is situated at the top of the town near the parish of St Lawrence.
Alot to see in ( Ramsgate - UK ) such as :
Ramsgate Maritime Museum
The Grange, Ramsgate
Dover Castle
Ramsgate Harbour railway station
Ramsgate Tunnels
King George VI Memorial Park
Government Acre
Sundowner
The Micro Museum
UpDown Gallery
Ramsgate Boulevard
Ellington Park
Ramsgate Bandstand
Royal Victoria Pavilion
West Pier Lighthouse
Winterstoke Gardens
Ramsgate Royal Harbour & Marina
Ramsgate Main Sands
Sailors Church
Sandwich and Pegwell Bay National Nature Reserve
( Ramsgate - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Ramsgate . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Ramsgate - UK
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Ellington Park won People's Millions - Ramsgate 2013
Bid from the Friends of Ellington Park to create a wildlife garden in the Park broadcast on ITV Meridian
Miniature Railways of Great Britain Ramsgate & District Model Engineering Club
This railway can be found in the Ellington Park Ramsgate.
The A4 loco is battery powered,but still a nice model.
Ellington Road, Ramsgate
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Ellington Park - May Fayre - 18 May 2013
Ellington Park in Ramsgate
Ramsgate - King George 5th Park & Ramsgate Harbour - Aerial DRONE View Montage! #5
This is small montage of King George 5th Park & Ramsgate Harbour from a drone. I hope you enjoy :)
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Ellington School Ramsgate
The derelict school soon to be demolished.
Resting Place - Ellington Park
A short documentary film of the first Resting Place event on March 23rd 2014
Resting Place is a series of individual live performances of contemporary movement, spoken word and art installation, taking place sporadically over two years in response to events written in the diary of First World War VAD nurse, Clarice Spratling, and the journey she made.
The first event took place in Ramsgate with a celebration at the Bandstand outside her home in Ellington Park responding to ideas of a young woman leaving home and heading off to war.
For more information about Resting Place see the website restingplace.eu
Lead artist: Dawn Cole
Movement Director: Roanna Mitchell
Performer: Niamh Lynam Cotter
Spoken word: Harry Vendryes
Film footage: Fae Harmer
Film by: Fae Harmer
Sound: Nathan Harmer
Resting Place is made in collaboration with Platform-7 and is supported with public funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England
Stroll Round Ellington Park at Battle for Victory 2017
walking round Ellington park with the Royal West Kent's at Battle for Victory Sunday 9th July
About Britain - Country Ways - The Isle of Thanet in February (5) TVS Production 1985
About Britain - Country Ways - The Isle of Thanet in February (5) TVS Production 1985. The TVS logo is a registered trademark of Steve Woodgate, CEO of TVS Television.
Ellington Park Miniature Railway 21/07/2015 - LMS 7436 awaiting in the sidings feat LNER 4498
Have you guys ever been to Ellington Park in Ramsgate before? One of my nears used to live near Ellington Park and also some of my cousins live near Ellington Park in Ramsgate :-). Enjoy the video :-)
Viking Village (1959)
Ellington Park, Ramsgate, Kent.
Various shots of people in Viking costume including two girls in rather scanty outfits. They are at a reconstruction of a Viking settlement. Some Vikings use primitive tools to show how a blacksmith of the time would work. The two young Viking dolly birds seem to be making bread. An old crone walks past the camera carrying a bundle of sticks on her back.
C/U of Viking woman stirring a pot which hangs above a fire. Man sits beside her combing his long beard (Viggo Hendriksen). Schoolboy in contemporary clothes runs in and tugs his beard. Narrator describes him as a juvenile delinquent from another age.
C/Us of a woman in Viking dress who is weaving on an old fashioned loom. All of these descendants of Vikings come from the village of Frederikssund in Denmark. They are in Britain to give a performance of The Saga of Amled. Various shots of the actors and actresses preparing for a show. It is rumoured that Shakespeare's Hamlet is lifted wholesale from this much older work. Shots of the performers at work.
L/S of a group of Vikings walking across a stretch of grass. They draw swords and a pretend battle ensues. Lots of clashing of swords.
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A film Promoting Ramsgate as a holiday resort, 1950's -- Film 34777
Promotional film for Ramsgate as a holiday resort.
The Marina Pool. Beauty contest including a man in drag. Beauty queens lined up by the pool. Madeira Waterfall and walk. Winterstoke Chine. Beach scenes. Women carry balls down steps to the beach. The Group of women playing with balls on the sand. People in deckchairs. Regatta Yacht race. Motorised dinghis.Royal Harbour with water carnival. Hydroplane race. Car race. Bowling green. Miniature Golf course and putting green. Plane rides from Ramsgate Airport. Greyhound racing, leading out the dogs and start of race. Ballroom full of couples and young people dancing/jiving. Traditional old time dancing. Ramsgate carnival with fancy dress and decorated floats. Beauty queen on float. Model of a ram (sheep) on one of the floats (for Ram-sgate).
Broadstairs History Walk - teaser!
A teaser before attending
Broadstairs history walk
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Hidden History - The Ramsgate Tunnels Above & Below Tour, Ramsgate, Kent
Hidden History - The Ramsgate Tunnels Above & Below Tour
The Ramsgate Tunnels (1863-1965)
Ramsgate, Kent
Saturday 12th May, 2018
Yesterday The Team at Hidden History participated in an arranged tour of The Ramsgate Tunnels entitled The Above & Below Tour. The aim of the tour was to walk the tunnel network above ground learning more about surrounding history before heading into other areas of the vast network underground. We started the tour near the furthest Westcliff entrance and made our way to all other entrances and ventilation airshafts. Many of the entrances and airshafts are now completely inaccessible however renovation plans by the organisation may look to open them to the public in future. Eventually we arrived at the St Luke's entrance on Boundary Road where we desended the ladder underground. Witnessing this area of the tunnels for the first time was incredibly overwhelming with plenty of iconic features and periodic graffiti. My personal highlight was the intact Wardens Post situated just near the entrance way. Towards the end of this network it become apparent that we had arrived at the main Victorian Railway Tunnel known during World War II as Tunnel Town. This area was great to learn more about the stories and people that played a part in the Ramsgate Tunnel story.
Overall it was a superb opportunity for The Team to learn more about local histories and discover additional areas of network that are closed to the public. I would like to say a special thanks to The Ramsgate Tunnels for such an informative and all round amazing experience.
Below I have included some history surrounding The Ramsgate Tunnels and we hope you all enjoy our experience.
The History of The Ramsgate Tunnels:
The Tunnel Railway (also known as the Ramsgate Cliff Railway, the Ramsgate Tunnel Railway, the Ramsgate Underground Railway and the World Scenic Railway) was a 2 ft(610 mm) narrow-gauge underground railway in Ramsgate, Kent, England. Following the restructuring of railway lines in Ramsgate in 1926, the section of line between Broadstairsand Ramsgate Harbour including a tunnel to the seafront at Ramsgate was abandoned. The narrow-gauge Tunnel Railway was opened within the disused tunnel in 1936 to connect tourist attractions and shops near Ramsgate harbour with the new railway main line at Dumpton Park.
Except for its two stations—one at each end of the tunnel—the line ran entirely underground. The line was built in less than three months, and on its completion in 1936 was one of the shortest independent railway lines in the country. It was open for only three years before being converted to a major air-raid shelter during World War II. After the war's end, it was not included in the 1948 nationalisation of British railways but remained in private hands.
Passenger numbers fell during the 1960s, and the line became economically unviable. Following a train crash in 1965, the owners closed the line at the end of September that year. The tunnel still exists, but no trace remains of either of the two stations.
Wartime:
In the late 1930s, war between Britain and Germany began to seem likely. Ramsgate's location on both the English Channel and North Sea and its proximity to the Thames Estuary, its large port facilities, and its close proximity to RAF Manston made it a likely target for heavy aerial bombing and as a landing site for any German invasion of Britain. With this in mind the town's borough engineer and surveyor, R. D. Brimmell, devised a scheme in 1938 for a network of tunnels beneath the town, to serve as a vast deep-level air-raid shelter for the town's inhabitants.
A 3 1⁄4-mile (5.2 km) semi-circular network of tunnels was dug beneath northern Ramsgate, connecting to the existing railway tunnel. It was opened by the Duke of Kent on 1 June 1939, three months before the outbreak of war, and visited during the war by Winston Churchill. The network was capable of sheltering 60,000 people, although Ramsgate's civilian population at the time was approximately 33,000.
Ramsgate Holidays 1968 - 75
This is a cine film of myself (as a toddler) and family, in Ramsgate, Kent from approx 1968 - 75. Ellington Park & just outside? Model Village from different years. Pleasurama - Merrie England amusement park. Donkey rides and train ride on the beach with shots of the Casino/ amusement arcade.