...the elusive Lantern

The 'Lantern'

The 'Iron Duke'

Patience is a virtue so they say... Look what arrived, a picture of the elusive lantern in its entirety complete with someone looking at the photographer. But perhaps admiring what must have been something beautiful and unusual.

A photo of the 'Iron Duke' with the building on the right now rendered to protect the brickwork which was beginning to look 'sad' in the 'Belle Vue' days. The lack of flowers and signwriting on the pub with the disappearance of the tall balcony roofing on the next door building completes the change. The iron street furniture has also long since gone...the Lantern was still there though! I'll try and take a photo of what's left, next week.

I've also managed to get a photo of early Bellevue Road with a furniture shop, electrical contractors showroom, chemist and a dairy. What a local shopping centre it must have been! I'll publish it next time.

patience...is a virtue?

Do you know this technology when working is a boon, when it isn't it's a pain in the a**e. At least I'm learning patience, something I haven't been very good at!
On picking up the paper this morning one of the enclosures that dropped out was a little book called 'Google for dummies' and there's mee thinking it was just another search engine, Think again, it would appear they can do almost anything associated with computing on the blessed internet. I thought I'd spend a bit of time updating my knowledge on things like U tube etc. About ...hours later I hadn't even tried to upload any of my efforts I was too busy viewing other peoples! Including some local efforts from Ramsgate. I'm sure I could probably do as well if not better than the efforts I have seen. It's given me confidence to have a go, so watch this space in the future and I'll tell you of my virtual cyber adventures...
Other than that, winter is coming it's getting colder and darker ot there.