Ramsgate Library

Ramsgate library was originally built and paid for by Andrew Carnegie in 1904. On the evening of Friday 13 August 2004 a fire destroyed Ramsgate library just two months short of its 100th anniversary. Though suspicions were raised as to what started the fire due to a similarly timed fire at the town’s registry office, an inquest concluded that the blaze was too intense to pinpoint where and how the fire started. The new library was built using the shell of the old building and was (re)opened in February 2009.
I witnessed the fire and I am amazed that the new building is externally the same as the old one. Internally it is better than it was.
Telephone cables are everywhere in this town so I leave them in and I am only missing a seagull!!

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