Ramsgate - Tunnels? Arches? Under Marina Road

[blitzbob]

The arches are road support, and used as part of the beer garden for storage. and a arcade used part of them, not neros they never used them. Neros was used as a Red cross clearing station from Dunkirk. The Tunnel Railway stopped running after an accident. My brother was running the cartoon cinema on the front in the 60s and was going to take over the railway for a season but the accident stopped that.

bob

[fortknox0]

Hope this helps.....

[tio89]

Was there a link to the air raid tunnels from the arches? Is it me but the little arched rooms have really hollow walls dont you think? Were the walls in them rooms built to block a tunnel of some sort?

[Monkton Malc]

Not sure if I have put this in the right place but it's the thread with the pictures of the tunnel railway on.

After the first bit on this film about Ramsgate airport, you will see the tunnel railway in operation. One thing I can say is I have been on that

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=77179

[fortknox0]

Was there a link to the air raid tunnels from the arches? Is it me but the little arched rooms have really hollow walls dont you think? Were the walls in them rooms built to block a tunnel of some sort?

Hi Tio, no theres no link into the tunnels from the arch's, although its widely believed localy that there once was and its been blocked up. Iv been in the old train tunnel quite afew times and theres definately no where where it links up to the archs. They are literally just arch's under the road im afraid. Most of the rumours iv heard seem to derive from the Ramsgate Sands Train Station, and the archs being a platform. However these were further down nearer the former pleasurama site.

[RadioactiveKiddie]

Here are a couple of images of the 'arches' area of Ramsgate front (behind the former Nero's plot) showing how it is now & how it looked in the 1960's...     




 

I collect images (& footage) of this area of Ramsgate, East Cliff seafront, Pleasurama (Merrie England) & especially Ramsgate Tunnel Railway, so if anyone has anything, photos etc I'd love to see them & I'd be happy to share mine..... PM me..

[Paul Narramore]

The second picture brought back happy memories for me. During the 60s a friend and I used to race our bikes around our favourite circuit along the seafront and round the Marina hairpin, up the hill and along Wellington Crescent, down the hill past Albion House then back past the harbour onto the seafront. Happy times. The wilful destruction of this once superb seafront is an act of criminal desecration.

[Paul]

I remember me and my Grandad sitting outside that Bar me with a Pint and him with a Pepsi

I was about 6,I remember thinking id like to live in that Chalet thing above the bar,And ending up with lines on my legs from those chairs..

[kenty]

The second picture brings back memories to me too - we used to have relatives in Ramsgate and spent our holidays there most years until I was about 13 - can remember sitting outside at those tables drinking pepsi and eating cheese and onion crisps after a hard day on the beach...

The first picture  makes me feel sad...

[Paul Narramore]

The long white building on the top of the cliff is the Granville Theatre, now the town's only cinema I understand, and our house was 100yds behind that. During the summer holidays, sometimes we'd walk to the beach via Jacobs Ladder dressed in just our swimming trunks and carrying a towel, not even anything on our feet. I remember the morning when we'd heard that Jacob's Ladder had collapsed during the night.

We used to eat gravel for breakfast......

[lanky man]

amazing then and now photos, to think it used to look like that and now its just another thanet eye sore!