Ramsgate During the 80s (2023)

I’m going to ask you a question at the end of this column…and I’m genuinely excited about the answers.

Let’s talk about the past.

It’s the late 1980s and I’m sitting outside Woolworths on Ramsgate High Street watching a man dressed as a chicken taking on Morris, the lovable town drunk, in a fight over a Kazoo. At least, I THINK the fight is about the Kazoo: at the moment, it’s pretty difficult to tell.