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HURSTVILLE AND ST
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Sunday, January 09, 2011 12:33:39 PM
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of the engines ended up near Margate Street.
We learnt to swim in the pool at Ramsgate and the public Baths at Brighton
and Ramsgate. Ramsgate Baths 1926 . No, I am not in the picture.
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McDonald Street Ramsgate, my grandparent's home, till the 60's.
Ramsgate Rd 1915
The shopping centre of Ramsgate began to develop in 1887. Ramsgate's development
improved when they built the causeway across Beverly Park in 1906.
Ramsgate Road was extended to Botany Bay in 1907. Steam trams were used to get
around but because they were unclean and belching out smoke they
were replaced by the trolley buses in 1937.
The other way across the Georges River was Tom Ugly's Bridge, see the below
the punt that did that job then now the Tom Ugly's Bridge takes you over the
river. 
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