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Report - Westcliff Concert Hall/AKA Motor Museum Ramsgate Jan 2012

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Wevsky

A Predisposed Tourist
Regular User
Now I know you’re probably thinking. Another rambling Wevsky intro.Well im not going to disappoint chaps.

This building as it’s in my home town and as a child was just up the road. Shame on you mum and dad for never taking me here as a child. Since I became interested in UE it’s been something I have wanted to visit even though I knew it was stripped bare from its closure in 2006 as I’d seen some pics a friend took early last year when he found his way in, despite that I still wanted a look inside this building I must have wandered past several thousand times since I was old enough to venture out on my own. So it’s been on the list but I’ve never actually put the effort into getting in here up until now and im so glad I did..it has the still semi intact bath’s/toilets which has its original staircase leading up to the now capped off entrance along the promanade,not every ones cup of tea old loo’s etc but the tiling is all original!
Enough from me, here’s some brief History and some snaps from back in the day..

Visited with Obscurity and Mrs Obs




The West Cliff Hall was opened in 1914 as a theatre, concert hall and promenade venue, staging outdoor plays in the garden amphitheatre with indoor weather cover .

The West Cliff Hall and Gardens was one of three indoor/outdoor performance spaces constructed into the cliffs of South East England prior to World War 1 including the Winter Gardens in Margate and Leas Cliff Hall in Folkestone. However, the West Cliff Hall and Gardens is the only site to retain its garden and so keeps its indoor/outdoor performance capabilities making it a unique piece of South East England’s heritage.

The building has been empty since closure of the Ramsgate Motor Museum in 2006,in its previous life as a concert hall amongst others the Rolling stones played here back in 1973 I believe! It has a 600 Square metre terrace which over looks the Port and is the only cliff top hall left in the country. That being said its left rotting at the moment even though there are plans by some actress to open it all back up again as a entertainment venue!

Some old pics

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A modern view

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Now inside
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One of the booths under a balcony

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Main reception area

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Very empty and a bugger to light

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Now some shots some people may overlook of the old baths and toilets
Staircase leading up to the old promenade entrance
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Old signage, well part of it

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And finally one from the terrace

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Thanks for looking :thumb
 

R_yoda

Like a cat on a fence....
28DL Full Member
Nice mate ;) me and obs tried getting in here a few months back! Wish we tried harder now looks nice
 

Wevsky

A Predisposed Tourist
Regular User
the builders have been through it big time,they had a big bin shute going down from the balcony mate..if only access was available some cunt would have ended up going down it
 

silverainbow

Here today, Gone tomorrow
28DL Full Member
We got in toward the end of last year but the room to which we gained access was a dead end
 

FAB

28DL Member
28DL Member
I worked in this theater when it was a car museum (I was a french student). Its owner was a friend.
I feel a little sad to see this building in such a state ... and also to realize that this time is far away
 

Wevsky

A Predisposed Tourist
Regular User
I worked in this theater when it was a car museum (I was a french student). Its owner was a friend.
I feel a little sad to see this building in such a state ... and also to realize that this time is far away

I dread to think what it is like in here now
 

PureFilth

28DL Full Member
28DL Full Member
I'm sorry to wake the dead but that staircase shot is stunning, it's one of those pics I can"t stop looking at. I'd genuinely have that framed.
 

Wevsky

A Predisposed Tourist
Regular User
I'm sorry to wake the dead but that staircase shot is stunning, it's one of those pics I can"t stop looking at. I'd genuinely have that framed.
its not one of my better pics , was shot with a kit lens, but i appreciate the comment
 
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