The Ramsgate Home for Smack Boys
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The Ramsgate Home for Smack Boys
Image: © Keith Edkins Taken: 23 Jun 2015
Look, stop sniggering! Smacks were small boats, and the boys in the crews had nowhere to stay when on shore. It was a very charitable enterprise in 1881.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.33006
Longitude
1.417042