Town of Ramsgate Wapping
by Mackenzie Moulton
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Title
Town of Ramsgate Wapping
Artist
Mackenzie Moulton
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
Another painting of the Town of ramsgate from the river done on a course piece of canvas, hence the graining in the picture, but I think that gives it character.
The first pub on the site probably originated during the Wars of the Roses in the 1460s and was called The Hostel. During more peaceful times in 1533 it became known as The Red Cow, a reference to the bar maid working at the time.
The notorious Judge Jeffreys was caught outside the ale house as he tried to escape disguised as a sailor on a collier bound for Hamburg after the Glorious Revolution of 1688, which overthrew King James ll. Presiding over the Bloody Assizes after Monmouth�s unsuccessful rebellion against James ll, Judge Jeffreys had taken great pleasure in sending hundreds to their execution, and in abusing their attorney�s, which was a costly mistake as one of them recognised him resulting in his capture.
In 1766 the pub became known as Ramsgate Old Town and by 1811 it had again took on a new identity known as The Town of Ramsgate. The reference to Ramsgate became about after the fishermen of Ramsgate who landed their catches at Wapping Old Stairs.
They chose to do so as to avoid the river taxes which had been imposed higher up the river close to Billingsgate Fish Market. Ramsgate harbour of 1850 features in the pub sign and is also etched on the mirror near the entrance to the pub.
As for the Wapping Old Stairs next door, they also have a bloody history. If you visit during low tide, you can still see the post to which condemned pirates were chained to drown as the tide rose. The Stairs were made famous in Rawlinson�s cartoon and Dibden�s poems. John Banks came here, with Captain Bligh to inspect the Bounty before purchasing it for the ill-fated voyage to Tahiti.
More happily, many returning sailors were met by their sweethearts on the Old Stairs at the end of a voyage.
The silent question that must have been on many sailor�s lips is answered by a verse on the wall of the pub.
�Your Polly has never been faithless she swears,
since last year we parted on Wapping Old Stairs.�
i also did a black and white sketch of this if you like black and white.
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