I heard also about the fire and apparently the owner also has a couple of other building that burnt down... Such bad luck he has lol
I do remember the model village in Ramsgate, right at the top of the hill that looked down onto the harbour which always seemed to have green water in it. This is really showing my age now but I was very young, but talking of Broadstairs I remember being in a proper ice cream parlour there the ones with the wicker chairs etc and you could get banana splits and knicker bocker glories and the Bee Gees Tragedy came on the juke duke box that they had in there
What school dod you go to? I went to St. Gregory's