Second Floor: Carpets, Travel Goods And Bedding; Material, Soft Furnishings, Restaurant And Teas. Going Down!

So, I believe, went the rousing last verse of the theme tune to 'Are You Being Served?'.

The thing is, though, that Mrs Slocombe wouldn't have had a pussy in hell's chance of using any of the Edwardian cliff lifts here in Ramsgate. Not to put too fine a point on it, they're buggered.

Why are they buggered? Because Thanet Council has failed to maintain them properly.

Frankly, I've seen better run banana republics.