games that season. Press Wanderers finished as runners up and were promoted to Div. 1 for the 1933/34 season. Two Thousand people saw Ramsgate Press Wanderers first home match v Folkestone. Higher-class players were signed and the club had a good season, doing well in the league and reaching the Kent Senior Cup semi final. The club decided to look for even better players and signed C. Poynton, an experienced player with Tottenham, as player manager, for the 1934/35 season. Councillor Percy Turner was elected as the new chairman. Despite good performances and results that season, the club had poor support and financial problems, even though admission prices had been reduced. Before the start of the 1935/36 season, it was hoped that Fulham would make the club its nursery, similar to that of Margate with Arsenal, but it did not come about. While Southern League Margate had a championship-winning season, Ramsgate Press Wanderers were at the bottom of the Kent League. Having lost £6000 over three years, the club folded up and Dumpton stadium was sold. Following the demise of Press Wanderers and Margate, in 1938, amateurs Ramsgate Grenville, in Div. 2 of the Kent League, provided the senior football in Thanet. They were runners up in 1938/39 and won the Kent Amateur Cup in 1940, beating Lloyd Paper Mills 7-3. The war caused an end to football until 1945.

In March 1945, Eddie Butcher called a meeting to revive senior football in Ramsgate. A committee was formed and fund raising events took place. Ramsgate Athletic Club was formed, to embrace football and other sports. The team played at Southwood and