The Post in The Centre of The Bay
I am not sure which grandfather it was (how many greats do you want?) but the old part of my family, the Strevens, have lived in Broadstairs for the last five hundred years, and have the honour of having erected the post in the middle of the bay. This was one of five snubbing posts that allowed the barges to warp right up to the pier where they loaded tar and coke from the gas works at the top of Harbour Street (now a car park). The tar pipe is still visible in the side of the pier where it used to run down the hill still hot from the coke ovens, and into the barges.
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My sister and I walked the cliffs from Ramsgate to Broadstairs many times with the dawn in the early 1960s. I remember visiting Charles Dickens's House and that Edward Heath the P.M. was from Broadstairs.
Comment from David Eustace on Monday, 19th December 2011.