Cliftonville, Kent
Cliftonville photos
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Cliftonville maps
Historic maps of Cliftonville and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Cliftonville maps
Cliftonville books
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Memories of Cliftonville
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1952 souvenir programme from The Lido Theatre
I have inherited a 1952 programme for the Lido Theatre at Cliftonville -presenting 'SUNSHINE SMILES' starring Bunny Baron, Sonny Riley, Jack Stanford and Harry Arnold. Would anyone be interested in having it?
Shared on 08 August 2009
Kent memories
The Lido.. the best place on Earth!
Two of my aunts had guest houses in Cliftonville and every year we ventured from Berkshire by train or by coach via Victoria coach station for our annual holiday in Margate.
My memories are simple and straightforward, to me it was the happiest place on earth.
From the time I saw the noticeboard in Birchington advertising 'What's On' at... [more]
Shared on 03 April 2009
This is one of my endearing images of Margate. I was born at 5 Market Place, which lies just behind the lower white buildings to the centre rear of the photo. It was 1952 and my father was a bus inspector on the East Kent Road Car Co. He loved Margate and the sea air, he was born in Tottenham and... [more]
Shared on 06 January 2009
I came from the north to work in Margate from 70 to 72--at what was then called the Isle of Thanet District Hospital, Margate Wing. For my first 2 months I lived in staff accommodation at the Royal Sea Bathing Hospital. I'm sure that people in far more upmarket accomodation would have killed for the sea view from my... [more]
Shared on 23 October 2008
My grandmother was born in the churchyard - as was my mother and her siblings- well actually in a cottage which abutted the church wall - the family lived in the cottage for almost 100 years until it was condemned and pulled down in the 1920's - they built an air-raid shelter on the site during WWII and now they... [more]
Shared on 28 November 2007
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... [more]
Shared on 16 November 2009
Broadstairs and St Mary's Home 1957
I was 6 years old and had had bronchitis and asthma and so I was sent away from smoggy London to St Mary's Home in Broadstairs. I was taken with other young children on a train by a nurse in a brown uniform. We all slept in dormitories and every Wednesday we had early morning exercises. Sometimes we were taken down... [more]
Shared on 24 October 2009
WERE YOU AT PORT REGIS Convent for delicate girls DURING 1950''''S
I was at Port Regis between 1954 and 1956. I was 8 when I got there and left just before my 10th birthday. Was anyone else at Port Regis, Broadstairs when it was a convent for delicate girls?
I did read one input here, but it was from 1946 I think. The nuns, thinking about it now, resembled Roman Catholic ladies... [more]
Shared on 10 September 2009
Extracts From Cliftonville & Kent books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Cliftonville, inspired by Frith photos.
By the late 1920s, not a bathing machine graces the water's edge in this view of the crowded Margate Sands, looking towards the Harbour with the Pierhead Lighthouse.
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The present footbridge over Newgate Gap was built in 1907; it replaced the one constructed in 1861 by Captain Frederick Hodges. The new bridge shown in this picture was part of the fiftieth anniversary celebrations of Margate's incorporation as a borough.
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Margate is today a bustling seaside resort on the Isle of Thanet, with many miles of sandy beaches, and typical seaside attractions. Once an old fishing village, it was developed in the mid 1700s as the earliest coastal and seabathing resort. The pier, known as the jetty, has now gone, but the wide sweep of the promenade and harbour remains.
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