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Historic maps of Margate and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Margate maps
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Illustrated Victorian map of Kent
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Margate books
Displaying 3 of 15 books about Margate and the local area. View all Margate books
Margate Town and City Memories
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Kent Revisited Photographic Memories
Paperback
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Around the Kent Coast
Paperback
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5 Margate photos appear in 2 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Margate
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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
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
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
Kent memories
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
Pav's Tea Gardens in St Mildred's Bay was a place where I spent my youth, owned by Herbert Smith the famous film producer, the cafe was full of stills from the films he had worked on, there must have been over three hundred photos covering all the walls. Great music coming from the Rock-ola juke box.
Shared on 16 November 2009
Childhood memories in the 1950s and 1960s
I was born in Dartford and at the age of three I was adopted and brought up in Westgate. I can recall the good old days of the steam trains running through Westgate from London and I can remember running down to the main road running through to Margate by the Walmer Castle pub on a Saturday and Sunday morning around... [more]
Shared on 31 March 2009
St Mildred's Hotel, commonly known as Millies, was a hive of activity in the 1950s/60s when I was a teenager. Joe used to play there for crowds of dance-mad youngsters, sometimes he used his own material which was a bit saucy. We would travel over by train on a Saturday and spend all evening there meeting our friends and then go... [more]
Shared on 27 March 2009
Extracts From Margate & Kent books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Margate, inspired by Frith photos.
Margate Town and City Memories
Even as late as 1957 the 'Royal Daffodil' carried 144,000 passengers down to Margate in a ten-week period. However, with increasing car ownership and organised outings by coach and rail, the steamers proved uneconomic, and the last steamer sailed down from London in 1966.
This is an extract from Margate Town and City Memories.
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Now occupied by the Winter Gardens, the Fort, also known as Fort Green, stood high up on the sea cliff east of Margate Harbour where a gun battery had stood during the Napoleonic wars. The area formed a recreation ground with a central bandstand. The houses of Fort Crescent, which run across this picture, were built in the 1820s—it was the most fashionable part of Margate at that time.
This is an extract from Thanet Pocket Album.
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It is low tide at Margate Harbour, with fishing boats lying in the mud.The Droit House, Pier Hotel (later the Metropole) and the Ship Hotel are visible on the left. The of Whitby stone, and is 909 ft long. It replaced an earlier structure destroyed by a big storm in 1808.
This is an extract from Thanet Pocket Album.
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