St Margarets Bay
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St Margarets Bay books (30 available)
- 10 photos on St Margarets Bay appear in 2 Frith books - View photos of St Margarets Bay
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1945 to 1966
My grandparents, Jabez Smith and Kate his wife owned the post office in Coombe Valley Road, formerly Union Road, before and during the war. Their daughter Rose Moss (my Mother) ran it from the age of sixteen. They also owned and lived in The Bungalow just a half a mile east of St Radiguns Abbey ruins. Apparently it is still there today.
We moved to a small shop in Douglas Road, Tower Hamlets in 1949. My Mother ran that shop until VAT was introduced, I think it was 1977.
I attended Astor School from 1956 to 1960.
I left school and worked at The Crypt Restaurant from 1960 until Bernie Inns took it over.
I then worked for Ted Perry at ...read more here
A memory of Dover contributed by ken moss
Robert William Wells (Shop keeper)
I understand my grand father workedin,orpossibly owned a fishmongers and or grocers aroundabout 1900
can anyone confirm this please and where was it.
Was it his own shop or was he an employee
Does it still stand ,do any photos exist of it
Thankyou
John Wells
A memory of Dover contributed by John Teddyfoot
This was the in place when I was 18
I remember this as being the place to go when we were out for the evening. We used to drink vodka and lime and think we were really cool. It used to get packed out and was really modern and trendy in it's day.
A memory of Dover contributed by Frankie Hilary
Shelter
How could I forget these shelters (there were two of them)? We moved to North Deal in 1954 when I was 10. The shelter at the top of Farrier Street was nearest to me - a place to stand in a storm, I practised hitting hockey balls against the concrete steps, my beloved Granny used to sit on one side and watch the sea, our tenant, in Indian Army officer (retired and without much money) used to sit in the shelter too, very lonely I think, remembering better times. They were the refuge of lovers at night, of fishermen at dawn, of mothers with prams and toddlers on hot summer days. Last time I was in Deal (2007) 'my' shelter ...read more here
A memory of Deal contributed by William Horwood
Extracts From St Margarets Bay & Kent books
One could not be any nearer the sea than
when you stayed at the Lanzarote Boarding
House, the large building on the right of
the photograph. To the left are the winding
steps from the cliff top to the beach.
An extract from from"Around the Kent Coast".
Dressed in their Edwardian finery, are these strollers off to church? The windows of the grand red brick and tiled houses are wide open, which suggests that a welcome cool breeze is coming in off the sea. The chalk cliffs are part of the White Cliffs of Dover. In the 1930s, St Margaret's most famous resident was the playwright and actor Sir Noel Coward.
An extract from from"Kent Revisited Photographic Memories".
This peaceful view of Minster
shows its pleasant old houses.
Minster has the dubious claim to
fame of being the site of the world’s
first fatal motor-car accident.
An extract from from"Thanet Pocket Album".
The original monastic settlement at Minster was founded in AD670,
overlooking Minster Marshes, then the open Wantsum Channel. This
late Victorian view shows the present buildings; they are of Norman age,
built as a grange of St Augustine’s Abbey in Canterbury.The buildings
have been used as a nunnery since 1930.
An extract from from"Thanet Pocket Album".
Built in the 1840s, this row of coastguard
cottages still stands, although Pegwell itself
has been engulfed by Ramsgate.
Smuggling was endemic in Thanet, and
the Revenue was determined to stamp it
An extract from from"Thanet Pocket Album".