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19 November 2023
Margate Postcards

Milton Road back of, St Barnabas Mission Church 1907	Buckingham Road jnc with Ramsgate Road	Birds Avenue, Garlinge 1922	Lido Bathing Pool 1959

Lido Cliff Cafe 1936	Cliff Terrace 1910	Dane Park [Wheeler]	Ethelbert Terrace and gardens

5 November 2023
Margate Postcards

King Street Fire Station, Chief Officer Wells Funeral June 1 1914	Queens Promenade, Cumberland Turf Bowling Greens 1939	Pembroke Avenue, Westbrook	Trinity Church, War Memorial Dedication Service

Westbrook Promenade and Pavilion 1938	Westbrook Promenade, Sunken Gardens	Wilderness Hill, Princess Mary's Rehabilitation block	Wilderness Hill, Princess Mary's Convalescent Home Gardens

22 October 2023
Margate Postcards

End of Jetty [Percy Redjeb]	Firebrigade Funeral at Trinity Church	Fort and Paragon [Shenley]	Gordon Road line at Hereward and Cliftonville Hotel stables

Harbour and ships, 1916 [LL, colour]	Lower Northdown Road, Montrose Ladies College [ LL]	Newgate Gap Bathing Platform from sands, 1903, [LL]	Newgate Gap, New Bridge 1908

8 October 2023
Margate Postcards

Droit Housue and entrance to Pier	Second Avenue and Butlins Cliftonville Court Hotel	Shottendane Road and Railway Convalescent Home 1968	St John's Church, old drawing

Holy Trinity Church interior 1920	Trinity Square No 12	The Harbour with cart and cranes	The Parade 1958

24 September 2023
Margate Postcards

Royal Sea Bathing Hospital frontage	Royal Sea Bathing Hospital courtyard	Royal Sea Bathing Hospital October 1947	Dent de Lion, Garlinge 1926

Canterbury Road, St James Church interior	Canterbury Road, St James Church interior	Westbrook Parade and Pavilion, 1931	Westbrook Promenade, Westonville Pavilion

10 September 2023
Margate Postcards

Aerial view Palm Bay	Queen's Parade [Promenade], LL 1909	Queen's Promenade Aerial view	Queen's Promenade

Queen's Promenade	Royal Crescent and Bathing Station 1973	Royal Crescent and Nayland Rock Hotel	Royal Crescent and Nayland Rock Hotel [Trust House]

27 August 2023
Margate Postcards

Sea View Terrace Westwood BH	Victoria Road Cottage Hospital 1920	Walpole Bay Bathing Pool	Walpole Bay Bathing Station

Walpole Bay and bathing huts	Walpole Bay, sports on the sands	Walpole Bay bathing pool	Walpole Bay and bathing pool 1954

13 August 2023
Walpole Bay Margate Postcards

Walpole Bay and Queens Parade from the air 1930	Walpole Bay Queens Bandstand	Walpole Bay Bathing Pool	Walpole Bay Bathing Station

Walpole Bay and Bathing Platform 1964	Walpole Bay and Bathing Platform	Walpole Bay and Bathing Platform	Walpole Bay and Bathing Pool

30 July 2023
Margate Postcards

Parade from Lighthouse 1907	Parade with crowded Tram	Parade with slipway	Princes Walk

Queen's Gardens Butlins Queens Highcliffe Hotel	Queens Gardens High Cliffe Hotel [LL 1906]	Queens Gardens Queens Highcliffe Hotel	Percy Road Cleveland Court

16 July 2023
Margate Postcards

Clock Tower [pre trams]	Clocktower and Albert Terrace 1958	Clocktower and Marine Drive 1958	Oval and Queens and Highcliffe Hotels

Oval band 1955	Oval [LL 1916]	Royal Esplanade, No 22 Lourdes House	Royal Esplanade, Westbrook Bowling and Putting Green

2 July 2023
Margate Palm Bay Postcards

Palm Bay Bathing Pavilion 1930	Palm Bay Bathing Station 1957	Palm Bay Bungalow 1967	Palm Bay Bathing Station and Bungalow

Palm Bay Cliffs 1934	Palm Bay Bathing Pavilion	Palm Bay Prince's walk 1939	Palm Bay Sands 1919

18 June 2023
Margate Marine Terrace Postcards

Marine Terrace 1965	Marine Terrace Land Train	Marine Terrace, line of people on sands	Marine Terrace 1931

Marine Terrace and Station 1904	Marine Terrace sands 1939	Marine Terrace sands looking west	Marine Terrace upper, YMCA September 1914

4 June 2023
Margate Jetty Postcards

Jetty Bandstand [LL 1917]	Jetty and Camera Obscura 1914	Jetty entrance 1969	Jetty and lifeboat house with three ships

Life boat house, Lord Southborough, Fort Arcade at rear	Jetty with naval ships off, 1920	Jetty end with yacht, 1902	Jetty with Royal Daffodil

21 May 2023
Margate Postcards

Winter Gardens 1958	Winter gardens Pavilion 1915 interior	Fort Hill, Trinity Church and Classic cinema	Fort Hill, looking to Harbour

Harbour, Boating Pool and Lighthouse, 1948	Harbour with steam cranes and Droit House	Jetty, The Husbands Boat	Jetty walkway, rough sea 1 Sept 1905

4 May 2023
Coronation Events

Cecil Square Proclamation of King George V 1910	Cecil Square Proclamation of King George V 1910	Cecil Square Coronation King George V 1911	Cecil Square Coronation King George V 1911

Isle of Thanet Tramway decorated for Coronation 1911	Eagle Steamers and Queen Line Sailings from Margate and Ramsgate. Coronation May 1937	Drapers Farmhouse decorated for the Coronation of George VI 1937	Queen Street Bobbys decorated for Coronation 1953

Cecil Square bus stand decorated for Coronation 1953	Cecil Square bus stand decorated for Coronation 1953	Dane Hill Row Coronation street party Certificate	Milton Avenue Coronation street party 1953

Silver Jubilee naming of Margate Lifeboat 1979	Silver Jubilee naming of Margate Lifeboat 1979	Silver Jubilee naming of Margate Lifeboat 1979	Silver Jubilee naming of Margate Lifeboat 1979

16 April 2023
Margate Postcards

Hawley Square, No 6 Mrs Bell	Hawley Square 1921	Hodges Bridge, Bungalow 1955	Hodges Bridge, Bungalow Tea Gardens 1952

Hodges Bridge, Flagstaff and Bungalow 1908	Northumberland Avenue, Northumberland Hotel drawing 1957	Queens Gardens, Queen's Highcliffe Hotel kitchen staff	Queens Gardens, Queen's Highcliffe Neptune's Bar Butlins 1958

26 March 2023
Margate Postcards

Winter Gardens digging chalk [Houghton]	Winter Gardens building [July 1911]	Winter Gardens, work on west side	Winter Gardens pavilion, side view 1911

Winter Gardens, central space 1913	Eastern Esplanade, Cliftonville hydro 1906	Eastern Esplanade, Cliftonville Hydro	Hodges Bridge, Flagstaff

12 March 2023
Margate Postcards

Ethelbert Crescent, view to the Lido	Dreamland Football (Belgrave Rd in background) [info Chris Sandwell]	Football Team 1904-5 1905-6 St John's Guild	King Street, Sopers Yard, Churchill Day Centre interior

Marine Terrace Sun Deck	Northdown House and hunt	Northdown Road 220-228 Brandybucks diner (old Bobbys building)	Parade and Marine Drive, Lifeboat

26 February 2023
Margate Postcards

High Street Garlinge and The Rodney 1930s	Manston Road, Cemetery Surfboat Memorial	Marine Terrace and Clocktower 1960s	Lower Marine Terrace

Upper and Lower Marine Terrace 1939	Northdown Road top end	Hodges Bridge and bungalow	Walpole Bay 1911

12 February 2023
Margate Postcards

Harold Road, Godwin College September 1923	Marine Terrace Clocktower and Gardens	MarineTerrace, repair of overhead wires for Trams 1924	Market Place and Town Hall

Queens Gardens, Monoplane over Queens Highcliffe Hotel 1913	Newgate Gap Pettmans Bathing stage 1908	Queens Promenade 1911 [LL]	Parade, with East Kent buses

29 January 2023
Margate Postcards

Harbour 1905	Hartsdown Road All Saints Church	Hartsdown Road rally 1931	Hodges Gap

Marine Drive 1959	Queens Gardens Queens Highcliffe, Neptunes Bar Butlins 1958	Westbrook Gardens Westonville	Westcliffe Gardens Westbrook 1961

15 January 2023
Margate Postcards

Eastern Esplanade, Hydro staff 1911	Edgar Road Hatherley Hotel interior	Ethelbert Crescent No 24, Cumberland Court Hotel	Lido Cliff Cafe March 1945

Norfolk Road, Lonsdale Court Hotel	Northdown, The Wheatsheaf	The Parade [GP Hoare Series]	The Parade with tram lines
1 January 2023
Photographs from the Chris Brown Archive

No 5-13 High Street Bombed 1st June 1943	John Brown 13 & 15 High Street Rebuilt	Holy Trinity Church interior 1895	Holy Trinity Church, extension of 1902

Fort Bandstand on the future Winter Gardens site, 1886	Construction of Winter Gardens 1911	Hodges Gap Bridge,c1900	Margate Harbour with 'Moss Rose' (right) c1880-90
18 December 2022
Photographs from the Chris Brown Archive

Fort Green and Goat Chaises 1878	Gurney, Poulterer Hawley Street c1890	Marine Drive c1890	Marine Palace after storm of 29th November 1897

Sanger's Hall By The Sea 1875	The old Market viewed from Market Street [demolished 1896]	The old Market viewed from New Cross Street [demolished 1896]	Trinity Square 1881
4 December 2022
Photographs of Dane Park

Dane Park, Fountain and Buildings	Dane Park Fountain	Dane Park Fountain	Dane Park Pond

Dane Park Pond	Dane Park Gardens	Dane Park Gardens and Fountain	Dane Park Gardens and Tennis Courts
20 November 2022
Margate Postcards

Edgar Road [Paragon Series]	Grosvenor Place, Maryville [1911]	Norfolk Road [Paragon Series]	Northdown Road [1929]

Queens Promenade [1910]	Surrey Road [1920s]	Surrey Road No 5, Guildford Hotel	Trinity Square War Memorial [1924]
6 November 2022
Margate Postcards

Belgian wounded soldiers and refugees [WW1]	Garlinge Railway Crossing [1926]	Lewis Crescent and cliff top	Marine Terrace and Bathing Pavilion [1947]

Queens Hotel and Oval from the air	Trinity Square church and war memorial	Union Crescent Salvation Army Band	Westbrook Promenade and beach [1936]
23 October 2022
The Royal Hotel and Asembly Rooms before and after the fire of 28 October 1882

Assembly Rooms Programme P 1 [1882, pre fire]	Assembly Rooms Programme P 2, 3 [1882, pre fire]	Assembly Rooms Programme P 4 [1882, pre fire]	The Ball Room [pre fire]

Cecil Square after the fire	Plan of replacement Royal Assembly Rooms	Royal Assembly Rooms interior [Wheeler, stereo]	Event in Cecil square, showing adjacent temporary building
A fuller description of the Assembly Rooms, the fire, and the subsequent building of the Hippodrome can be read here Margate Assembly Room Fire.
9 October 2022
Margate Postcards

Kings Liverpool Regiment at Palm Bay April 1915	Kings Liverpool Regiment at Dane Park May 1915	Kings Liverpool Regiment at Deaf and Dumb School May 1915	College Road Boys Central School

Eastern Esplanade, Oval with wicker fence	Edgar Road, Surrey Court Hotel, interior	Norfolk Road, Northdown Hall 1911	Norfolk Road, Southwood 1910
25 September 2022
Margate Postcards

Dalby Square, Huntly House Temperance Hotel [1914]	Hodges Bridge, Bungalow and Tea Verandah	New Cross Street No 13, GF Knight baker	Royal Crescent, Nayland Rock Hotel [1911]

Royal Crescent and Westbrook Promenade	Lewis Crescent, Butlins Cliftonville Court Hotel	Victoria Road, Deaf School in the snow	Westbrook, Promenade and Tea Lounge [1938]
11 September 2022
Margate Postcards

Surrey Road, Cosy Bungalow No 28 [1908]	Surrey Road, Embassy Hotel No 50-52,interior	Surrey Road, The Leslie [1915]	Sweyn Road, Sweyn Lodge [1912]

Upper Marine Terrace	Upper Marine Terrace, Marina [1927]	Upper Marine Terrace, Shaftesbury House garden [1912]	Victoria Avenue, Northdown [1909]
28 August 2022
Margate Ephemera

Savings Certificate, Mayor 1914	Service of Intercession August 1918	Flyer for Surflens Bathing Machine,opposite the White Hart	Royal Assembly Rooms, Dissolving Views ca 1867

Theatre Royal Masquerade 1804	Theatre Royal Masquerade 1814	Theatre Royal, Poster 1827	Theatre Royal and Opera House, Poster
14 August 2022
Margate Ephemera

Sale of coal from the Eden 1840	Poster for Whites Circus Aug 1 1846 Long Mill Lane	Improvement of Paradise Street and Fort Road 1934	Poster Sea Bathing Infirmary Sermon Ebenezer Chapel 1827

Theatre Royal Poster 1812	Theatre Royal Poster 1823	Theatre Royal Poster 1824	Theatre Royal Poster 1824
31 July 2022
Margate Ephemera

Cobb and Son Maritime Agents Netherlands and France	Election Poster for Saunders Fort Ward	Christadelphian Hall Hawley Street Lantern Lecture	Margate Bank 21 Feb 1786 pay £402 19s at one month notice

Margate Isle of Thanet Bank Bill of Exchange 1799	Pier Hotel Hudson 1844	Poster 1914 Margate attack from sea	Princes Walk opening 1926
17 July 2022
Some more Margate Ephemera

Bobby and Co Margate; bill, 1908	Dreamland, programme for Midget Town, 1930s	Kershaw, Fancy Notepaper 1860	Kershaw, Fancy Notepaper 1860

Foresters new hall 1874	Foresters, Thomas Dalby Reeve funeral 1875	Payment of Hair Powder Annual Duty 1801, receipt signed Mummery	Man of Kent Temperance Hotel, Upper High Street, advertising card, 1880s
3 July 2022
Some Margate Ephemera

Asylum for Deaf and Dumb Prizes ticket 1891	Bathing Machine Benjamin Beale 1752	Thomas Hubbard Bathing Rooms [ex Wood]	Bettison and Son Hawley Square Library [Book plate 1840]

Bill 1810 London Millinery Rooms No 5 Cecil Square	Charlotte Square 20 Mrs Lilian Pilcher dinning rooms 1935	Circus poster 1855 near Mulberry Tree	Clifton Baths Price Card
19 June 2022
Margate Postcards

The Hydro Hotel, Eastern Esplanade	Eastern Esplanade and Oval Bandstand 1957	Edgar Road Greylands Hotel	Fort Hill 1959

Top end of Fort Hill, viewed from Winter Gardens	Gore and Gore, Stationers, 18 Cliff Terrace	Surrey Road No 20 The Greswolde interior	Surrey Road No 22 Richmond
5 June 2022
Coronation Events

Cecil Square Proclamation of King George V 1910	Cecil Square Proclamation of King George V 1910	Cecil Square Coronation King George V 1911	Cecil Square Coronation King George V 1911

Isle of Thanet Tramway decorated for Coronation 1911	Eagle Steamers and Queen Line Sailings from Margate and Ramsgate. Coronation May 1937	Drapers Farmhouse decorated for the Coronation of George VI 1937	Queen Street Bobbys decorated for Coronation 1953

Cecil Square bus stand decorated for Coronation 1953	Cecil Square bus stand decorated for Coronation 1953	Dane Hill Row Coronation street party Certificate	Milton Avenue Coronation street party 1953

Silver Jubilee naming of Margate Lifeboat 1979	Silver Jubilee naming of Margate Lifeboat 1979	Silver Jubilee naming of Margate Lifeboat 1979	Silver Jubilee naming of Margate Lifeboat 1979
22 May 2022
Dreamland Advertising Booklet ca 1931

Dreamland advertising booklet ca 1931	Page 1	Dreamland Flower Gardens	The New Dreamland

The New Arcade	The New Amusement Park	Reconstructions	Reconstructions

Catering Facilities	The Garden Cafe	The New Dreamland Amusement Park
8 May 2022
Dreamland Catering 1934

Margate Estates Co pamphlet [1934]	Specimen Menus	Dreamland New kitchen one of three	Dreamland dining hall laid for 1000

Dreamland dining hall seats 550	Dreamland dining hall seats 500	Dreamland dining hall laid for 500	Dreamland dining hall laid for 250

Dreamland dining hall seats 250	Dreamland dining hall seats 500	The New Dreamland
24 April 2022
Margate Stereocards

Pier from Fort [Blanchard ca 1860]	Bathing Machines at Ramsgate [Blanchard]	No Mans Land [James Stodart]	Margate Harbour [opaline stereocard]

Clocktower, pre-tram [Henry Borton]	Clocktower with tram [Wheeler & Son Kentish Views]	Jetty [Wheeler & Son Kentish Views]	Marine Drive [Wheeler& Son Kentish Views]
10 April 2022
Margate Stereocards

Marine Terrace and Iron Bridge [H Goodman]	Upper Marine Terrace and bridge	Marine Terrace [Valentine Blanchard Stereos of Margate]	Dusk; sailing ships in harbour

St Johns Church interior before erection of screen	St Johns Church	Trinity Church [London Photographic]	Trinity Church [photographer, Cheney of Beckenham ]
27 March 2022
Valentine & Co. Collotypes (Part 2)

Clock Tower (and tram) ]25650 JV]	Lifeboat Memorial [35951 JV]	Margate from Buenos Ayres (with tram) [36548 JV]	Margate Sands (front of railway station) [256757 JV]

Marine Terrace Clocktower (and tram) [25649 JV]	Newgate Gapway [25664 JV]	The Fort [25666 JV]	The Sands [25658 JV]

Westbrook beach (Sea Bathing Hospital) [36549 JV]
13 March 2022
Valentine & Co. Collotypes (Part 1)

Cliftonville from High Cliff [25652 JV]	Lifeboat Memorial [35952 JV]	Margate Sands [25660 JV]	Newgate Gap [25663 JV]

SeaView Westbrook [38147 JV]	The Jetty [25655 JV]	The Oval [36546 JV]	The Park [37737 JV Giant Postcard]

The Park, back of the Giant Postcard [6.5 x 9 inches]
COLLOTYPES. As well as the photochromes already described (13 February 2022), black and white prints were also available from the 1890s, of the same size as the photochromes (6.5 x 9 inches) and also printed on thin paper with blank backs. As with the photochromes, they would be bought mostly by holiday makers, to be kept in albums. They were gradually replaced by the smaller postcards which, after 1902 in Britain, were printed with divided backs allowing them to be sent though the post, with the address and a message written on the back. Black and white prints were produced either by photolithography or by the collotype process. The lithographic process was basically the same as that used to produce photochromes, but with a single colour, printed from a limestone printing block. It involved breaking the original photographic image into a series of dots (halftone printing) and this can sometime be used to identify a photolithograph, although a lack of regular spacing of the dots can make it difficult. The collotype process is very similar, except that in this process a lithographic stone or a metal or glass plate was coated with a light-sensitive gelatine solution rather than with bitumen, and, when hardened by exposure to light, gave a network of fine cracks. A collotype viewed through a magnifying glass appears as a mosaic of similarly sized pieces of irregular shapes, ‘like a bowl of macaroni noodles’ [Reference]). The final result is a print with tonal gradations similar to those of the original photograph. Large black and white view cards with undivided backs seem all to be collotypes. Valentine’s Co. Ltd. of Dundee (J.V.) were major producers of these cards in the period from the 1890’s until about 1902 [Reference]. The view of Margate Jetty shows the walkway on the right with a barrier between the Jetty and the walkway and with much of the decking of the walkway missing, dating the view to after the storm of November 1897. The view of Dane Park was issued both as a paper print and as a ‘Giant Post Card’.
27 February 2022
Photos of Old Margate

Shoe Shine The Parade in front of Hoy hotel c1895	2 Andrews Place, demolished in the mid to late 1930s [thanks to David Pointer]	Belle Steamers (inc John Herbert Pointer with moustache) [thanks to David Pointer]	Belle Steamers poster [thanks to David Pointer]

Fort Green Cliffs and Shelter	Fort Green Bandstand and Path	Norfolk Road Courtlands Hotel 1909	Norfolk Road Courtlands Hotel 1909
13 February 2022
Photochromes of Margate (1893-4)

Beach and ladies' bathing place]	Kingsgate Castle	The Fort	The Gap

The harbour	The harbour	The jetty	The jetty

The promenade	The Beach
PHOTOCHROMES: In the 1880’s a Swiss chemist, Hans Jakob Schmid, invented a process by which coloured prints could be made from black and white photographic negatives. The process involved preparing a set of limestone printing blocks, one for each of the six or more colours to be used in producing the final print. Each stone would be used to print one specific colour, and combining all these colours gave the final print. The process started with the making of a reversed halftone negative from the original negative (in a halftone the original image is replaced by a series of discrete dots) which was then hand colored according to sketches and notes taken at the scene. The next step was to prepare a printing block by coating a smooth limestone block with a thin layer of bitumen on top of which was placed the half tone negative. Daylight was passed through a coloured filter and the half tone negative, onto the printing block. Regions of bitumen exposed to the light hardened and became resistant to the turpentine solutions used to wash away the unhardened bitumen. The appropriate coloured inks were then used with each of the plates to print the final coloured image. A photochrome can always be recognized by looking at the image through a magnifying glass, when the small coloured dots making up the image can be seen (although these are much less obvious than the regular pattern of dots seen in half-tone pictures in newspapers etc.) The photochrome process was first employed commercially by a Swiss firm, Photochrom Zurich, and was licensed out in the mid-1890s to the Detroit Photographic Company in the United States and the Photochrome Company in London. The Catalogue of the Detroit Publishing Company lists nine photochromes of Margate [Reference], but there are at least ten. They were printed on thin paper with blank backs, and all were about 6.5 x 9 inches. It was expected that they would be purchased by visitors to holiday towns, to be preserved in albums or put on display at home. Photochromes were produced from about 1890 to the early 1900s when the market was taken over by coloured postcards. The Margate photochromes can be dated more precisely to 1893-1894 because of the colours of the funnel of the Royal Sovereign in the picture of the Jetty (The Jetty II). The Royal Sovereign was built in 1893 and operated by the Victoria Steamboat Association (VSA). The VSA painted the funnels of its paddleboats red with a black top, separated by two white bands, as in the picture. However, after the 1894 season the VSA collapsed and was replaced by the New Palace Seamers Co. who repainted the funnels a plain buff colour [Reference]. Also of help in dating these prints is the walkway on the right of the Jetty leading to Cold Harbour. The walkway was damaged during the storm of November 1897 and, when rebuilt, had a barrier between the Jetty and the walkway with much of the decking of the walkway missing.
30 January 2022
Margate Public Houses and Inns

Poster Hoy Hotel [Julia Stevens]	Dog and Duck Canterbury Road sketch	Dog and Duck Canterbury Road Restaurant	Dog and Duck Canterbury Road Tarif

Fort Hill The Britannia advertising card	Fort Hill The Brittania 1962	Garlinge Canterbury Road The Hussar	Station Road Flag and Whistle 1962
16 January 2022
Postcards of Margate

Canterbury Road No 26	Cecil Square Hippodrome, The Mikado, Gilbert and Sullivan 1908	Dreamland gardens, Shade and Sunshine	Fort Crescent Fort Lodge Hotel

Fort Crescent Fort Lodge 1926	Fort Road Arcadian Hotel 1905	Marine Terrace and sands	The Rendezvous Walk and Winter Gardens
9 January 2022
Albumin Photographs of Margate

Harbour entrance and Metropole Hotel	Jetty entrance and camera obscura	Jetty with two lifeboat ramps	Marine Terrace pre trams ca 1890s

Marine Terrace sands with bathing carts	Marine Terrace sands with bathing carts	Marine Terrace sands with minstrels	Harbour at low tide
12 December 2021
The Album of Margate Views [Part 2]

The Parade	Royal Crescent	St Johns Church	The Pier

Trinity Church	Upper Granville Terrace and Shaftsbury House	Westgate panorama	Kingsgate Captain Digby
28 November 2021
The Album of Margate Views [Part 1]

Seamen's Observatory and Marine Palace	View from Pier with Marine Palace in background	Cliftonville Hotel	Fort Crescent

Jetty Pavilion	Marine Drive and Albert Terrace	Marine Drive	Parade and Droit House
Books of steel line-engraved vignettes had disappeared by about 1880, at which time real photographs were still relatively expensive and the picture postcard had not yet arrived. This left a gap in the market which was filled by the rather unsatisfactory sepia-tinted ‘photo-lithographs’, printed on coated paper and largely produced in Lower Saxony, Germany. These photo-lithographs usually have an essentially photographic base to which has been added hand-working, giving a picture with the appearance of both a photograph and a drawing. They were issued in the form of a long concertina-folded sheet of prints, bound between two boards, known as Leporello albums, named after Don Giovanni's servant in Mozart's opera, who kept a lengthy concertina list of his master's conquests. The inclusion of pictures of The Marine Palace shows that this particular album was printed after about 1884 when the Palace opened and before December 1897, when the Palace was destroyed in a storm. More Leporello albums can be seen here
14 November 2021
Margate Postcards

Beatrice Road	Marine Terrace and Bathing Pavilion Aerial View	Palm Bay with bathing tents	Palm Bay bathing station

Palm Bay Gardens and Bowling Green 1954	Royal Sea Bathing Infirmary aerial view	Royal Sea Bathing Infirmary aerial view	Wilderness Hill Princess Mary's Convalescent Home
31 October 2021
Albumin Prints of Margate

Fort Cliffs ca 1870s before Marine Palace	Fort Cliffs ca 1870s before Marine Palace	Marine Palace from sea ca 1890s	St Johns Church ca 1870s

Marine Terrace sands ca 1870s	Marine Terrace ca 1890s after clocktower but before trams	Kingsgate and castle ca 1870s	Kingsgate and castle ca 1870s
17 October 2021
Photographs of Margate [late 1930s]

Botany Bay [Sweetman]	Lewis Avenue Bowling Green [Sweetman]	Northumberland Avenue Northumberland Hotel [Sweetman]	Palm Bay and Hodges Bridge [Sweetman]

Palm Bay Gapway Hodges Bridge [Sweetman]	Palm Bay with Bathing Huts [Sweetman]	Winter Gardens [Sweetman]	Winter Gardens [Sweetman]
This set of photographs are stamped "E.A. Sweetman & Son Ltd, Sunshine Works, Tunbridge Wells" and Sweetman and Son published the Sunshine Series of Postcards. These photographs probably date from the late 1930s as the Northumberland Hotel was built in 1935, but it is unclear whether or not they were ever published as postcards.
3 October 2021
Postcards of Margate

Eastern Esplanade Cliftonville Hydro [1905 LL]	Eastern Esplanade opposite Oval [1950s or 60s]	Eastern Esplanade Oval [publisher Bowen]	Eastern Esplanade St George's Hotel at night

Eastern Esplanade The Oval [Marin Series 1912]	Harbour [Polden and Hogben Aug 1911]	Jetty Entrance Storm 1913	Jetty with Camera Obscura and weighing machine [Aug 1908]
19 September 2021
Postcards of Margate

King Street George Hotel with charabanc outside	Tivoli Gardens 1929	Tivoli Road Alexandra Homes	Royal Crescent Nayland Rock

Royal Esplanade Sunken gardens Westbrook	Royal Esplanade Sunken Gardens 1965	Westbrook Road Stoke Lea Guest House 1975	Westcliffe Gardens Westbrook
5 September 2021
Photographs of Margate courtesy of Chris Sandwell and the Shields family

Mechanical Elephant, promenade by Winter Gardens 1950s	Mechanical Elephant, promenade by Winter Gardens 1950s	Mechanical Elephant, promenade by Winter Gardens 1950s	Mechanical Elephant, promenade by Winter Gardens 1950s

Walmer Castle Pub and Mill Lane Circa 1910	Harry Barnes Shields AFS WW2 Harold Road	Harry Barnes Shields AFS WW2 King Street	Margate AFS WW2 Alexandra Road
22 August 2021
Postcards of Margate

Dalby Square Severn House Hotel	Dalby Square Windsor Hotel [Advertising card]	Fort Green Bandstand Aug 1911	Fort Promenade Athol Lodge 1962

Lewis Avenue and Bowling Greens [Fifth Avenue on right]	Royal Crescent Hollywood [probably now Holywood Court Nos 10-11]	Winter Gardens and Pavilion 1938	Winter Gardens and Fort Crescent
8 August 2021
Postcards of Margate

Alexandra Road [Northdown Road] No 48 William George Holton hairdresser	Alexandra Road [Northdown Road] St Pauls 1929	Cliff Terrace and Lido 1913	Lido Lawn Cafe May 1968

Lido View of pool and cafe	Northdown Road	Northdown Road with Tram 1911	Northdown Road Ye Old Charles Inn with coach and horses
25 July 2021
Old Margate

Trinity Church Interior [sterero]	Shottenden [stereo]	Fort Crescent with Goat cart [Twyman stereo]	Sands and Jetty [stereo]

Entrance to the Harbour, watercolour by George Keate ca 1780, showing jetty along the Parade and the bridge over the future King Street	Officer Cinque Port Volunteers ca 1794-1800 [Watercolour by Charles Stadden] Francis Cobb sen. and Francis Cobb jun. were the Officers of the First and Second Company of Margate Volunteers during the Napoleonic Wars	Marine Library and Bathing Room High Street [Engraving ca 1830s]	Royal York Hotel Marine Parade Receipt 1864
11 July 2021
Margate Postcards

Cliff Terrace and Lido	Dane Park and Lake 1962	Eastern Esplanade Cliftonville Hydro 1914	Eastern Esplanade Cliftonville Hydro 1907

Harold Road Connaught Lodge	Lewis Crescent Granville Court Hotel	Royal Crescent 1908 [LL]	Trinity Square Vortigern Smuggler's Caves
27 June 2021
Margate Postcards

Eastern Esplanade and Oval	Edgar Road Glenwood line	Ethelbert Crescent View from Durley Deane 1918	Ethelbert Crescent view to Newgate Promenade

Lido Lawn Cafe	Queens Promenade and Bungalow 1911	Walpole Bay Bathing station	Walpole Bay 1910s
13 June 2021
Margate Postcards

Albert Terrace and upper Marine Terrace 1921	Droit House and Harbour	Flint Row	Marine Terrace Sands

Queens Promenade and Lewis Crescent	St Johns Church St Georges Chapel	Launching The Lifeboat at Margate	Dreamland Miniature Railway and Station [Photograph]
30 May 2021
Margate Postcards

College Road St Augustines	Fort Crescent Winter Gardens 1962	Marine Drive and Beach 1963	Newgate Gap Pettmans Bathing Station

Palm Bay Looking East 1928	Royal Crescent Nayland Rock Hotel 1945	Second Avenue [Bells PC]	Sweyn Road Riverdale [interior views]
16 May 2021
CDVs of Margate Storm of 1877

Pier and Jetty 1859-1861 [CDV, Sedgfield; dates thanks to Chris Sandwell]	Damaged Jetty Storm 1877 [Byrne]	Damaged Jetty Storm 1877 [Byrne]	Damaged Jetty Storm 1877 [Byrne]

Damaged Jetty Storm 1877 [Byrne]	Back of High Street Storm 1877 [Byrne]	Ships ashore off Margate Storm 1877 [Byrne]	Ships ashore off Margate Storm 1877 [Byrne]
Further information about the storm of 24 November 1877 and the photographer, Joseph Byrne of 43 High Street, Margate, is available at Margate Storms
2 May 2021
Pictures and Postcards

Northdown Road 1984	Northdown Road, Smallbone Interiors	High Street Margate Shops	High Street Margate Shops

Harbour [LL Panorama]	H Hobday Grocer van, 89 High Street	Bowkett baker, 132 High Street	Wanstall Butcher, 82 High Street
18 April 2021
Margate Demolished

Queen Street, Guys No 9	Queen Street, Advance Laundry No 10	Queen Street, Heyes No 11	Queen Street, Adams No 12

Mill Lane Development Area 17 November 1969	Mill Lane Development Area 16 December 1969	Mill Lane Development Area 1 January 1970	Mill Lane Development Area 1 January 1970
4 April 2021
Some Margate Photographs

Grosvenor Place upper end	Margate Station Signal Box	Margate Station Water Tower 1970s	Dreamland Coach Park and Scenic Railway

Model Village in front of Butlins Queens Hotel 1960s	Model Village in front of Butlins Queens Hotel 1960s	Newgate Gap Pettmans Bathing Stage August 1919	Newgate Gap Pettmans Bathing Stage taken from bathing machine August 1919
21 March 2021
Plans for Margate

Proposed Harbour of refuge {Edmunds 1839]	Proposed Jetty extension [Thanet Guardian 1871]	Proposed Kursaal Building [Pyramidical syndicate; 1897]	Proposed Kursaal building [East Kent Times March 1905]

Margate Golf Links Company share certificate 1899	Sale of Kursaal Site 1911	Poster Fort Road Improvements 1934	Plan of Fort Road Improvements
7 March 2021
Some Stereographs of Margate

Grotto [Twyman & Son Ramsgate, Views of the Isle of Thanet]	Kingsgate Castle	Kingsgate Castle [T Wheeler]	Kingsgate Folly near The Captain Digby [London Photographic]

The Captain Digby [A Moore, Fort Parade]	Kingsgate view at Captain Digby	Shipping in the harbour	Harbour at low tide [June 1877]
21 February 2021
Some Tunbridge Ware pictures of Margate

Assembly Room Cecil Square	Bettisons Library Hawley Square	Bettisons Library Hawley Square interior	Landing Place

Margate Pier	Pier at Margate	Ranelagh Gardens St Peters	Ranelagh Gardens St Peters
These small prints, typically ca. 3 ins. by 2 ins., were produced by G. Wise and others in Tunbridge Wells, around 1806. Many were incorporated into wood turned souvenirs, boxes, Tea Caddies and other objects, or sold separately as small pictures for visitors. They are known to have been sold in the Libraries at Margate: Samuel Bettison, Hawley Square; William Bettison, High Street; Thomas Bousfield & Thomas Pallister, Cecil Square; Joseph Hall, Hawley Square; Samuel Silver; Cecil Square; George Witherden, Marine Parade. (Tunbridge Ware by Brian Austen, foulsham, 3rd ed., 2001)
7 February 2021
Some Margate Photographs

The Parade and Paradise Street before the trams	View of the Fort after destruction of Marine Palace	Marine Terrace c1890	Eaton Road junction with Marine Gardens

Trinity Church ruins July 1957 [View from bedroom window]	Trinity Church ruins July 1957 [View from bedroom window]	Astoria Northdown Road	Astoria April 1934
24 January 2021
Some Margate Postcards

Eastern Esplanade Wishing Towers 1987	Edgar Road Rhonallea Hotel 1965	Harbour Chilrens Boating Pool	Hatfield Road Clyffe House

New Street New Inn and troops 1915	Norfolk Road Wentworth Hotel	St Andrew's House Price's Avenue No 12 1907	Trinity Square Northdown Road junction
10 January 2021
Some Margate Postcards

Approach Road No 17 Reculver 1909	Queens Gardens Butlins Queens Highcliffe Hotel	Queens Gardens Butlins Queen Highcliffe Hotel Dolphinarium	Queens Gardens Butlins Queens Highcliffe Hotel Dolphinarium

Eastern Esplanade Oval 1908	Eastern Esplanade Kingscliffe St Georges and Norfolk Hotels 1953	Eastern Esplanade Butlins Grand Hotel Ballroom	Ethelbert Crescent Thanet Hunt Meeeting January 1913