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Margate in Maps and Pictures

compiled by Anthony Lee

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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