Margate in Maps and Pictures

compiled by Anthony Lee

Newly Added Pictures

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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