Ramsgate
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Ramsgate is a seaside port town and civil parish in the district of Thanet in eastern Kent, England. It was one of the great English seaside towns of the 19th century. In 2021 it had a population of 4
Ramsgate's harbour, from the air.
Ramsgate Sands in 1854, by William Powell Frith
Photochrom of a crowded beach, 1899
The Lighthouse Ramsgate by A.R. Quinton (postcard marked 1921)
Margate
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Margate is a seaside town in the Thanet District of Kent, England. It is located on the north coast of Kent and covers an area of 2 miles long, 16 miles north-east of Canterbury and includes Cliftonvi
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…beautiful." In 1901, an electric tram service, one of the few inter-urban tramways in Britain, was introduced on the Isle of Thanet. The towns of Ramsgate, Margate and Broadstairs were linked by 11 miles of track. In the First World War, in 1915–1916, early aircraft began to use the open farmland at Manston as a…
Margate Clock Tower
A photochrom print of Margate Harbour in 1897
Margate railway station, which was constructed in 1926 to designs by Edwin Maxwell Fry
Margate Clock Tower and buildings on the sea front