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Margate in Maps and Pictures

compiled by Anthony Lee

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27 December 2020
Some Margate Postcards

Dalby Square Queens School 1928	Fort Road and Harbour 1955	Hawley Street Margate College Building	Hawley Street No 18 McHales Restaurant

Jetty and Hotel Metropole [LL] 1906	King Street No 15, Toby, printer	Northdown Road Ye Olde Charles Inn	Parade [Paragon Series] 1950s
13 December 2020
Some Margate Photographs

Aerial view Trinity Hill and Brewery ca 1930	Byron Road Oak Villa No 124	Cold Harbour	Dane Park with Park Lane behind

Dreamland Ballroom	Dreamland Park Skywheels ride	Regal Cinema Cecil Square entrance lobby	St Johns Road British Legion
29 November 2020
Some Margate Stereocards

Clifton Baths	Harbour and Parade	Marine Parade from the lower Pier [Blanchard]	Marine Terrace from High Street

Royal Assembly Rooms and Royal Hotel, Cecil Square	St Johns Church and graveyard before rebuilding	Union Crescent and New Church	Upper Marine Terrace and bridge
15 November 2020
Some Margate Postcards

King Street George Hotel 1930	Lewis Avenue St Georges Hotel and Bowling Greens 1948	Marine Drive	Marine Drive with tram and horses

Marine Palace Rough Sea 1907	Marine Palace storm ca 1910	Marine Palace Storm 1904	Marine Palace storm
1 November 2020
Some Cliftonville Postcards

Edgar Road No 32 Marion Boarding House	Edgar Road Holland House Hotel	Edgar Road Holland House Hotel	Edgar Road Holland House line 1914

Edgar Road Surrey House	Palm Bay Avenue Godwin College 1933	Palm Bay Avenue new building	Palm Bay building bathing station 1916
18 October 2020
Assorted Margate Pictures

Wesleyan Chapel Hawley Square	Hawley Square Wesleyan Chapel Doorway	Hawley Square No 4	Hawley Square No 5

Hawley Square Doorways Nos 5 and 6	High Street 1984	Henrys No 54 High Street 1982	Henrys No 54 High Street 1982
4 October 2020
Assorted Margate Pictures

Biddenden Close St Anthony's Way and St Anthony's School ca 1964	View from College Road, back of Glencoe Road 1946	Princess Marys Hospital Wilderness Hill convertion of buildings on right into care home 27th July 1984	Princess Marys Hospital Wilderness Hill convertion to care home 27th July 1984

The Centre Queen Street under construction ca 1969	Westbrook Day Hospital Canterbury Road 26th September 2003	Westbrook Day Hospital Canterbury Road 26th September 2003	Westbrook Day Hospital Canterbury Road 26th September 2003
September 20 2020
Assorted Margate Pictures

Storm 1897 Metali's Restaurant [Bankside}]	Marine Drive Lyons	Marine Terrace Beale's Bathing Machine 1961	Dane Park Road Wood & Co Builders

Between Arthur and Dalby Rds looking toward St Stephen's Church 1962	Cecil Square 1984	Market Street Bulls Head	Market Street Coach House Bulls Head
September 6 2020
Assorted Margate Postcards

Addington Street Gas Works [behind Margate College]	College Road Empire Terrace	Dane Hill Dane Hill Boarding House interior	Fort Road and Arcadian Hotel

Grosvenor Place No 8 Winchmore GH	Harold Road Connaught Lodge	Harold Road Harold Hall Hotel 1964	Madeira Road Northdene Nursing Home
August 23 2020
Assorted Margate Photographs

Mark Michaels 9 Hawley Street	Isle of Thanet Building Society 3 and 4 Cecil Street	Queen Street c1965	Gwendoline House Tivoli Road c1935

Tivoli Bridge College Road	Tivoli Road	Tivoli Road	Tivoli Woods Flood 1973
August 9 2020
Dane Park

Dane Park Flower Beds 1980	Dane Park Flower Beds	Dane Park Bridge and Lake colour	Dane Park Fountain

Dane Park The New Walk 1932	Dane Park Lake 1920	Dane Park Fountain and Flower Beds 1920	Dane Park Bridge 1909
July 26 2020
Lantern Slides of Old Margate

Pier entrance and Parade	Cold Harbour at high tide	Margate Harbour with Lighthouse	Harbour and boats

Margate Lifeboat on Slipway	Margate Lifeboat on Slipway	Jubilee Clock Tower	Jubilee Clock Tower
July 12 2020
Stereos of Old Margate

Iron Bridge from Sands	Marine Terrace [stations in distance]	Royal Crescent Road	Pier and Harbour and Droit House [James Stodart]

Pier and Lighthouse [Twyman]	Pier and Ship Hotel	Jetty with Boat [Blanchard]	Jetty and Beach with group [Margate Stereo Co]
June 28 2020
Old Margate

Cobbs Brewery SE Elevation Nov 1969	Marine Drive Imperial Hotel May 1966	Parade Royal Albion Hotel Aug 1978	Market Place looking toward Market Street

High Street 166-168 Old Masonic Hall	Harbour 12 Jan 1973	Northdown Road 113 Scott & Sons8	Northdown Road Upper Marble Hall Harrington
June 14 2020
Chapel Hill House

Chapel Hill House	Drive Chapel Hill House	Back. Chapel Hill House 1886	Stables Chapel Hill

Drawing Room Chapel Hill House	Drawing Room Chapel Hill House	Peach House & Vinery	Orchard Chapel Hill House
May 31 2020
Some Margate Stereocards

Fort Britannia [James Stodart]	Fort Green [Henry Goodman]	Fort cliffs and Fort Crescent from Beach [James Stodart]	Jetty at night [James Stodart]

Royal Crescent	Royal Crescent	St Ethelberts Road	Upper Marine Terrace and Kent Hotel
May 17 2020
St Peter's Road

Front of Drapers Almshouses on right, Drapers Farmhouse in centre ca 1910	Drapers Farmhouse Decorated for the Coronation of George VI 1937	Drapers Farmhouse Decorated for the Coronation of George VI 1937	Drapers Farmhouse Decorated for the Coronation of George VI 1937

Drapers Farmyard 1937	St Peters Road Drapers Almshouses	Margate Hospital under construction	St Peters Road Margate Hospital
May 3 2020
Old Margate

Margate Hospital and Houses on St Peters Road and Lister Road	St Peters Road, No 53 and Lister Road, Quetta, ca 1910	St Peters Road: Wayside ca 1910	St Peters Footpath: Claremont ca 1910
[Michael Cates is thanked for help in identifying the above pictures]

Wood & Co Builders Dane Park Road ca 1939	Kent Hotel before demolition of balcony	Kent Hotel before demolition of balcony	Town Mortuary, Victoria Road
April 19 2020
Margate Harbour

Harbour and first Lifeboat House c1900	Everards Sincerity in Harbour 9th March 1958	Everards Sincerity in Harbour 9th March 1958	Everards Sincerity in Harbour 9th March 1958

Everards Centricity entering Harbour in thick fog 30th Nov 1955	Everards Centricity in Harbour 30th Nov 1955	Everards Festivity ashore outside of Harbour March 1952	Everards Summity ashore outside of Harbour 27 April 1957 Offloading 100 tons of coal
April 5 2020
Old Margate Photographs

Royal Hotel Cecil Square 1860s	Lifeboat on pier 1866	Harbour and sands with donkeys	Jetty extension with paddle steamer

Horse coach North Foreland lighhouse	Marine Terrace Shelter	Hodges Bridge Flagstaff Promenade ca 1910	Ethelbert Crescent Cliftonville Hotel
March 22 2020
Margate Pubs and Shops

Mulberry Tree King Street [coach party]	Charlotte Square George and Dragon	Arthur Saxby 117 Canterbury Road Westbrook [corn merchant]	Isle of Thanet Gazette Office 25 Cecil Square

Moylers 219-221 Northdown Road, Norfolk Road jnc 1965	Moylers Home Stores 208-210 Northdown Road 1960s	Moylers Home Stores 208-210 Northdown Road 1960s	Zion Place No 1 Blue Rambler Coaches Booking Office 1993
March 8 2020
Some Watercolours and Prints of Margate

Spellers Court,off Love Lane [Watercolour, George Shepherd June 30 1817]	Reculvers [Watercolour, James Malton 1798]	Margate Pier, Sarah Bearblock [Jas Basire lithographer]	Halls Library (copy)

Fort and Harbour (copy)	Beales Machines (copy)]	Thanet College Margate	North Foreland Lighthouse [pub Bettison])
February 23 2020
Some Margate Postcards

Addington Street Ladies College	Albert Terrace Marine Gardens 1935	Canterbury Road Sea Bathing Infirmary Portico	Canterbury Road Victoria Home

Dane Park lake 1953	Dane Park bridge and lake 1962	Lower Northdown Road Laleham School 1906	High Street First and Last PH
February 9 2020
Some Margate Pictures

Fort Lodge Hotel & Fort Crescent 1960	Hodges Flagstaff and canon 1929	Site of Church Square & Short Street Demolished 1953 [High Street on right]	Magdala Villas Northumberland Road 1865

Market Place c1950	Market Place c1950	Cecil Streeet 1968	Cecil Square 1967
January 26 2020
Some Margate Postcards

Broad Street The Crown Police Naval Reserve 1914	Cranbourne Place [Alley] Central Boarding House 1913	Grosvenor Place 94 Poppleton Guest House 1922	Marine Terrace Sands God save our King and Nation

Marine Terrace Kent Hotel 1908	Marine Terrace Kent Hotel Interior	New Northdown Park	Trinity Square Rose in June
January 12 2020
Some Margate photographs

The Parade 1898	The Parade	The Parade with Motor Coaches	Pier and Hotel Metropole

Marine Drive c1905	Kent Hotel before demolition of balcony	Harbour Miniature Railway	Harbour Miniature Railway
December 29 2019
Some Margate photographs

Drapers Mill before restoration	Drapers Mill Restored	Hodges Bridge and Bungalow [early]	Margate harbour, beach and bathing huts

Margate Jetty extension	Margate Jetty extension,staff c1920	On Margate Jetty c1920	Dane Valley Shops 1984
December 15 2019
Some Margate photographs

Fort Crescent 1919	High Street lower end, Lyons	High Street top end, Six Bells	Winter Gardens Construction

Demolition of Deaf School	Tivoli Road c1975	Grosvenor Road (Place) 1907	Gurney late Claggett, Poulterer, Hawley Street c1890
November 17 2019
Some Margate photographs

King Street Cobbs House	King Street Bank building	Mill Lane from Walmer Castle end	View down Trinity Hill 1949

Nos 5-13 High Street Bombed 1st June 1943	Nos 5-13 High Street Bombed 1st June 1943	Nos 5-13 High Street Bombed 1st June 1943	John Brown 13 & 15 High Street Rebuilt
November 3 2019
Some Margate photographs

Cecil Square Automobile Club Reliability Trials	Cecil Square Yates Wine Lodge	Flagstaff Promenade Pettmans Bathing 1910	Garden Row from Garden Alley end

Albert Terrace from Marine Terrace 1879	Alexandra Homes Tivoli Road 1913	Bankside & Hotel Metropole after storm 1897	Bankside & Hotel Metropole after storm 1897 corner
October 13 2019
Some Margate photographs and postcards

Aerial view Margate College c1930	Armistice Day 1923 Town Hall	In the Town Hall 1919	Lockwoods Builders working on the Hoy Hotel Fort Hill 1930s

Ethelbert Road Falcon Holiday Hotel bar	Lido The Golden Garter Saloon entrance	Reeves Tudor Tea Rooms Marine Terrace?	Royal Esplanade Westbrook bowling green 1953
September 29 2019
Some Margate postcards

Canterbury Road No 150 Victoria Home for Invaild Children	Dreamland Coach Park 2 coaches 1934	Eastern Esplanade Athelstan Boarding Establishment 1909	Eastern Esplanade Norfolk Hotel Butlins

Jetty Extension 1907 [LL]	Lewis Avenue Hotel Florence [Multiple views 1914]	Queens Promenade Model Village	Rancorn Road Westbrook No 8 Haslemere
September 15 2019
Some Margate postcards

Crawford Gardens Crawford House Cliftonville 1907	Ethelbert Crescent Cliftonville Hotel 1906	Ethelbert Gardens No 1 1908	Ethelbert Road at night 1980

Ethelbert Road Falcon Holiday Hotel bar	Hodges Bridge Bungalow LL 1908	Hodges Bridge Bungalow Tea Rooms interior	Ramsgate Road
September 1 2019
Some Margate postcards

Cecil Square Hippodrome and Post Office 1919	Lido entrance	Drapers Mill and house ca 1900	Drapers Mills, two mills and chimney 1908

Eastern Esplanade Albemarle Hotel 1915	Eastern Esplanade Brondesbury House School House 1907	Eastern Esplanade Glyneath Private Hotel 1921	Manston Road Cemetery Gates ca 1910
August 18 2019
Albumin Prints of Margate

Fort Green Fort Bandstand	Fort (Queens) Promenade with goat carts	Ethelbert Crescent Cliftonville Hotel	Ethelbert Crescent

Queens Parade Cliftonville	Harbour Parade Stevens Hoy Hotel	Droit House Cold Harbour Hotel Metropole	Westbrook bandstand
August 4 2019
Old Margate

VJ Day party Grotto Road August 1945	Yeoman House corner of Grotto Road and Grotto Hill 1910	Brockley Road VE childrens party 9th May 1945	Empire Day school sports Dane Park May 1912

Margate Fire Brigade parade after Munich Crisis 1938	Cecil Square Possibly Queen Victoria Golden Jubilee 1887	The disused walkway from Jetty Circa 1910	Holly Lane looking towards Foreland Avenue 1920s
July 21 2019
Georgian and Victorian Margate

Hoopers Hill Bilstone enamel patch box	Hoopers Horizontal Mill [copy, unknown origin]	Gougers and Horizontal Mill [copy, unknown origin]	Horizontal Mill at Battersea [Hooper Design], Old and New London, 1878

Parade [Burgess Library Ramsgate]	Dane Hill House Academy [Perry]	The Paragon and Fort Crescent [Newman]	Harbour and Parade [J Newman]
June 23 2019
Old Margate

Trafalgar Place (Pleasant Place on right) 1960	No 21 Clifton Street 1984	Grosvenor Road (Place) 1907	Grange Road VE party May 1945

Dalby Square Queen's School 1924	Dalby Square Edinburgh House	Dalby Square Buckingham House 1913	Dalby Square Windsor Hotel 1913
June 9 2019
Around Canterbury Road

Buenos Ayres 1920	Buenos Ayres 1966	Canterbury Road Sea Bathing Hospital Chapel from road	Royal Sea Bathing Hospital

Westbrook Day Hospital, Canterbury Road Day of closure 26th September 2003	Westbrook Day Hospital, Canterbury Road 26th September 2003	Westbrook Day Hospital, Canterbury Road 26th September 2003	Westbrook Day Hospital, Canterbury Road 26th September 2003
May 26 2019
Cliftonville

Arthur Road Cliftonville College 1908	Athelstan Road Beach View	Athelstan Road Stanmore 1914	Clarendon Road Stanley House School

Butlins Grand Hotel Eastern Esplanade 1960	Butlins Queens Hotel Newgate Gap 1960s	Butlins St Georges Hotel Eastern Esplanade 1960s	The Lido and Crazy Golf c1970
May 12 2019
Old Margate

Hippodrome Cecil Square 1967	Hippodrome from Cecil Street 1967	All Saints Church War Memorial c1920	Holy Trinity Church 1907

Holy Trinity Church pre WW2	Holy Trinity Church Spire pre WW2	Holy Trinity Church Looking West late 1940s	Holy Trinity Church Looking West Late 1940s
April 28 2019
Watercolours and Drawings of Margate

Austens Library ca 1785	Mr Garner Bookseller etc June 1790	Hawley Square [watercolour Thomas Wakeman ca 1800]	Gentleman in Margate Library 1785

Gapway 3 miles from Margate ca 1785	Kingsgate Castle ca 1785	Margate Harbour [W.W.Johnson 1827]	Old Cottages Margate [exact location unknown]
April 14 2019
A Margate Miscellany

Approach Road No 8 Dane Mount	Approach Road No 12 Hazelgrove 1910	Athelstan Road Stanmore Line	Athelstan Road 1966

Looking East from top of Holy Trinity Church ca 1945-46	Looking North East from top of Holy Trinity Church ca 1945-46	Trinity Square Armistice Day 11th November 1930	The Parade & High Street Evans Chemists 1931
March 31 2019
Bygone Margate

Marine Gardens, Adams and Butts Shops	Rear of house on corner of Trafalgar Place from Pleasant Place 1960	Wall round Bridgewater, Addington Square April 1939	Wall round Bridgewater, Addington Square from SE corner

Zion Place No 16 Jones & Son	Caroline Cottages 1 2 3 off Clifton Place	Rear of Nos 9 10 11 Castell's Gardens King Street looking East c1950	Southbank Florist (formerly Chittenden's) Ramsgate Road 4th April 1987
Margate Carte de visite [CDV]

Britannia Inn [Stodart]	Fort Cliffs and Clifton Baths [Goodman]	Upper Marine Terrace	Kingsgate Castle [Poulton]

Jetty with Paddle steamer [Stodart]	Pier and Jetty [London Photographic]	View in the Harbour	Harbour and Droit House
March 3 2019
Margate Stereos

Pier and Minstrels on beach	Cliffs steps to sands [Goodman]	Marine Terrace with Sands Station in background [Blanchard]	Fort Paragon

Steps to Fort Parade, Billiard Room and Perry's Model bazaar	Ethelbert Crescent and Cliftonville Hotel	Ethelbert Terrace 1877	Union Crescent and New Congregational Church
February 10 2019
Margate Entertainment

College Road looking to Rosedale Photographic, Addiscombe Road, Billy Smart's Circus 1952	College Road looking to Rosedale Photographic, Addiscombe Road, Billy Smart's Circus 1952	Dane Park Gates - opening of carnival week 1922 William Leach Lewis,Mayor	Margate Carnival passing Harbour ca 1920

Jessie Wildon's Band on Jetty 1928	Jessie Wildon's Band on Jetty 1939	Inside Jetty Pavilion	Dane Road Mulberry Tree Bowling Club 1909
January 27 2019
Dent de Lion Prep School

Dent de Lion Preparatory School Garlinge Map c1905	Dent de Lion Preparatory School Garlinge c1905	Dent de Lion Preparatory School Garlinge classroom c1905	Dent de Lion Preparatory School Garlinge dormitory c1905

Dent de Lion Preparatory School Garlinge Entrance c1905	Dent de Lion Preparatory School Garlinge play room c1905	Dent de Lion Preparatory School Garlinge West Front c1905	Dent de Lion Preparatory School grounds Garlinge c1905
January 13 2019
Old Margate

Putting Green below Fort Hill 1930s	Putting Green below Fort Hill 1930s	Rear of Fort Hill 1930s	Fort Hill to Jetty, the Rendezvous

Fort Road Fort Road Hotel H Ward	Bath Road The Good Intent	Union Row No 1 furnished apartments	Zion Place East side 1960