BROADSTAIRS

Kent                                                                                                                     Map of trip

18th June 2015                                                                                                  Photos by Hetty

On the way from Margate to Broadstairs, we stopped at Josh Bay and walked along the coast to Kingsgate Bay. (Broadstairs has seven bays)

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This castle is now on the edge of the cliff. It was built for servant and horses!

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Seagulls and chicks

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North Foreland Lighthouse  –  manned until 1998, the last in the countryS1058025 copy

In Broadstairs

Charles Dickens is associated with a lot of properties in Broadstairs

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York Gate (1540) originally had a portcullis and gates

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The large building is Bleak House – used by Charles Dickens as a holiday home. The Old Boathouse (white building on the right) has heads from wrecked ships

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Viking Bay – Hengist and Horsa landed here in 449

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 S1058041 copyThe pier dates from Tudor times

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Inside a former chapel, now bookshop, with real candles

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S1058064 copyA Victorian lady and a Victorian postbox

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Jubilee Clock Tower. The original one commemorated Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, but it was burned down in the 1970s. This replacement celebrated Queen Elizabeth II’s Silver Jubilee

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More in Victorian costumes at the Victorian Fayre

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Looking down on Viking Bay

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Now the Dickens House Museum, a character in David Copperfield was based on a lady that once lived here

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