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Book Synopsis Margate Through Time by : Anthony Lee
Download or read book Margate Through Time written by Anthony Lee and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Margate has changed and developed over the last century
Book Synopsis Margate Through Time by : Anthony Lee
Download or read book Margate Through Time written by Anthony Lee and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Margate has changed and developed over the last century
Book Synopsis The Kent Coast Gravesend to Margate Through Time by : Anthony Lane
Download or read book The Kent Coast Gravesend to Margate Through Time written by Anthony Lane and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the Kent Coast has changed and developed over the last century
Download or read book Secret Margate written by Andy Bull and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secret Margate explores the lesser-known history of the Kent seaside town of Margate through a fascinating selection of stories, unusual facts and attractive photographs.
Book Synopsis Afton of Margate Castle by : Angela E Hunt
Download or read book Afton of Margate Castle written by Angela E Hunt and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful, headstrong Afton is taken from her parents at an early age and raised in the castle, a companion to the earl's daughter. Schooled in the ways of kings and surrounded by splendor, Afton falls in love with the earl's son, brave, Calhoun, her childhood protector. But Calhoun's mother, the Lady Endeline, has much different plans for him than marriage to a villein's daughter. Suddenly Afton's world is torn viciously apart. She is cast out of the castle, given to a man she fears and despises as a reward for his loyalty-an all too clear reminder that, for all her dreams, she is nothing but a villein. Now all she has left is a burning desire for vengeance . . . What people have said about Afton of Margate Castle: "Forgiveness and reconciliation are strong words-as is the word reality. All three are here in Angie Hunt's Afton of Margate Castle. I recommend it to you." -Eugenia Price"A great story demonstrating the universality of human nature, which is the foundation for the relevance of all history. Afton's search for her own identity within a traditional cultural context is as contemporary as tomorrow's newspaper." -Thomas O. Kay, Chairman of the History Department, Wheaton College
Book Synopsis Margate's Seaside Heritage by : Nigel Barker
Download or read book Margate's Seaside Heritage written by Nigel Barker and published by Historic England. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seaside holiday and the seaside resort are two of England's greatest exports to the world. Since the early 18th century, when some of the wealthiest people first sought improved health by bathing in saltwater, the lure of the sea has been a fundamental part of the British way of life, and millions of people still head to the coast each year. Margate has an important place in the story of seaside holidays. It vies with Scarborough, Whitby and Brighton for the title of England's first seaside resort, and it was the first to offer sea-water baths to visitors. Margate can also claim other firsts, including the first Georgian square built at a seaside resort (Cecil Square), the first substantial seaside development outside the footprint of an historic coastal town, the site of the world's first sea-bathing hospital, and, as a result of its location along the Thames from London, the first popular resort frequented by middle- and lower-middle-class holidaymakers. It is unlikely that Margate will ever attract the vast numbers of visitors that flocked there in the 19th and early 20th centuries. However, with growing concerns about the environmental effects of air travel and a continuing awareness of the threat of excessive exposure to the sun, the English seaside holiday may enjoy some form of revival. If Margate finds ways to renew itself while retaining its historic identity, it may once again become a vibrant destination for holidays, as well as being an attractive place for people to live and work.
Book Synopsis All The Devils Are Here by : David Seabrook
Download or read book All The Devils Are Here written by David Seabrook and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years ago, in a series of mysterious, incandescent writings, David Seabrook told of the places he knew best: the declining resort towns of the Kent coast. The pieces were no advert for the local tourist board. Here, the ghosts of murderers and mad artists crawl the streets. Septuagenarian rent boys recall the good old days and Carry On stars go to seed. Clandestine fascist networks emerge. And all the time, there is Seabrook himself - desperate perhaps, and in danger. Dark, strange and immediate, this is a classic work of sui generis British literature. There are devils here, and the reader will remember them.
Book Synopsis Picture of Margate and Its Vicinity by : Walley Chamberlain Oulton
Download or read book Picture of Margate and Its Vicinity written by Walley Chamberlain Oulton and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 edition. Excerpt: ... margate. We shall now, according to the accompanying plate, take a general view of Margate, a markettown and borough, in the jurisdiction of the liberties of Dover, and in the county of Kent, situated on the sea-coast, at the northern extremity of the Isle of Thanet, sixteen miles distant from Canterbury, forty-four miles E. N. E. from Maidstone, and seventy-two and a half miles E. from London. It was formerly called St. John's, it being in the parish of St. John the Baptist: its present name (properly MeregateJ is derived from an opening, or gate, through which there was a small stream, or mere, running into the sea. Though now a watering place of much fashionable resort, it was formerly a mean fishing town, irregularly built, and the houses generally old and low. Its antiquity, however, is much more considerable: it has been a member of the port and town of Dover from a remote period; and, even in Leland's time, there was a pier " here for shyppes;" but " sore decayed;" the time of building which is unknown. When the survey of maritime places in Kent was made in the eighth year of Queen Elizabeth's reign, the number of houses in Margate was 108; " persons lacking proper habitations, eight; boats, and other vessels, fifteen, viz. eight of one ton, one of two, One of five, four of eighteen, and one of sixteen; the persons belonging to these boats, occupied in the carrying of grain, were sixty." It was, however, in such repute in the coasting trade, and for its fishery, as to hold a market in the reign of Charles I., of which a monthly return was made to Dover; but this was soon discontinued. On the scite of the present pier there was anciently a small creek, which probably gave origin to the town, from the shelter it afforded to fishing...
Download or read book Strangeland written by Tracey Emin and published by Sceptre. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intimate memoirs of one of the most acclaimed and controversial artists of her generation. Here I am, a fucked, crazy, anorexic-alcoholic-childless, beautiful woman. I never dreamt it would be like this. 'Frequently affecting...intriguing, almost incantatory' Telegraph Tracey Emin's Strangeland is her own space, lying between the Margate of her childhood, the Turkey of her forefathers and her own, private-public life in present-day London. Her writings, a combination of memoirs and confessions, are deeply intimate, yet powerfully engaging. Tracey retains a profoundly romantic world view, paired with an uncompromising honesty. Her capacity both to create controversies and to strike chords is unequalled in British life. A remarkable book - and an original, beautiful mind. 'As spare and poignant as one of Emin's line drawings' Marie Claire
Download or read book Dreamland written by Rosa Rankin-Gee and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Children of Men, Years and Years & Station Eleven, a postcard from a future Britain that''s closer than we think. An Evening Standard ''Best New Book'' ''A beautiful book: thought-provoking, eerily prescient and very witty.'' Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half ''Water courses through its pages, as rising sea levels heighten inequalities, buoy populist politicians and wash away every certainty of civilisation. But there''s also the novel''s prose - its liquid grace and glinting sparkle - and the sheer irresistibility of a narrative that sweeps along with a force that feels tidal in its pull.'' The Observer ''''You said that you would come back. You looked me in the eye and said that. Well, if you had, this is what you would have seen: soft wood, black cracks, fridges in the road. The broken spines of old rides at Dreamland.'' In the coastal resort of Margate, hotels lie empty and sun-faded ''For Sale'' signs line the streets. The sea is higher - it''s higher everywhere - and those who can are moving inland. A young girl called Chance, however, is just arriving. Chance''s family is one of many offered a cash grant to move out of London - and so she, her mother Jas and brother JD relocate to the seaside, just as the country edges towards vertiginous change. In their new home, they find space and wide skies, a world away from the cramped bedsits they''ve lived in up until now. But challenges swiftly mount. JD''s business partner, Kole, has a violent, charismatic energy that whirlpools around him and threatens to draw in the whole family. And when Chance comes across Franky, a girl her age she has never seen before - well-spoken and wearing sunscreen - something catches in the air between them. Their fates are bound: a connection that is immediate, unshakeable, and, in a time when social divides have never cut sharper, dangerous. Set in a future unsettlingly close to home, against a backdrop of soaring inequality and creeping political extremism, Rankin-Gee demonstrates, with cinematic pace and deep humanity, the enduring power of love and hope in a world spinning out of control. ''She vividly captures the balance between ferocity and vulnerability as the two girls explore their burgeoning desire; one minute they''re greedy for each other, the next they''re proceeding more gingerly. Theirs is a great first love, blazing bright and furious amid the poverty and the pain, the perfect counterweight that''s needed to make the novel sing. Dreamland brings us face-to-face with much of what we''re on the threshold of losing; nevertheless, it manages to convince us that its characters have everything still to live for.'' Guardian ''A great coming-of-age story, and a warning.'' Evening Standard ''This brutal read has moments of hope and love but also serves as a hideous warning to fight for what''s right'' Daily Mail ''Brilliantly bleak... this compelling novel is horribly plausible, chilling and feels like a warning that''s come too late.'' Daily Mirror ''Chance''s life is filled with poverty, crime, drugs and fear - until she meets Franky, a girl unlike anyone else she knows. Their relationship brings light and love...'' Daily Express ''Rankin-Gee''s novel is a triumph, being as much a love letter to the heady ups and crashing lows of youthful entanglements as it is a paean to the former grandeur of its stark coastal setting. Read this now.'' GQ ''A writer of a new time... A writer we will all want to read again and again.'' Monique Roffey, author of the Costa Book of The Year The Mermaid of Black Conch "Dazzling and shattering" Nell Dunn, author of Up The Junction and Talking to Women ''The writing clings like sand. Unexpected turns of phrase have burrowed deep into the recesses of my brain. She has created a vivid, textural portrait, teeming with life and granular, sensory detail as well as wisdom. It does what the most haunting of apocalyptic novels do, which is to shine a light on what is already happening around us and ask that we wake up.'' Olivia Sudjic, author of Asylum Road ''Entrancing... A dark and devastating funhouse ride through curtailed innocence and apocalyptic experience. And- most uniquely- a love letter to the waning magic and melancholy of British seaside towns. It is its own twist on the lucid dystopias of Diane Cook, Kirsten Roupenian and Emily St John Mandel. The book is also deeply cinematic- I was reminded, throughout, of Terry Gilliam''s waterlogged neo-noir fantasy Tideland, as well as the dreamy realism of the films of Andrea Arnold and Lynne Ramsay.'' Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti ''Rankin-Gee is a visionary empath. Every page of this book both broke my heart and made me laugh out loud. What a feat!'' Jac Jemc, author of The Grip of It and False Bingo
Book Synopsis Kent's Seaside Resorts Through Time by : John Clancy
Download or read book Kent's Seaside Resorts Through Time written by John Clancy and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the developments of the typical seaside resort from its inception in the eighteenth century through to its heyday
Book Synopsis A Trip To Margate by : William Robinson (Esq )
Download or read book A Trip To Margate written by William Robinson (Esq ) and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis A Trip to Margate by : William Robinson (Esq )
Download or read book A Trip to Margate written by William Robinson (Esq ) and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2015-08-23 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The Forward Book of Poetry 2021 by : Various Poets
Download or read book The Forward Book of Poetry 2021 written by Various Poets and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The annual Forward Book of Poetry brings news from the frontlines of the contemporary poetry boom. The judges of the Forward Prizes, described by the Daily Telegraph as 'the most coveted awards in British poetry', have chosen the best work from the year's UK crop of new collections and literary journals. Their selection combines fresh voices with familiar names, making the book essential reading for seasoned poetry enthusiasts and new readers alike.
Book Synopsis Kent (Slow Travel) by : Simon Richmond
Download or read book Kent (Slow Travel) written by Simon Richmond and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folkestone resident and globe-trotting travel writer Simon Richmond turns the spotlight on his home county in this brand new title, part of Bradt's award-winning series of Slow travel guides to UK regions. Walkers, cyclists, families, food and art lovers, and wildlife enthusiasts are all catered for, with coverage of a wide range of attractions, as well as all the practical information you could need to plan and enjoy time spent in this delightful corner of England. The diversity of Kent is striking, from Canterbury Cathedral, part of a Unesco-listed World Heritage Site, to Dungeness, Kent's southernmost point, Britain's only officially recognised desert and home to artist and film-maker Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage. The village of Pluckley was once named England's most haunted by the Guinness World Records, while St Leonard's Church in Hythe has the largest and best-preserved collection of ancient human skulls and bones in Britain.This in-depth guide covers all the most popular places as well as many of the lesser-known ones, dividing the county into five easy-to-follow chapters. Explore Dover and spend time at its iconic White Cliffs, saunter through Vita Sackville-West's gorgeous gardens at the National Trust's Sissinghurst estate, visit the grave of Pocahontas in Gravesend, and contemplate the delightful and thought-provoking public art of the revitalised seaside town of Folkestone. History has been made in Kent, at Hever Castle, where Anne Boleyn spent her childhood and which was later restored by William Waldorf Astor, and at Chartwell, the family home and garden of Sir Winston Churchill. Kent's food and drink offering is increasingly celebrated, with a growing reputation for high quality restaurants and boutique wineries, not to mention the world's oldest brewer and largest collection of fruit trees at Faversham.From flora and fauna to castles, watersports, beaches and wildlife, discover Kent with Bradt's unique Slow guide.
Book Synopsis The Margate Tales by : Stephen Channing
Download or read book The Margate Tales written by Stephen Channing and published by Ozaru Books. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is without doubt one of the best ways of getting a feel for what the people of England in the Middle Ages were like. In the modern world, one might instead try to learn how different people behave and think from television or the internet. However, to get a feel for what it was like to be in Margate as it gradually changed from a small fishing village into one of Britain’s most popular holiday resorts, one needs to investigate contemporary sources such as newspaper reports and journals. Stephen Channing has saved us this work, by trawling through thousands of such documents to select the most illuminating and entertaining accounts of Thanet in the 18th and early to mid 19th centuries. With content ranging from furious battles in the letters pages, to hilarious pastiches, witty poems and astonishing factual reports, illustrated with over 70 drawings from the time, The Margate Tales brings the society of the time to life, and as with Chaucer, demonstrates how in many areas, surprisingly little has changed.
Book Synopsis Towards a Promised Land by : Wendy Ewald
Download or read book Towards a Promised Land written by Wendy Ewald and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guide to Wendy Ewald's exhibition of large-scale banner photopgraphs of children from Margate, hung around the town.
