Tag Archives: Margate

Margate

Posted on March 30, 2024 by Brian

Mining the Diaries 99: England Flat 2 57 Kingsgate Avenue, Margate 11th November 2022 We drove to Margate, parked in Westbrook, climbed down onto the Westbrook Promenade and walked east in the shadow of the former Royal Sea Bathing Hospital.  … Continue reading →

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Margate

Posted on February 26, 2024 by Brian

Mining the Diaries 90: England Crescent Victoria Hotel, Margate 14th October 2018 I think T S Eliot did Margate a disservice in 1922 when he wrote: On Margate Sands./I can connect/Nothing with nothing./The broken fingernails of dirty hands./My people humble … Continue reading →

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Fly me…

Posted on November 24, 2022 by Brian

Botany Bay (Margate, Kent!) and memories of Frank Sinatra singing the Bart Howard song.

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Connecting

Posted on November 20, 2022 by Brian

‘On Margate Sands. I can connect Nothing with nothing.’ The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot

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Margate Birds

Posted on November 16, 2022 by Brian

I’m rarely tempted to take photographs of birds, but this herring gull (Larus argentatus) and two turnstones (Arenaria interpres) seemed happy to pose on the harbour wall for me.

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Fantastical Worlds, Turner Contemporary, Margate

Posted on November 14, 2022 by Brian

Spent a few days at Botany Day, just outside Margate (technically in Broadstairs, I think).  Visited the Turner Contemporary and was intrigued by this exhibition: ‘Fantastical Worlds is a collaboration between Year 8 students at Royal Harbour Academy and Project Motorhouse. In … Continue reading →

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Covid 19 Day 74 4th June 2020

Posted on June 4, 2020 by Brian
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