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)
This castle is now on the edge of the cliff. It was built for servant and horses!
Seagulls and chicks
North Foreland Lighthouse – manned until 1998, the last in the country
In Broadstairs
Charles Dickens is associated with a lot of properties in Broadstairs
York Gate (1540) originally had a portcullis and gates
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
Viking Bay – Hengist and Horsa landed here in 449
The pier dates from Tudor times
Inside a former chapel, now bookshop, with real candles
A Victorian lady and a Victorian postbox
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
More in Victorian costumes at the Victorian Fayre
Looking down on Viking Bay
Now the Dickens House Museum, a character in David Copperfield was based on a lady that once lived here
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