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    allotment. In 1823, Broadstairs had a population of about 300. A brief outline of the history of Broadstairs Pier is given in Broadstairs, past and present...
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    house on the cliff overlooking the North Foreland and Viking Bay in Broadstairs, Kent. It was built around 1801 and then substantially extended, doubling...
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  • children's show Going Live, lives in Broadstairs. Mike Nolan of 1980s pop group Bucks Fizz lives in Broadstairs. Bill Pitt MP, the first member of Parliament...
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  • Broadstairs and St Peter's is a civil parish in the Thanet district of Kent, England. The parish comprises the settlements of Broadstairs, St Peter's...
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    Broadstairs railway station is on the Chatham Main Line in England, serving the seaside town of Broadstairs, Kent. It is 77 miles 9 chains (124 km) down...
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    and Broadstairs, The National Archives Jenny Balston, The Story of St. Stephen's College (1994) ISBN 9780952334309 "St Stephens College, Broadstairs, Kent"...
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    beaches: Minnis Bay, Botany Bay (Broadstairs), Margate Main Sands, St Mildreds Bay (Westgate), Stone Bay (Broadstairs), West Bay (Westgate), and Westbrook...
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    2021. "Odeon Broadstairs in Broadstairs, GB - Cinema Treasures". cinematreasures.org. Retrieved 2021-01-09. "WINDSOR CINEMA, Broadstairs and St. Peters...
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  • "Song of the Mary White" is a ballad written in Broadstairs, England in the early 1850s. It has been suggested that news of the loss of the Irish packet...
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  • Johnson. The title "She's in Broadstairs" parodies that of the 1983 song by "She's in Parties" by Bauhaus. Broadstairs is a quaint seaside resort near...
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    Twist. Other signs of a certain restlessness and discontent emerged; in Broadstairs he flirted with Eleanor Picken, the young fiancée of his solicitor's...
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    Edward Heath (category People from Broadstairs)
    Thatcher would enthusiastically endorse." Heath was born at 54 Albion Road, Broadstairs, Kent, on 9 July 1916, the son of William George Heath (1888–1976), a...
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    was a prominent bookseller in Broadstairs from around 1796 to 1822. Mary Pearson Strong's former home now hosts Broadstairs' Dickens House Museum. There...
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    Shrine of Our Lady, Bradstowe (category Broadstairs)
    Shrine of Our Ladye Star of the Sea was an old chapel on the cliffs at Broadstairs (which was formerly known as Bradstowe). Dating back at least to the...
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    charges. Brocklebank built some more vessels, and formed the Ramsgate and Broadstairs Steam Packet Company. This company had shares dated 29 April 1822. It...
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    A fish and chip shop in Broadstairs, Kent, England...
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    Harrington's hardware store, located close to Ronnie Corbett's holiday home in Broadstairs, Kent. The sketch opens with a throwaway joke as the hardware shopkeeper...
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    The Mary White was a lifeboat based in Broadstairs, Kent, England, named in 1851 after the completion of an heroic rescue of a brig, the Mary White. The...
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  • cappuccino bar on the seafront in Broadstairs, Kent. The ice cream parlour continues to serve visitors to Broadstairs today. After Mario Morelli's retirement...
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  • Marianne Emig. They spent a few weeks in Suffolk and eventually moved to Broadstairs and rented a house. There they befriended British airman Kenneth Lewis...
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    Park, and Regent's Park. A smaller population occurs around Margate, Broadstairs and Ramsgate, Kent. There is also an established population to the North...
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    council is based in Margate and the district also contains the towns of Broadstairs, Ramsgate and Westgate-on-Sea, along with several villages. It takes...
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  • 25 Aachen Hauptbahnhof, Germany Kerton, a British student nurse from Broadstairs, Kent, disappeared in Germany on 30 July 2001. She was last seen by the...
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    British monarch to attend school. After three days at St Peter's Court in Broadstairs as a day boy, Hansell, noticing he liked it, asked the King to send him...
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  • Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire  England Edward Heath 1970 to 1974 Broadstairs, Kent  England James Callaghan 1976 to 1979 Portsmouth, Hampshire  England...
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  • beach scenes showing the athletes running towards the Carlton Hotel at Broadstairs, Kent, were shot in Scotland on West Sands, St Andrews next to the 18th...
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  • Lionel Johnson (category People from Broadstairs)
    claimed Irish descent and wrote on Celtic themes). Johnson was born in Broadstairs, Kent, England in 1867 and educated at Winchester College. While at Winchester...
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  • Mayor Terry Barton Harbour Street in Broadstairs was the exterior for Annie Platt's house in Sandcliff. Broadstairs' streets and beach also featured as...
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  • sent to a day centre. Bennett takes this opportunity to travel down to Broadstairs and meets with the man she frequently visits, who turns out to be her...
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    Botany Bay, Kent (category Broadstairs)
    Botany Bay is a bay in Broadstairs facing the north sea, Kent, England. Botany Bay is the northernmost of seven bays in Broadstairs. It features chalk cliffs...
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