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    The Margate Jetty (also known as Margate Pier) was a pier in Margate, Kent, in England initially constructed of wood in 1824. It was rebuilt in iron in...
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    holiday destination for Londoners drawn to its sandy beaches. Margate had a Victorian jetty which was largely destroyed by a storm in 1978. In the late...
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  • running the schools subsequently went into administration. Margate Jetty, also known as Margate Pier, which was designed by Eugenius Birch in 1856, has suffered...
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    construction, as was with Margate which opened in 1824. The first iron and timber built pleasure pier Margate Jetty, opened in 1855. Margate pier was wrecked by...
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    piers to attract the greatest number of tourists. In 1853, a group of Margate businessmen approach Birch to build the first screw-pile pier in Britain...
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    December 1896, it was suggested that the lifeboat should be moved to Margate Jetty, where two slipways would be built to provide an operating capacity...
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    only a short section intact and the pier-head isolated out at sea. Margate jetty (to distinguish from stone harbour walls) which had been closed since...
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    between 1906 and 1922, transporting coal from the mines at Kaoota to a jetty in Margate for shipping. In 2016, the town marked 150 years since its gazettal...
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  • Bleue et Contrebasses Turner – The Beacon Light Turner – Off Margate Turner – Margate Jetty Van Dyck – Portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria, as St Catherine...
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    of Proserpine 1839 National Gallery of Art, Washington 92.6 x 123.7 Margate Jetty 1840 National Museum Cardiff 47 x 37 Waves Breaking against the Wind...
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  • bought as J. M. W. Turners. Three of these, The Beacon Light, Margate Jetty and Off Margate, were subsequently judged to be fake, and were withdrawn from...
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    Redcliffe Jetty, Settlement Cove Lagoon, Suttons and Margate Beaches, Scarborough Beach Park with its Cottonwood trees, Redcliffe Museum, Woody Point Jetty, HMQS...
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    streets in a clockwise direction: Oxley St-Duffield Rd-Ernest St-Albert St-Margate Pde-Whytecliffe Pde-Gayundah Esplanade-Lilla St-Alfred St. Competitors...
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    tidal river) to the end of the Kent/Essex strait of the North Sea (between Margate to the south and Gunfleet Lighthouse, near Frinton-on-Sea, to the north...
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    Britain, was introduced on the Isle of Thanet. The towns of Ramsgate, Margate and Broadstairs were linked by 11 miles of track. In 1915–1916, early aircraft...
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  • Lightermen transfer goods between ships and quays (including wharves, jetties and piers) – they specifically loaded (originally 'laded') and unloaded...
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    104), a landing jetty was built at the end of North Pier in incremental stages between 1864 and 1867. The full length of the jetty was 158 yards (144 m)...
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    for sale. In the 1920s, further sales, with land north of the Redcliffe Jetty [1920], in the Walsh Estate [1927], and the Sea Breeze Estate [1929] occurred...
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    Peter's, and had a population in 2011 of about 25,000. Situated between Margate and Ramsgate, Broadstairs is one of Thanet's seaside resorts, known as...
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    locally and put to work. By 1822, the Margate SP Co. alone carried over 27,000 passengers to and from Margate and competition was brisk. The biggest...
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    bogs and creeks to a hill on Bongaree about 300 yards (270 m) from the jetty to establish a Catholic church with a hall and a priest's residence. The...
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    Public bathing pavilions were opened at Suttons Beach, Margate, Woody Point and Redcliffe jetty in 1937, and a koala sanctuary and zoo was established...
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    Artificial reefs Edithburgh jetty Gibraltar Artificial Reef Merkanti Reef Port Hughes jetty Port Noarlunga jetty Rapid Bay jetty Shark River Reef South Channel...
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    in neighbouring Margate to the south. Attractions such as Suttons Beach(location of Luna Park Redcliffe (1944 to 1966), Redcliffe Jetty, Settlement Cove...
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    Queenstown between 1849 and 1920), situated to the east of the small Pilots Jetty, just off The Mall, overlooking Cork Harbour, on the south coast of Ireland...
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    Thames steamers which took passengers from London to Southend-on-Sea and Margate, Clyde steamers that connected Glasgow with the resort of Rothsay and the...
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    TV show with Capt. Norm Issacs for ESPN". Photographed reconstructed on jetty, with head, limbs and anterior portion of mantle shown ventrally, but (detached)...
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  • Wirrina Cove Port Lincoln Marina Port Vincent Marina Tumby Bay Marina Margate Marina, Barretta, Tasmania Melbourne Metropolitan & Port Phillip VicUrban...
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  • April 1980 SA Warradale Rescued suicidal woman from the sea at Brighton Jetty 865536 STEVENS, Stuart Anton 28 April 1989 Vic Frankston Bravery Medal 9...
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    in the 1990s followed the creation of the Neptune's Arm sea defence jetty. The jetty has created a small harbour used by leisure boats and from where tourists...
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