Margate, The Sands 1961
Photo ref: M31029
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Memories of Margate, the Sands 1961

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This is a very evocative picture. My parents used to take me on two week long summer holidays to the Kent coast in the 1950s to early 1960s - Margate, Westgate, Broastairs, Birchington. They were exciting times. Although it was only an 80 minute journey from Bromley, where we lived, it was like entering a different world to me. The scene in this picture, with a packed beach, summons up a bygone era when ...see more