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Margate has been a leading seaside resort for at least 250 years. Like its neighbours Ramsgate and Broadstairs it has been a traditional holiday destination for Londoners drawn to its sandy beaches. Edward Hasted, writing in the 18th century, described Margate as a "poor fishing town", but in 1810, when describing the shore, he wrote: "... [it ...
The town's history is tied closely to the sea and it has a proud maritime tradition. Margate was a "limb" of Dover in the ancient confederation of the Cinque ports. It was added to the confederation in the 15th century. Margate has been a leading seaside resort for at least 250 years.
Margate was in the Sandwich Collection, and the town of Margate made up the Margate Division, with the surrounding countryside, probably corresponding to the rest of the parish of St John’s, making up the Margate Out-Ride.
During the Georgian era, from 1714 to 1830, the town of Margate was transformed from a small run-down fishing village into one of the first sea-side resorts. This 212 page large-format book with 150 full coloured illustrations tells the story of this transformation, in maps, pictures, caricatures and prints of the time.
Margate is one of England’s first seaside resorts. Since the early 18th century, people have been visiting the town to bathe in the sea, first for health reasons, but in more recent years for pleasure and a change of scenery. The presence of visitors transformed this once small working coastal town into a playground for some of the
Here the history of Margate is taken up to 1736, a date less arbitrary than it may at first seem. The fortunes of Margate were to be transformed by the fashion for sea bathing. Bathing and swimming have, of course, very long histories.
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1777 New Market Place opened. 1786 JMW Turner (1775-1851) first came to Margate, aged 11, to stay with an uncle, a fishmonger in the town. He attended the Thomas Coleman’s School on the corner of Love Lane and Hawley Street. 1787 Theatre Royal opened opened in Addington Square.
