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Westgate-on-Sea Kent

Westgate-on-Sea Kent
Westgate-on-Sea is a seaside town and Civil Parish on the north-east coast of Kent, England. It is within the Thanet local government district and borders the larger seaside resort of Margate Its two sandy beaches have remained a popular tourist attraction since the town's development in the 1860s from a small farming community. The town had a population of 6,996 at the 2011 Census.
The town is notable for once being the location of a Royal Naval Air Service seaplane base at St Mildred's Bay The bay next to this, which defended the Thames Estuary coastal towns during World War 1 The town is the subject of Sir John Betjeman's poem, "Westgate-on-Sea". Residents have included the 19th-century surgeon Sir Erasmus Wilson and former Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple. The artist Sir William Quiller Orchardson painted several of his best-known pictures whilst living in Westgate-on-Sea. The British composer Arnold Cooke attended the town's Streete Preparatory School in the early 20th century,
My father-in-Law ran a nursery in Westgate and was well known for his tomatoes, It is now a block of flats.
The RNAS seaplane base was eventually moved to Manston which became a RAF Station closing in 2014.

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 WiePet
WiePet club
Belated HFF and have a good sunday!
2 years ago.
 Phil Sutters
Phil Sutters club
I went to Westgate in the late 1960s. As a trainee social worker, I and a colleague escorted a party of pensioners from our London borough for a holiday at Ocean Swell guest house. Those were the days when early support was seen as they way to lessen the need for more care provision later.
2 years ago.
 Ruesterstaude
Ruesterstaude club
Ein mondäner Badeort, gut präsentiert!
2 years ago.
 Marije Aguillo
Marije Aguillo club
Hermosa panorámica.
2 years ago.
 Nora Caracci
Nora Caracci club
very lovely scape !
happy WE !
2 years ago.

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