Margate... again!

I know what you are thinking.... you can take the girl out of Margate but you can't take Margate out of the girl! I had to go back last week. It was a beautiful sunny day on Friday and I had a couple of hours to kill. So after a good rummage around my favourite junk shop I headed into the town. If only people could see the potential there. Yes it's run down, yes it's full of half way houses and yes it has serious immigration and unemployment problems... but let's just forget that for a while and look at the fabric from which it was woven.

It has one of the best beaches in Kent, rows and rows of beautiful Victorian terraces, a great old town full of nooks and crannies, the ancient "shell Grotto"(which is just fab by the way!) the up and coming Dreamland... that great concrete Lido, and let's not forget the Turner Centre Art gallery due to open next year... I don't need to say any more. I love it, and I believe that one day the breath of life will once again be given to Margate and it will heave with potential.

Here are some pictures of the WW2 memorial on the sea front, and an old sign from the Dreamland arcade.