Thanet Collection

Joss Bay Cliffs
The white chalk cliffs and foreshore at Joss Bay, Isle of Thanet, Kent, England. Date: 1950s

Moses Montefiore / Quiver
SIR MOSES MONTEFIORE British Jewish philanthropist, born in Italy, visiting an orphanage in Thanet

Woking and District 29 seater Thanet bus. Date: circa 1940

Reginald Rait Canvassing on the Isle of Thanet, 1923
Photograph showing the youngest candidate standing in 1923, Reginald I. Rait (Liberal) (centre of image), canvassing a voter in the Isle of Thanet

1840s Victorian Map of Kent

1840s Victorian Map of Isle Of Thanet

Tram on Madeira Walk, Ramsgate, Kent
Tram on Madeira Walk (operated by The Isle of Thanet Electric Tramways and Lighting Company), Ramsgate, Kent with view outward the Harbour

Thornycroft demonstration bus, Thanet. Date: circa 1940

Entrance to public dug out bomb shelter in Margate, WW1
The entrance to a public dug-out in Trinity Square, Margate, Kent, designed to offer underground safety to members of the public during air raids during the First World War

Ramsgate Sands - Busy beach, looking towards town, Church Tower. Part of Box 145 Boswell Collection - East Coast. Ramsgate is a seaside town in the district of Thanet in east Kent, England

Viking Bay, Broadstairs, Kent
Viking Bay, Broadstairs, Thanet, near Margate/Ramsgate, Kent, England. Date: 1950s

Thanet Union workhouse, Minster, Kent
A distant view of the Thanet Union workhouse opened in 1836 at Minster on the Isle of Thant. It was designed by Sir Francis Head. Date: Date unknown

Two women with lifebelt and sailors caps
Two women wearing sailors caps, posing inside a lifebelt from the passenger steamer, the Queen of Thanet-- NMSPC stands for the New Medway Steam Packet Company. Date: circa 1930s

St Peters Orphanage, Isle of Thanet, Essex
The garden of St Peters Orphanage, Isle of Thanet. A group of women sit on the grass, one in a deckchair. Nearby, a girl holds a rake. Date: circa 1905

Loading an ambulance at Ramsgate Town Station
Loading a stretcher into an ambulance at Ramsgate Town Station in March 1916. Several men, including service personnel and a civilian are assisting lifting a stretcher holding a patient into the top

Stretcher bearers waiting for ambulance train arrival
A group of civilians are standing by parked ambulance vehicles inside a station building at Ramsgate Town Station. On the ground nearby are several stretchers

VAD Ambulances at Quex Park
The two Quex Park VAD Ambulances are parked outside the front of Quex House. A stretcher is being unloaded from Q1, while Q2 alongside is closed up

The Shallows Cottage
Two ladies in the garden of an English country cottage in The Shallows, near St Peters, Thanet, Kent Date: circa 1820

Thanet VAD Motor Transport Group and stretcher bearers outside The Yarrow Home for Convalescent Children (date - journal). Sir Alfred Yarrow opened this home in 1894

VAD Ambulance & Patients, Quex Park
Voluntary Aid Detachment Ambulance & Patients, Quex Park. Major Powell-Cotton converted two of his personal cars into ambulances and was the Area Transport Officer (VAD)

Thanet Union Childrens Homes and Village Hall, Kent
The Isle of Thanet Union cottage homes at Manston, Kent. The homes, which comprised four pairs of houses, were erected in 1901 to accommodate pauper children away from the workhouse

Margate Crowded Beach
Holiday makers crowd the beach, Margate, on the Isle of Thanet, Kent, England

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