Local men and boats on St Margaret's Bay beach.19thc

Fishermen and boats on St Margaret's Bay beach.19thc

The men are identified left to right as:

James Powell (born in the village and farmed Street Farm, now Knoll Court, in the centre of the village, known for its horses and for hosting the village to an annual harvest supper in their barn. They also made butter and cheese for sale and ran a grocery shop and coal business there) Source: Dover Express obituary for his son Horatio Powell, 8th Dec 1939

Edward Gage (died December 1908, age 92) and
James Hammond

Subject

People Photographs (34)

St Margaret's Bay (763)

Place

St Margaret's Bay

Reference number

MARG.04634

Format

Still image (3567)

Keywords

Beach (107)

License

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC-BY-NC-ND)

Comments about this page

Thanks for letting me know. By chance I have recently been looking at the history of Street Farm which James Powell farmed for many years and have just added a bit of additional info to the photo. If you have any photos of James or his family I would love to see them
By Christine Waterman (21/04/2021)
James was the 2nd husband of my great great grandmother Eleanor Rayner née Marsh born c1818.
By Leigh Prideaux (15/04/2021)
Many thanks for helping us to pin down the date. I have been doing some work on James Powell lately in connection with his farm, Street Farm, now replaced by Knoll Court, in the middle of the village.
By Christine Waterman (14/04/2021)
I think this photo was perhaps taken around or before 1890. James Powell died in 1890 aged 74 and James Hammond died 1896 born c1819. Edward Gage was born c1816.
By Leigh Prideaux (06/04/2021)