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The three experimental Lighthouses at South Foreland, c.1884/5
From the Gordon Denoon album a photograph depicting three experimental lighthouses marked 'A', 'B' and 'C' on the South Foreland. The South Foreland lighthouse is in the background. The experimental lighthouses were erected by Trinity House ...
Adcock's Villas, St Margaret's Bay. pre and post WW2
Taken from the Gordon Denoon album, two photographs with his accompanying narrative. The first is a copy of a c1910 postcard depicting Adcock's Villas in the foreground and the road along the foot of the cliffs ...
Shipwrecked Preussen, photographs and description
A series of photographs of the stricken sailing ship Preussen from the Gordon Denoon album with Gordon's observations. The wreck is further mentioned in his book 'Saga of St Margaret's':- 'The ship was firmly held in the ...
Denoon family and friends on the Long Steps. 1916 to 1969
Taken from the Gordon Denoon album. A series of four photographs featuring members of the Denoon family and friends taken at the foot of the steps in St Margaret's Bay. The photographs run from 1916 to ...
Wreck of HMS Nubian. 1917
Taken from the Gordon Denoon album. A photograph taken of part of the HMS Nubian driven ashore beneath the cliffs near the South Foreland taken by Gordon Denoon in 1917 with his comments beneath. Followed by an ...
Cliffe Hotel Tennis Courts, Chapel Lane. 1920s
A series of photographs taken from the Gordon Denoon album; the last two with accompanying captions. The first photograph shows two pairs of tennis mixed doubles. The identities are not given but it is probable that ...
St Margaret's Bay from The Leas. 1921 to mid-1950s
Taken from the Gordon Denoon album; three views of St Margaret's Bay taken over a period of approximately 35 years showing the changes to the terrain of the Bay. Included are Gordon's notes relating to these ...
St Margaret's Bay Hotel, St Margaret's Bay. pre and post WW2
Taken from the Gordon Denoon album. The first image is a copy of a postcard of The St Margaret's Bay Hotel, complete with extension, taken in its pomp in the 1930s. The subsequent three photographs taken by ...
Gordon Denoon's father and sister, Muriel, on St Margaret's beach. 1936
From the Gordon Denoon album a photograph taken in 1936 of Gordon's father with his sister, Muriel on St Margaret's Bay beach with the Excelsior Tea Rooms in the background. Below the photograph are Gordon's observations ...
On St Margaret's beach with war damaged houses in the background. 1945
From the Gordon Denoon album a photograph, taken in 1945, of members of the Denoon family on St Margaret's Bay beach with the ruined Excelsior Tea Gardens in the background, together with accompanying caption.
Excelsior Tea Rooms in ruins. 1945
From the Gordon Denoon album this photograph taken in 1945 depicts Gordon's son, Ian, standing in the ruins of what was the Excelsior Tea Rooms. The view is from the east end of the Bay looking ...
The Green Man St Margaret's Bay from ruin to re-build. post WW2
A number of images of the Green Man P.H, (now the Coastguard Pub) following the end of WW2, from the Gordon Denoon album. The first image taken in 1945 shows the pub in ruins, war damaged after ...
War damaged village on the beach. 1945
From Gordon Denoon's album two photographs taken in 1945 depicting the war-damaged and ruined buldings in St Margaret's Bay. The second photograph has Gordon's wife Tommie and son, Ian, in the foreground with an unidentified female ...
Concerns about the future of St Margaret's Bay in the immediate post WW2 years
A series of press articles in the immediate post WW2 years collected by Gordon Denoon voicing concerns about the future of St Margaret's Bay in particular the damage caused by sea erosion and the destruction ...
Denoon family and friends on the foreshore c.1950/51
Three photographs from the Gordon Denoon album. All taken around 1950/51. In the first photograph the figures are identified (from left to right) as Alice Hill, Muriel (Gordon Denoon's sister), Tommie (Gordon Denoon's wife), Mrs Banks ...
High seas breaching the new promenade in St Margaret's Bay. Early 1950s
From the Gordon Denoon album a series of photographs showing the sea at high tide dashing against the new sea wall still under construction.
Letter from the GPO to Gordon Denoon. 1968
A Letter from the GPO dated 1st July 1968 to Gordon Denoon in response to an enquiry about the franking of letters posted in St Margaret's.
Tommie and Mary Denoon Undated c. 1950
Taken from the Gordon Denoon album two photographs of Gordon's wife, Tommie, and one of his daughters, Mary, taken on the cliff top near Leathercote Point, St Margaret's Bay. The first photograph was captioned 'What was ...
Tommie and Joan Denoon in fancy-dress,1926
Taken from the Gordon Denoon album and captioned: 'Ready for the fancy-dress evening, Tommie and Joan in the lane' Tommie and Joan are Gordon's wife and daughter. The lane referred to is Cripps Lane running between the ...
The Granville Hotel, cover of a guide book. c1950s
From the Gordon Denoon album a copy of a front page of a hotel guide depicting the Granville Hotel. Below can be seen the newly constructed sea wall and promenade. Circa 1950s
Tea-time in the garden of the Cliffe Hotel. 1945
From the Gordon Denoon album, with accompanying narrative. Tommie (Gordon's wife) is the dark-haired lady in the deckchair This was the first post WW2 Denoon family holiday in St Margaret's.
Tea Party in the garden of the Cliffe Hotel. 1937
From the Gordon Denoon album; the top photograph has Gordon's caption beneath. The second photograph is a close-up of the first. Joan, Heather and Ian were Gordon and Tommie Denoon's children and Eva and Charles Groves the ...
Tea party at the Granville Hotel. c1916/17
From the Gordon Denoon album. The caption in the album to this photograph read:- Tea party at the Granville Hotel (1916 or 1917) - Dorothy Bladen, Ralph Wackett, Muriel and my mother; I am on the extreme ...
'Doomwatch' television programme filmed at the South Foreland Lighthouse. c.1970
'Doomwatch' was a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC1 between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the then present-day, and dealt with a Scientific Government Agency ...

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