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Land Army girls building a haystack. 1940s
One of several propaganda photographs taken during WW2 at Reach Farm, which became known as 'Britain's Frontline Farm' due to its vulnerability to bombing and shelling from occupied France. The farmer, Gilbert Mitchell, was awarded ...
Land clearance on The Leas reveal wartime concrete bases. 1 March 2003
Photographs taken on the 1 March 2003 on The Leas near the Granville Flats, of land clearance which exposed concrete bases possibly from a hut when there was a searchlight/gun battery here in WW2.
Letter from Joseph Danko of the Anglo American Association with WW2 casualties at Langdon Cliffs. 1986
A letter from Joseph Danko of the 127th AAA Gun Bn. Association dated 28th September 1986 sent to Ruth Nicol in answer to her request for a list of casualties at Langdon Cliffs in WW2
Letter from the Admiralty Office agreeing on condition of Townsend Farm after acquisition during WWII. 1941
Photocopy of a letter dated [4?] April 1941 from the Admiralty Office in Bath agreeing to the condition of Townsend Farm. [Original in East Kent Archives]
List of fire incidents attended by St Margaret's fire crew from the ARP Logs 1940 to 1945
Records taken from the ARP Logs 1940 - 1945 with the fire incidents that St Margaret's Fire Crew attended.
Messerschmitt 109 downed at Nelson Park. September 15th 1940
Extract from 'The Battle of Britain - Then and Now' with details of a German Messerscmitt 109 crashing at Nelson Park.
Mitchell family look across the Channel in wartime. 1942
Gilbert Mitchell, his wife and her sister, Gladys Harrison, look across farmland at St Margaret's to the Channel in May 1942. The Mitchell's ran Reach Court Farm which they bought just before the war. They continued ...
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.
On St Margaret's beach with war damaged houses in the background. 1945
From the Gordon Denoon album. The ruined buildings referred to in the caption are, on the left, Adcock's Villas and, to the right, Beachin and Egglinton Cottages.
On St Margaret's beach with war damaged houses in the background. 1947
From the Gordon Denoon album. The bathers sitting below the concrete ramp which formed part of the Bay war defences are identified as Tommie (Gordon's wife), Ian (Gordon's son), Mrs Engholm, Valerie and David Ebbels, Nancy ...
On St Margaret's beach with war damaged houses in the background. 1948
From the Gordon Denoon album. A series of photographs of sea bathers on the beach at St Margaret's Bay with the ruins of the village in the Bay as a backdrop. In the background of the first ...
Peter Ustinov's Blockhouse with Cold War Radar installation in the distance
A photograph showing The Blockhouse on the cliff top above the Bay where Peter Ustinov was stationed during the war and which he later bought. On the other side of the Bay can be seen ...
Plan of Street Farm and local fields requisitioning during WW2
This photocopied plan appears to concern Street Farm and wartime requisitioning in 1940. Associated papers indicate that Mr Edward P Burton, tenant farmer of Townsend Farm is also involved with the requisitioning and compensation by the ...
Post war proposals for development in the village and the Bay. 30 November 1945
A photocopy of a press cutting outlining the rival ideas for the future development of St. Margaret's at Cliffe and the Bay, dated Friday November 30 1945.
Proposal that St Margaret's become a heavy gunnery school. 30 November 1945
This is a copy of a press cutting entitled' (S)HELL FIRE CORNER VILLAGERS UP IN ARMS, and concerns the differing views of villagers as to whether the wartime guns should be removed or stay in ...
Rebuilding the Green Man in The Bay. 1954
A press cutting from 'The Evening News' dated January 21 1954 reporting the re-building of the Green Man in St Margaret's Bay.
Red Cross nurses in war time
Of the back row of six only three have been identified, from left: Miss Kenway, followed by Mrs Gough, and at the end on the right, Molly Molesworth. Of the front row only the last two have ...
Red Cross nurses in wartime. pre 1944
The front row of six are: Annie Sharp, Mrs Gough, Mrs Wellard, Miss N Kenway, Miss L Kenway and Mrs Bakewell. Only two of the four in the back row have been identified (from left): Mrs Melhuish (Snr) ...
Remains of Beach defences in St Margaret's Bay. c1948
From the Gordon Denoon album. Two photographs with accompanying caption showing the beach just after the war and some of the defensive structures left behind.
Removal of War Debris from the Bay. 1948
A press cutting of a letter to the Dover Express complaining of no progress in the removal of war debris such as barbed wire from The Bay, annotated 23 January 1948.
Requisition condition report for Townsend Farm during WW2. 20 August 1940
Record of the condition of portions of the Farm House and premises included in the form of requisition prior to the Admiralty taking over responsibility from 20 August 1940. Taken 26 August 1940. [East Kent Archives ...
Schedule of Townsend Farm lands owned by Earl Granville, 24 June 1941
Schedule of Townsend Farm lands owned by Earl Granville as at 24 June 1941 and surveyed by Amos & Dawton, Chartered Surveyors and Valuers of Canterbury. [Original in East Kent Archives?]
Sergeant Mercer, Spitfire Pilot, forced landing St Margaret's Bay. May 1941
Details of the crash at St Margaret's and a photograph of Sgt Mercer's grave.
Signpost on The Leas 'Explore St Margaret's Frontline Britain Trail'. July 2004
New signpost being erected at the Leas pointing to the World War 2 trail. taken July 2004
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