Over the years Sandgate people, sadly some now no longer with us, have written about their memories of Sandgate. Some of these lovely articles have been published in newsletters over the years and these items and others are now reproduced here too.
If you have a Sandgate anecdote or story you would like to share here please do contact me using contact details on the Contact page.
Tales From The Society Archive Team – Shipwrecks and more
Lilla, The Countess of Chichester & The Chichester Memorial Hall
Sandgate Starts With Shipbuilding in 1778 – Fred Moore
A Spoken Memory Project – authored by David Lay Pavement Pounders CIC
Sandgate Heritage Quiz – Sandgate Society
Lockdown But Not Out – David Cowell
When The ‘James and Elizabeth’ Went Down 1886 – Fred Moore
Remembering a Hero – Ann Nevill
Fritz Ewer – Padrayla Holdsworth
A Walk Through Sandgate (part 1) – by Fred Moore
Another Sea Disaster Reported Off Hythe – Fred Moore
No High Street! – Robert Crook
A Stall on the Beach – Robert Crook
School Days and Tony – Robert Crook
Memories of an Evacuee – Jill and Fred Partridge
Lest We Forget – Michael George
The Old Brass Lantern – Robert Crook
Never Heard of the Place! – Vannessa Young
The wooden slipway – Fred Moore
Buckets and Spades – Melita Godden
Growing Up In Sandgate 40/50’s – Bryan Evans
Sandgate – Health of the Town 1854
Memories of Vicars son – Richard Gethin-Jones
Old friends re-united – Jill Partridge
Navigating History – Rob Illingworth
About our Neighbourhood – Fred Moore
Nostomania – Derek St Clair-Stannard
Vera Passing Through – Vera Baxter & Melissa Honour
Getting to know Roger de Haan – Jan Holben
Playing on the Beach – Pam Durrington
My Grandfather; Fearsome Phil – Phil Ogison
King of Cannibal Island – Richard Gray
Rail & Tea, 3/9 each – Robert Crook
Sandgate Castle captures the imagination – Joanie Alford
The Legion d’Honneur Award – Derek St.Clair-Stannard MBE
My memories of Sandgate – Audrey Cockshutt
Wilberforce Road and the Doodle Bug – Mary Mather
Arnold Henry Ullyett Son of Henry Ullyett B Sc – Ros McCarthy
Return to Sandgate – Margaret Cameron
Landslip in Sandgate – Fred Moore
My Father and Shipwrecks – Derek St. Clair-Stannard
Sandgate – The fight against Cholera – 1849
Wartime Sandgate – Some glimpses – Linda Rene-Martin
Sandgate in the 1960’s – Ann Oakford & Tony Adams