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Category Archives: History
We Need Your Help To Avoid Path Closure
Dear Sandgate Society Members and all Sandgate residents, We need your help please – evidence is needed to avoid an important path closure. There is a path known as Sandy Lane, which goes from the bottom of Hospital Hill up to … Continue reading
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Preserving Sandgate for future generations – Sustainability meeting
The Sandgate Society will be holding a meeting for members on 13th October to explore ideas on what they would like to see happen to make Sandgate more sustainable. If you would like to attend this interesting meeting do contact … Continue reading
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H G Wells Exhibition by the Sandgate Society Archives Team
On 2nd/3rd April 2022 the Sandgate Society Archive Team (Jill, Annie, Chris, Maggie, Frank and Bob) held their H. G. Wells exhibition in the Old Fire Station. On display were many documents and photographs from the archive files along with … Continue reading
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Queen Elizabeth 1926 – 2022
Monarch of sixteen sovereign states, and head of the Commonwealth of Nations. The UK Mourns: Elizabeth II was Queen of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms. Elizabeth was born in Mayfair, London, as the first child of the … Continue reading
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The Return of the Sandgate Walking Tours
We’re delighted that Tony Quarrington is bringing his walking tours back to Sandgate for a third season!
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Samuel Plimsoll – the Sailors Friend
The annual commemoration service, wreath-laying and talk to mark the life of Samuel Plimsoll
Featuring The Old Fire Station
This season’s must-have fashion accessory or simply a very nice bag to keep or give to friends and family is now available from The Village Shop or the Old Fire Station both on Sandgate High Street. A huge thank you … Continue reading
Enbrook Estate Display At Sandgate Library
This fascinating display about Enbrook Estate, now at Sandgate Library, traces the history of the Enbrook Estate from a private residence and grounds in the 1800s to a Star & Garter Home, Police Training College, and now SAGA office and … Continue reading
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The Sandgate Railway – from departure to demise.
The Railway Mania in the mid 1800s was a classic bubble. Middle-class money was thrilled to be part of this huge social enterprise. From 1843 to 1846 hundreds of companies were formed with shares duly issued in anticipation of the … Continue reading
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Sandgate Walking Tours
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Tales From The Archives: Pubs, Pubs, Hotels & Breweries!
As the village’s public houses start to reopen it’s an opportune time to look back at Sandgate’s long history of drinking! There have been over the years many pubs, clubs and hotels in Sandgate in fact at one time it … Continue reading
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H G Wells & Spade House
As you are aware the special exhibition planned by the Sandgate Society Archive Team for 21 November 2020 sadly did not materialise due to the pandemic we are going through. It is also looking increasingly unlikely that 2021 will not … Continue reading
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Sandgate Post Office and other stories
HISTORY OF THE EARLY POST OFFICE IN SANDGATE These notes are part of a lengthy study of the early postal history of Sandgate gathered from the Royal Mail Archive and local historical secondary sources. A receiver at Sandgate is … Continue reading
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Sandgate Society – Latest Tales
For the latest in a series of historical tales about Sandgate village follow this link This month ‘Sea Rescues’ https://sandgatesociety.com/archives/
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