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    allotment. In 1823, Broadstairs had a population of about 300. A brief outline of the history of Broadstairs Pier is given in Broadstairs, past and present...
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    house on the cliff overlooking the North Foreland and Viking Bay in Broadstairs, Kent. It was built around 1801 and then substantially extended, doubling...
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    2021. "Odeon Broadstairs in Broadstairs, GB - Cinema Treasures". cinematreasures.org. Retrieved 2021-01-09. "WINDSOR CINEMA, Broadstairs and St. Peters...
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  • Broadstairs and St Peter's is a civil parish in the Thanet district of Kent, England. The parish comprises the settlements of Broadstairs, St Peter's...
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  • sent to a day centre. Bennett takes this opportunity to travel down to Broadstairs and meets with the man she frequently visits, who turns out to be her...
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    Broadstairs railway station is on the Chatham Main Line in England, serving the seaside town of Broadstairs, Kent. It is 77 miles 9 chains (124 km) down...
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  • children's show Going Live, lives in Broadstairs. Mike Nolan of 1980s pop group Bucks Fizz lives in Broadstairs. Bill Pitt MP, the first member of Parliament...
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    married Mary Culmer of Broadstairs in 1721, she from a family known for its boatbuilding, and one of the founding families of Broadstairs. This first boat would...
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    was a prominent bookseller in Broadstairs from around 1796 to 1822. Mary Pearson Strong's former home now hosts Broadstairs' Dickens House Museum. There...
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    and Broadstairs, The National Archives Jenny Balston, The Story of St. Stephen's College (1994) ISBN 9780952334309 "St Stephens College, Broadstairs, Kent"...
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    Twist. Other signs of a certain restlessness and discontent emerged; in Broadstairs he flirted with Eleanor Picken, the young fiancée of his solicitor's...
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  • Louise Kerton is a British woman from Broadstairs, Kent who went missing in Germany in July 2001. At the time of her disappearance she was a student nurse...
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  • Johnson. The title "She's in Broadstairs" parodies that of the 1983 song by "She's in Parties" by Bauhaus. Broadstairs is a quaint seaside resort near...
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    charges. Brocklebank built some more vessels, and formed the Ramsgate and Broadstairs Steam Packet Company. This company had shares dated 29 April 1822. It...
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    beaches: Minnis Bay, Botany Bay (Broadstairs), Margate Main Sands, St Mildreds Bay (Westgate), Stone Bay (Broadstairs), West Bay (Westgate), and Westbrook...
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  • "Song of the Mary White" is a ballad written in Broadstairs, England in the early 1850s. It has been suggested that news of the loss of the Irish packet...
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    Harrington's hardware store, located close to Ronnie Corbett's holiday home in Broadstairs, Kent. The sketch opens with a throwaway joke as the hardware shopkeeper...
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  • Lionel Johnson (category People from Broadstairs)
    claimed Irish descent and wrote on Celtic themes). Johnson was born in Broadstairs, Kent, England in 1867 and educated at Winchester College. While at Winchester...
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    A fish and chip shop in Broadstairs, Kent, England...
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  • 25 Aachen Hauptbahnhof, Germany Kerton, a British student nurse from Broadstairs, Kent, disappeared in Germany on 30 July 2001. She was last seen by the...
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    council is based in Margate and the district also contains the towns of Broadstairs, Ramsgate and Westgate-on-Sea, along with several villages. It takes...
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    Shrine of Our Lady, Bradstowe (category Broadstairs)
    Shrine of Our Ladye Star of the Sea was an old chapel on the cliffs at Broadstairs (which was formerly known as Bradstowe). Dating back at least to the...
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    Edward Heath (category People from Broadstairs)
    politics, Heath was a yachtsman, a musician, and an author. Born in Broadstairs, Kent, Heath was the son of a chambermaid and carpenter. He attended...
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    it among his top 10 favourite books. The house named Bleak House in Broadstairs is not the original. Dickens stayed with his family at this house (then...
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    Folkestone and Hythe, and Thanet (chiefly three resorts: Ramsgate, Broadstairs, and Margate). West and Central Kent have long had many City of London...
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    the English seaside town of Broadstairs. Broadstairs also lays claim to the longest running Dickens Festival, The Broadstairs Dickens Festival, founded...
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    brother, Prince Henry, to St Peter's Court, a preparatory school at Broadstairs, Kent. At the age of 13, like his brothers, the Prince of Wales, later...
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    British monarch to attend school. After three days at St Peter's Court in Broadstairs as a day boy, Hansell, noticing he liked it, asked the King to send him...
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    he received his education at Wellesley House School, a prep school at Broadstairs in Kent, then at Eton College, where he achieved mention in the Eton...
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    King Faisal II of Iraq; later, he attended Wellesley House School at Broadstairs and Eton College. In 1963, he matriculated at Magdalene College, Cambridge...
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