Margate, Kent
A crowd gathers on The Sands at Margate, drawn by some entertainers with a harp. Margate was one of the first villages on the Isle of Thanet to develop as a seaside resort. It was here that the bathing hut was invented in 1753.
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A crowd gathers on The Sands at Margate, drawn by some entertainers with a harp. Margate was one of the first villages on the Isle of Thanet to develop as a seaside resort. It was here that the bathing hut was invented in 1753.
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