Broadstairs
Viking Bay, Broadstairs' largest beach Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2304x1728, 806 KB) Summary Taken by James Armitage, Saturday 10th September 2005. ...
Broadstairs shown within Kent
Population	24,370 (2001 census)
OS grid reference	TR395675
- London	81.6mi
District	Thanet
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Broadstairs
Postcode district	CT10
Dialling code	01843
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
UK Parliament	South Thanet
European Parliament	South East England
List of places: UK • England • Kent

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Broadstairs is a coastal town on The Isle Of Thanet in East Kent, England, 76 miles east of London with excellent and first class road links (1 hour from the M25) with a population of about 22,000. Situated between Margate and Ramsgate, it is one of the seaside resorts on the Isle of Thanet, often known as the "Jewel in Thanet's crown". Broadstairs derives its name from the Anglo-Saxon word Bradstow(e).The Town crest motto is Stella Maris - Star of the Sea For the area of the same name, see Isle of Thanet. ... For other uses, see Kent (disambiguation). ... Margate was known as Meregate (in 1254) or Margate (in 1293) is on the Isle of Thanet in Kent, England. ... See also Ramsgate (disambiguation) for other places with this name. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... For the area of the same name, see Isle of Thanet. ...

As a civil parish, it includes the St. Peter's area and is known as Broadstairs and St. Peters, which had a population of 24,000. A civil parish (usually just parish) in England is a subnational entity forming the lowest unit of local government, lower than districts or counties. ... St Peters in Thanet ( scī Petr -1254, scī Petri 1270, St. ...

History

Pre 1400

The inland village of St Peters established after the building of a parish church in about 1080. A nearby fishing settlement developed in the 14th century known as Bradstow. Old English for "broad-stairs", it was named after stairs carved in the chalk cliffs, leading to the beach from the cliff-top 12th-century Shrine of St Mary.^[1] Charles Culmer, son of Waldemar, is supposed to have built the stairs for the fishermen in 1350. The stairs have survived to this day and were first repaired by Richard Culmer over three hundred years after their original construction.^{[citations needed]} The Shrine of Our Ladye Star of the Sea in Bradstowe (now Broadstairs) was an old chapel that dated back at least to the 1350s. ... Events 29 August - An English fleet personally commanded by King Edward III defeats a Spanish fleet in the battle of Les Espagnols sur Mer. ... Sir Richard Culmer (1612-1633) was the eldest son of Sir Henry Culmer (~1574-1633), the first Baron Culmer. ...

1400-1600

In 1440, an archway was built by George Culmer across a track leading down to the sea, where the first wooden pier or jetty was built in 1460. A more enduring structure was to replace this in 1538, when the road leading to the seafront, known as Harbour Street, was cut into the rough chalk ground on which Broadstairs is built, by another George Culmer. Going further in defence of the town, he built the York Gate in 1540, a portal that still spans Harbour Street, and which then held two heavy wooden doors that could be closed in times of threat from the sea.

1700-1815

In 1723, Broadstairs had a population of about 300.^[1] A brief outline of the history of Broadstairs Pier is given in Broadstairs, past and present, which mentions a storm in 1767, during which Culmer's work was all but destroyed. At this time it was of considerable importance to the fishing trade with catches as far afield as Great Yarmouth, Hastings, Folkestone, Dover and Torbay and elsewhere being landed. It had become so indispensable that the Corporations of Yarmouth, Dover, Hythe and Canterbury with assistance from the East India Company and Trinity House subscribed to its restoration with a payment of £2,000/~ in 1774. Year 1767 (MDCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... Great Yarmouth, often known to locals simply as Yarmouth, is an English coastal town in the county of Norfolk. ... For other uses, see Hastings (disambiguation). ... , Folkestone (IPA: ) is a coastal resort town in the Shepway district of Kent, England. ... , Dover is a major channel port in the English county of Kent. ... Torbay (IPA: ) is an east-facing bay, at the western most end of Lyme Bay in the south-west of England, situated roughly midway between the cities of Exeter and Plymouth. ... The British East India Company, sometimes referred to as John Company, was the first joint-stock company (the Dutch East India Company was the first to issue public stock). ... Trinity House, London (January 2007) A meeting at Trinity House circa 1808 // The Corporation of Trinity House is the official General Lighthouse Authority for England, Wales and other British Territtorial Waters (with the exception of Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland). ...

By 1795, York Gate needed repair to repel any threat from the French Revolutionary Wars; the subsequent renovation was undertaken by Lord Hanniker in the same year as the first lightship was placed on the Goodwin Sands. Lightship can mean: Lightvessel - For permanently moored ships that have light beacomes mounted on them, see Lightvessel Lightship condition - in which a vessel has the least draft possible. ... The Goodwin Sands are a 10-mile long sand bank in the English Channel, lying six miles east of Deal in Kent, England. ...

On the occasion of the landing at Thanet, of Major John Percy, on 21 June 1815 with the captured French eagle standard taken at Waterloo, a tunnel stairway from the beach to the fields on the clifftops above was excavated, and christened Waterloo Stairs to commemorate the event. Broadstairs was the first town in England to learn of this historic victory. is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... April 5-12: Mount Tambora explodes, changing climate. ... Combatants French Empire Seventh Coalition: United Kingdom Prussia United Netherlands Hanover Nassau Brunswick Commanders Napoleon Bonaparte, Michel Ney Duke of Wellington, Gebhard von Blücher Strength 73,000 67,000 Anglo-Allies 60,000 Prussian (48,000 engaged by about 18:00) Casualties 25,000 killed or wounded 7,000...

Smuggling was an important industry in the area and the men of Broadstairs and St Peters became very good at outwitting The Revenue Men This was very profitable because of the very high duty payable on tea, spirits and tobacco .There is a network of tunnels and caves strewn in the chalk strata which were used by smugglers to hide their contraband.

Development as a seaside resort

By 1824 steamboats were becoming more common, having begun to take over from the hoys and sailing packets about 1814. These made trade with London much faster. The familiar sailing hoys took anything up to 72 hours to reach Margate from London, whereas the new steamships were capable of making at least nine voyages in this time. Mixed feelings must have been strongly expressed by the Thanet boatmen in general, as the unrivaled speed of the steam packet was outmanoeuvering all other classes of vessel, but it brought a new prosperity to Thanet. In the middle of the 18th century, the professional classes began to move in. By 1850, the population had reached about 3,000, doubling over the previous 50 years. Due to the fresh sea air, many convalescent homes for children opened towards the end of the 19th century.^[1] Year 1814 (MDCCCXIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ...

Railways

Although numerous holidaymakers were attracted to Broadstairs and to other Thanet seaside towns during the Victorian era, it was not directly served by rail until 1863. This was time of great expansion for railways in the south-east; in 1860 Victoria Station had been completed, followed by Charing Cross and Cannon Street. Rail access to Broadstairs had previously relied heavily upon coach links to other rail stations in the district or region; with firms such as Bradstowe Coachmasters, operated by William Sackett and John Derby, principally involved. Their coaches connected Broadstairs to Whitstable station where a railway service had begun as early as 1830 (one of the first in England, with its pioneering Stephenson's engine The Invicta). By 1851, the region's network was still more complete, being supplemented by the London to south-coast route, including the coastal link from Chichester to Ramsgate, the cross-country service between London and Dover, and the mid-Kent line that linked Redhill, Tonbridge and Ashford to London's new terminal at Waterloo (opened in 1848). Broadstairs station (unlike neighbouring Margate) is a 10 minute walk from the beach. Although rebuilt in the 1920s electricity was not installed at the station until well into the 1970s and the buildings and platforms remained gaslit until then. For the area of the same name, see Isle of Thanet. ... Queen Victoria (shown here on the morning of her ascension to the Throne, 20 June 1837) gave her name to the historic era The Victorian era of the United Kingdom marked the height of the British Industrial Revolution and the apex of the British Empire. ... Year 1863 (MDCCCLXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Victoria station in London is a London Underground and National Rail station in the City of Westminster. ... The Victorian Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross The name Charing Cross, now given to a district of central London in the City of Westminster, comes from the original hamlet of Charing, where King Edward I placed a memorial to his wife, Eleanor of Castile. ... Cannon Street is a road in the south of the City of London. ... Whitstable is a town in Kent, England with a population of 30,000. ... George Stephenson George Stephenson For the British politician, see George Stevenson. ... For the larger local government district, see Chichester (district). ... See also Ramsgate (disambiguation) for other places with this name. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... , Dover is a major channel port in the English county of Kent. ... , The town of Ashford lies on the River Great Stour, M20 motorway, South Eastern Main Line and Channel Tunnel Rail Link railways, in the borough of Ashford, located just south of the North Downs, in Kent, England. ...

1840-1900

In 1841, 44 mariners were recorded as resident in Broadstairs; nine of these being specified as fishermen, and of course the residual boat-building activity that remained after the Culmer~White yard closed in 1824 (under pressure from the steamships), still continued (though there were only four shipwrights recorded in the census: Solomon Holbourn and Joseph Jarman among them). Others may have been at sea on census day: Steamer Point, as the pier head at Broadstairs was then known, would have been fairly busy with shipping movements since consignments of coal and other produce would have been traded along the coast and there would have been regular work on the steam packet to and from Ramsgate. By the 1840s, the smuggling had ceased.^[1] See also Ramsgate (disambiguation) for other places with this name. ...

Present

By 1910, the population had reached about 10,000. A "guide book" of the 1930s by A H Simison (the photographic chemist) entitled Ramsgate (The Kent Coast at its best) Pictorially Presented, describes Broadstairs town as having approached modernisation and urban development "always with a consistent policy of retaining those characteristics for which it has for so long been renowned". Certainly the town has retained a great many aspects of historical interest, besides its maritime history. Amongst these is its notable religious history, evoked by places such as the Shrine of Our Lady, Bradstowe. The 1930s (years from 1930–1939) were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression, also known as the World Depression. ... The Shrine of Our Ladye Star of the Sea in Bradstowe (now Broadstairs) was an old chapel that dated back at least to the 1350s. ...

Today Broadstairs has retained it's "old world charm" which makes it a magnet for visitors year after year and has been likened to a "Cornish fishing town".

Lifeboats

Lifeboats arrived in Broadstairs in 1851. It has been suggested that news of the loss of the Irish Packet Royal Adelaide with 250 lives, on the sands off Margate on 6 April 1850, was the prompt that led to old Thomas White to present one of his lifeboats to his home town of Broadstairs that summer. The lifeboat saw its first use on 6 March 1851 when the brig Mary White became trapped on the Goodwin Sands during a severe gale blowing from the north. A ballad was written to celebrate the occasion, Song of the Mary White. Margate is a town in Thanet, Kent, England (population about 60,000). ... is the 96th day of the year (97th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the game, see: 1850 (board game) 1850 (MDCCCL) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday [1] of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... is the 65th day of the year (66th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1851 (MDCCCLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... The connection of Broadstairs with the saving of life at sea goes back to at least 1851, such was the bravery displayed by the Lifeboat crew on this occasion that it excited a great deal of enthusiasm throughout Kent and the following ballad was composed to honour the men involved. ... This article needs cleanup. ...

Solomon Holbourn, Coxswain of the Mary White of Broadstairs had an aunt, Sophia who married at Folkestone in 1813 to William Stevenson. His eldest son William became a mariner and boatman, and married an Elizabeth Wellard in 1839 at St Peters, Broadstairs. One of their children, born in 1848, was named after his father William, but in his adult life was better known as Bill ‘Floaty’ Stevenson, and as such as a member of the Frances Forbes Barton lifeboat crew. The "Frances Forbes Barton" was originally, in 1897, the legacy of a Miss Webster to the boatmen of Broadstairs. It is recorded as having remained at that station until 1912, when it was moved to the Walmer station when the Broadstairs one closed, during which time it had been taken out on 77 launches and saved 115 lives, by far the most effective of the RNLI craft stationed there. The connection of Broadstairs with the saving of life at sea goes back to at least 1851, such was the bravery displayed by the Lifeboat crew on this occasion that it excited a great deal of enthusiasm throughout Kent and the following ballad was composed to honour the men involved. ... , Folkestone (IPA: ) is a coastal resort town in the Shepway district of Kent, England. ... RNLI lifeboat station on The Strand in Walmer - the present boathouse was built in 1871 Over two thousand ships are believed to have been wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, and the masts of several wrecks are visible from the shore at low tide. ...

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Geography and Climate

The town lies above a harbour, historically known for smuggling. Some 20 miles from both Dover and Canterbury, and approximately 60 miles from the M25, London's orbital motorway, it is a popular resort for daytrippers and holidaymakers. It has seven bays of golden sand, which are Viking Bay, Louisa Bay, Kingsgate Bay, Dumpton Gap, Botany Bay, Stone Bay and Joss Bay. Broadstairs has changed very little over the past fifty years, a feature that brings visitors back time and again. Nearby, with its beach below, is Kingsgate Castle once the home of Lord Holland, but now converted into private residences. Several follies of the castle still exist within the area. A harbor (or harbour) or haven is a place where ships may shelter from the weather or are stored. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... , Dover is a major channel port in the English county of Kent. ... Canterbury is a cathedral city in east Kent in South East England and is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Primate of All England, head of the Church of England and of the worldwide Anglican Communion. ... The M25 motorway looking south between junctions 14 and 15, near Heathrow Airport. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Kingsgate Castle on the cliffs above Kingsgate Bay was built for Lord Holland (Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland) in the 1760s. ...

• Broadstairs has a very mild Maritime climate throughout the year.

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Demographics

As of the 2001 UK census, the Broadstairs had 24,370 residents and 10,597 households. Of those households, 34.2% were married couples, 6.7% were cohabiting couples and 8.3% were lone parents. 31.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 20.9% had someone living alone at pensionable age. 25.7% of households included children aged under 16, or a person aged 16 to 18 who was in full-time education.^[2] UK Census 2001 logo A nationwide census, commonly known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday 29 April 2001. ... This article is about a living arrangement. ...

The town has a low proportion of non-white people compared to national figures; the ethnicity recorded in the 2001 census was 97.9% white, 0.7% mixed race, 0.3% Chinese, 0.7% other Asian, 0.2% black and 0.2% other.^[2] The amount of foreign-born residents is relatively low; the place of birth of residents in 2001 was 94.7% United Kingdom, 0.7% Republic of Ireland, 0.5% Germany, 0.9% other Western Europe countries, 0.3% Eastern Europe, 0.8% Africa, 0.6% South Asia, 0.5% Far East, 0.3% North America, 0.2% Middle East, 0.2% Oceania and 0.1% South America.^[2] Religion was recorded as 75.3% Christian, 0.4% Muslim, 0.3% Hindu, 0.3% Buddhist and 0.3% Jewish. 14.3% were recorded as having no religion, 0.5% had an alternative religion and 8.6% did not state their religion.^[2]

The age distribution was 5% aged 0–4 years, 14% aged 5–15 years, 5% aged 16–19 years, 26% aged 20–44 years, 27% aged 45–64 years and 24% aged 65 years and over. There was a high percentage of residents over 65, compared with the national average of 16%, mainly due to seaside towns being popular retirement destinations. For every 100 females, there were 87.1 males.^[2]

Government {National and local}

• The Member of Parliament for South Thanet is Dr Stephen Ladyman of the Labour Party. He has been the constituency's MP since the 1997 general election, when he took the seat from the Conservative Jonathan Aitken. At the 2005 general election, Labour won a majority of 664 and 40.4% of the vote in South Thanet. Conservatives won 38.8% of the vote, Liberal Democrats 13.2%, United Kingdom Independence Party 5.0%, Green Party 2.2% and an independent 0.5%.^[3]South Thanet within political circles is considered to be a marginal seat.The parlimentary candidate for The Conservative party is currently Laura Sandys.

• Broadstairs is within the Thanet local government district. The town contains the five electoral wards of Bradstowe, St Peters, Beacon Road, Viking and Kingsgate. These wards have eleven of the fifty six seats on the Thanet District Council. As of the 2007 local elections, all eleven of those seats were held by the Conservative Party.^[4] Broadstairs and St Peters Town Council has 15 members,who are elected every four years, led by the mayor, .^[5]

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Economy

As a seaside resort, the economy is mainly based around tourism; there are hotels and guest houses on and near the seafront, to accommodate the influx of all year round visitors.Although the number of hotels in recent years has declined because of the high land redevelopment values this has resulted in an improvement in quality of the existing premises. The High Street has a wide variety of independent shops and services, and there are a small number of factories mainly situated on the small industrial estates on the town's borders. The elderly population (many retire to the "seaside")has led to many health and social care jobs at local care homes. As of the 2001 UK census, 1.8% of the population resided in a medical or care establishment, compared with the national average of only 0.8%.^[2] Many jobs in education are provided by the town's relatively high number of schools and colleges.

As of the 2001 census, the economic activity of residents aged 16–74 was 34.1% in full-time employment, 12.8% in part-time employment, 10.0% self-employed, 2.9% unemployed, 2.3% students with jobs, 4.1% students without jobs, 20.0% retired, 6.5% looking after home or family, 4.9% permanently sick or disabled and 2.4% economically inactive for other reasons. The percentage of retired people was significantly higher than the national figure of 14%. The percentage of unemployed people was low compared with the national rate of 3.4% and the district rate of 4.4%. 12% of residents aged 16–74 had a higher education qualification or the equivalent, compared with 20% nationwide. The Office for National Statistics estimated that during the period of April 2001 to March 2002, the average gross weekly income of households was £522 (£27,219 per year).^[2] The University of Cambridge is an institute of higher learning. ... Office for National Statistics logo The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the United Kingdom government executive agency charged with the collection and publication of statistics related to the economy, population and society of the United Kingdom at national and local levels. ...

The industry of employment of residents, at the 2001 census, was 15% retail, 14% health and social work, 13% manufacturing, 13% education, 10% real estate, 8% construction, 7% transport and communications, 6% public administration, 5% hotels and restaurants, 3% finance, 1% agriculture and 5% other community, social or personal services. Compared with national figures, there was a relatively high number of workers in the education and health/social care industries and a relatively low number in finance and real estate.^[2] Many residents commute to work outside the town; as of the 2001 census, the town had 9,842 employed residents, but there were only 9,049 jobs within the town.^[2]

Retail,Commerce & New Development

Broadstairs' Chamber of Commerce has existed for over 100 years and has been instrumental in establishing links between traders and authority as well as raising money for projects including the town's CCTV scheme it organises events and promotes tourism to benifiet the town economy as well as the local customer and visitors. Chambers of commerce are business advocacy groups which are usually not associated with government. ...

Residential building land is now scarce and property prices within Broadstairs tend to fetch more money than the rest of Thanet. For the area of the same name, see Isle of Thanet. ...

Broadstairs has seen major development in its area recently with a large out of town shopping develpoment at Westwood called Westwood Cross this in turn has attracted national retailers, a new Travelodge hotel a casino and a multi-screen vue cinema a new fitness centres as well as Nando's ,Frankie and Benny's and Chiquittos.restuarants Westwood Cross is a shopping plaza in Thanet, East Kent. ... Travelodge refers to several hotel chains around the world. ... In computing, Visual User Environment (VUE or HP-VUE) was Hewlett-Packards Desktop environment for the X Window System. ... The Nandos logo. ...

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A high speed train link to London is planned and should be running by 2009. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

Attractions

• There is a small cinema "The Palace Cinema" (formerly known as the The Windsor) in Harbour Street
• Also in Harbour Street the Pavilion on the Sands, hosts a summer show as well as all-year entertainment,there are extensive view across the bay.
• Harbour street is home to the towns only amusement centre in the town.
• The beaches at Botany Bay and Joss Bay have both been awarded the Blue flag rural beach award in 2005.Viking Bay beach,the main beach in Broadstairs,won the Blue Flag in 2006.
• The Main beach (Viking Bay)has a number of cafes and ice cream outlets.
• Punch and judy and Donkey Rides a feature of the summer beach entertainment.
• There are 4 firework displays on Wednesday evenings over Viking bay in the summer and a free display on November 5th.
• Floral displays compliment the town in the summer.
• The Dicken's House museum is situated on the seafront.
• Crampton Tower by the raiway station houses a museum.
• Harringtons in York Street is a family run traditional old Fashion hardware store, where you can buy anything from a single nail to a complete set of saucepans - and everything in between. It is a real Aladdin's Cave and has that smell and odour which brings back memmories of a yesteryear and that "Arkrights" from BBC comedy "Open All Hours" feel.Although not really an attraction it is a must see for any visitor.
• Broadstairs has a large Variety of restuarants pubs and bars catering for all tastes.

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Education

Junior and Infant

• Bromstone County Primary School.
• Haddon Dene School(private)
• St Josephs Rc Primary school.
• St Mildreds infant school
• Upton Junior School
• Wellesley House School .
• St Peter-in-Thanet CEJ School

Secondary modern and Grammar

• Dane Court Grammar School
• St Georges C of E Foundation School.
• The Charles Dickens School
• Hereson School for boys.

Dane Court Grammar School is a mixed sex Grammar School in Broadstairs, Kent, United Kingdom with about 1,200 students. ...

Colleges and Universities

• Thanet College.
• Canterbury Christ Church University.

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Foreign Language

• Kent School of English
• Hilderstone College .

Cultural events and venues

• The Broadstairs Dickens Festival is held annually in honour of the novelist Charles Dickens in the third week of June with a Christmas event in December now part of the calendar. The festival includes a production of one of Dickens' novels and people about the town wearing Victorian dress. The festival first took place in 1937, when Gladys Waterer, the then owner of Dickens House, conceived the idea of commemorating the centenary of the author's first visit by putting on a production of David Copperfield, a novel written in the town.^[6]

• Each summer, the town holds the Folk Week music festival. The main acts perform at the Concert Marquee in one of the town's campsites, but smaller gigs are also held in many pubs, restaurants and cafés.^[7]

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Notable residents and visitors

Bleak House where Dickens wrote David Copperfield in a study overlooking the harbour and the sea.

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The town has seen some notable residents and visitors.

• Former Conservative leader and Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath
• Engineer Thomas Russell Crampton
• Queen Victoria spent many summers in Broadstairs as a child, staying at Pierremont Hall.
• Oliver Postgate, creator of the children's TV puppet shows, the Clangers and Bagpuss as well as others
• Trevor of TV comic duo Trevor and Simon notably of Saturday childrens show Going Live lives in Broadstairs.
• Gary Rhodes Celebrity Tv Chef was a student of catering at the Thanet College.

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TV and Film location

Broadstairs is a favourite location for TV programmes and adverts

• The E.ON windfarm advert "The Wind of Change" was filmed here
• Scenes featured in the Churchill Insurance advert were filmed on the jetty.

• The Channel Four programme Relocation Relocation has recently featured Broadstairs.

• The Thriller TV drama October starring actor Stephen Tompkinson was filmed in and around Broadstairs.

• The police station featured in The Only Fools and Horses episode "Jolly Boy's Outing was infact in Broadstairs

• Jo Brand has filmed comedy sketches for her TV shows on the Beach.

• MeridianTV produced a lifestyle programme called "Alfresco" and featured Broadstairs.

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Twin town

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Gallery

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External links

Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Broadstairs.

• Local Maritime Volunteer Service
• Broadstairs and St. Peters Town Council(Broadstairs Chamber of Commerce link here )
• Personal Perspective
• Crampton Tower
• Broadstairs Dickens Festival

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References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} History Of Broadstairs & St Peters. Broadstairs and St Peters Town Council. Retrieved on 2007-05-29.
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Neighbourhood Statistics. Statistics.gov.uk. Retrieved on 2007-03-29.
3. ^ South Thanet. Guardian.co.uk. Retrieved on 2007-05-29.
4. ^ Council & Democracy. Thanet District Council. Retrieved on 2007-03-29.
5. ^ Council — People. Broadstairs and St Peters Town Council. Retrieved on 2007-06-11.
6. ^ Broadstairs Dickens Festival. BroadstairsDickensFestival.co.uk. Retrieved on 2007-05-29.
7. ^ Broadstairs Folk Week. BroadstairsFolkWeek.org.uk. Retrieved on 2007-05-29.
8. ^ Twinning Town. Broadstairs and St Peters Town Council. Retrieved on 2007-05-29.