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Martello Tower number 9, Folkestone
Unusually this moated Martello is set back from the sea, strategically positioned high up on the hill.
Image: © Oast House Archive
Taken: 11 Jul 2010
0.10 miles
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Seascape, Sandgate Esplanade
The building work of this block of apartments has been completed. I last photographed it when it was
Image
Image: © John Baker
Taken: 2 Mar 2014
0.11 miles
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591 metres
Sign on The Esplanade showing what seems to be an unnecessarily precise distance to the next toilets. The reason for the sign here is presumably because it is near the site of a former toilet block (see
Image), but I would have thought that most people would be happy (or unhappy?) to be told that it was 600m or so to the nearest ones.
The wall in the background is from the Shorncliffe Battery, built to protect the eastern end of the Royal Military Canal. It is a scheduled monument - see www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1005117.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 16 Jan 2017
0.11 miles
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The Esplanade
A flower filled rowing boat alongside The Esplanade, with a shelter and former public conveniences block in the background.
The wall on the right is from the Shorncliffe Battery, built to protect the eastern end of the Royal Military Canal. It is a scheduled monument - see www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1005117.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 16 Jan 2017
0.11 miles
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Chinese Headstones, Shorncliffe Military Cemetery
A small group of Chinese headstones from 1916 to 1918, seen in Military graveyard from Sandy Lane.
Image: © Oast House Archive
Taken: 11 Jul 2010
0.11 miles
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Steps to nowhere
These brick steps are on Sandgate Esplanade.
Have been informed these steps used to lead to Sandgate station.
Image: © David Anstiss
Taken: 19 Nov 2010
0.11 miles
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Building in progress, Sandgate Esplanade
This will be known as Seascape upon completion and is to comprise of fourteen two and three bedroom apartments constructed by Kentish Projects Ltd with a guide price from £340,000 - £550.000 leasehold. The sole agents are C R Child and Partners http://www.crchildandpartners.co.uk
This is how the site looked in David Anstiss' picture
Image
Image: © John Baker
Taken: 5 May 2013
0.12 miles
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Sandgate - 2014
Sandgate, Kent, Sandgate Esplanade, A259, remains of Sandgate Branch Railway Line.
The Sandgate branch was a three mile long railway branch line that ran from Sandling railway station in Kent on the South Eastern Main Line to Hythe and Sandgate railway stations. It opened in 1874 and closed completely in 1951.
Image: © Helmut Zozmann
Taken: 4 Oct 2014
0.12 miles
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Sandgate - 2014
Sandgate, Kent, Sandgate Esplanade, A259, remains of Sandgate Branch Railway Line.
The Sandgate branch was a three mile long railway branch line that ran from Sandling railway station in Kent on the South Eastern Main Line to Hythe and Sandgate railway stations. It opened in 1874 and closed completely in 1951.
Image: © Helmut Zozmann
Taken: 4 Oct 2014
0.12 miles
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Sandgate - 2014
Sandgate, Kent, Sandgate Esplanade, A259, remains of Sandgate Branch Railway Line.
The Sandgate branch was a three mile long railway branch line that ran from Sandling railway station in Kent on the South Eastern Main Line to Hythe and Sandgate railway stations. It opened in 1874 and closed completely in 1951.
Image: © Helmut Zozmann
Taken: 4 Oct 2014
0.12 miles