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Margate Collection

Background imageMargate Collection: Floating Jazz Festival trombonist

Floating Jazz Festival trombonist
A trombonist taking part in the Floating Jazz Festival on board a ship from London to Margate. Date: 1957

Background imageMargate Collection: Floating jazz festival, 1957

Floating jazz festival, 1957
A smiling woman dances on board a ship during the floating festival of jazz, from London to Margate, 1957. Date: 1957

Background imageMargate Collection: Floating jazz festival musicians, 1957

Floating jazz festival musicians, 1957
Musicians play on board a ship during the floating festival of jazz, from London to Margate, 1957. An bowler hat style mute rests on a stand next to the trumpeter. Date: 1957

Background imageMargate Collection: Working Horse Lunch

Working Horse Lunch
A little girl in a bathing costume feeds a working horse at the seaside, probably Ramsgate or Margate, Kent, England. Date: early 1930s

Background imageMargate Collection: Cat Stealing Herrings

Cat Stealing Herrings
A naughty cat stealing fresh Margate herrings off a barrow! Date: early 1930s

Background imageMargate Collection: Cleaning Life Buoys

Cleaning Life Buoys
Using a huge crane to lift life buoys out of the River Thames for cleaning. Date: early 1930s

Background imageMargate Collection: Delivering Milk

Delivering Milk
An old lady on the doorstep of her house ( Southbank ), pays the milk girl (wearing rather a short coat and long socks) for the pail of milk she has delivered, Margate, England. Date: early 1930s

Background imageMargate Collection: Margate Milkmaids

Margate Milkmaids
Two Margate milk girls working for E. Orchin, wheeling a cart of fresh milk along a street of fine Edwardian houses. Date: early 1930s

Background imageMargate Collection: German Shepherd Smoking

German Shepherd Smoking
The talented German Shepherd of Mrs. L. Goodwin of All Saints Avenue, Margate, drinks, smokes and wears clothes. Date: early 1930s

Background imageMargate Collection: Taking it Easy Margate

Taking it Easy Margate
Holidaymakers enjoying snoozing and reading newspapers on deckchairs at Margate, with a very crowded beach in the background. 1957



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