Margate Museum Research Archive

The museum has built up a paper archive which gives much information about local topics. This archive is held in some 400 files, which are available to researchers and to members of the public interested in seeking information about a subject of interest to them. The files can be studied at the museum and copies of pages may be made. A list of current subjects is shown below.

Before visiting the museum to carry out research, it is best to telephone the Curator, on (01843) 231213, to make sure that the museum will be open when you wish to visit and that the file you would like to view will be available.

Bound copies of local newspapers from 1890 to 1970 are also available, as are a number of local maps ranging from 1821 to 1950. The museum also has a large collection of Sunbeam photographs of local places, taken in the 1950s and 60s.

By clicking on a letter below, you can link straight to the topics beginning with that letter (for example, "P" for Paddle Steamers).

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	RESEARCH ARCHIVE
	The museum has built up a paper archive which gives much information about local topics. This archive is held in some 400 files, which are available to researchers and to members of the public interested in seeking information about a subject of interest to them. The files can be studied at the museum and copies of pages may be made. A list of current subjects is shown below. Before visiting the museum to carry out research, it is best to telephone the Curator, on (01843) 231213, to make sure that the museum will be open when you wish to visit and that the file you would like to view will be available. Bound copies of local newspapers from 1890 to 1970 are also available, as are a number of local maps ranging from 1821 to 1950. The museum also has a large collection of Sunbeam photographs of local places, taken in the 1950s and 60s. By clicking on a letter below, you can link straight to the topics beginning with that letter (for example, "P" for Paddle Steamers). A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
	"A Dream Came True" - the Dreamland story A.R.P. Bertram T Bergg C.D. Actors Airport, Ramsgate Alms Houses and Workhouses Archaeology Artists Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (Top of page) Bandstands Pavilions Banks and Banknotes Bathing Machines Bellarmine Jugs Bellmen - Town Sergeants of Margate Between the Lines (Journal of the Western Front Association) Birchington/Westgate Pubs Bobby's (F.J. Bobby's & Co.) Bottles - Mineral Waters Broadstairs and St. Peters Historic Broadstairs Bays and Harbour Broadstairs Businesses Broadstairs by Bill H Lapthorne Broadstairs Pubs Brooks and Mere, Margate Bruce Fleet Photo Album Buffs, The (The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)) Buildings, Historic Buildings, Listed Buses & Charabancs Businesses, Broadstairs Businesses, Cliftonville Businesses, Margate Businesses, Ramsgate Butlins Bygone Kent Volumes 1-15 (Top of page) Carnival (It's Carnival Time) Cemetery and Crematorium Charabancs & Buses Charles Dickens and Festivals Childrens' Homes Churches and Religions Churchill, Winston Cinemas Cinque Ports Civic Margate Broadstairs Ramsgate Civic Newspaper Cuttings Cliftonville & Margate Photographs Cliftonville Cliftonville Businesses Clocktower Coal Fields Coal Trade Coast Protection Coastguard (HM Coastguard - Permanent Station Record) Cobbs Comic Postcards Concert Parties & Touring Theatre Companies - Early 1900s Convalescent Homes Coroner and Courts (Top of page) Dane Court, St. Peters-in-Thanet Day by Day magazines. Broadstairs Late 1930s Early 1950s Day by Day magazines. Margate 1938/9 Thanet 1950s Dent de Lion - Garlinge Dickens Festival Programmes Dickens, Charles Directories, Miscellaneous Dog Racing Dr Arthur Rowe Dreamland Dreamland Druids - Masonic etc. Dunkirk Lifeboats Dunkirk Little Ships Durlock Grange Minster. The Tudors (Top of page) Early Schools Earthworm (Thanet Archaeological Trust Newsletter) East Kent Critic East Kent Pubs Electoral Registers (1920-1938) Elites in Edwardian Kent Emin, Tracey Exploring Thanet (Top of page) F.J. Bobby's & Co. Famous People Farming in Thanet Ferries, Ramsgate Fetes (Committee Reports & Paperwork 1908 & 1901) Fire Brigades Fleet, Supt H Bruce (Supt. H Bruce Fleet, Police, CD, RNLI) Follies Football Fossils Fox (Sydney Harry Fox 1920) Frank Matthews Photo Slides (Top of page) Gas Masks and Respirators Gas Works General Items Geology Goodwin Sands Guest Houses (Top of page) Harbour, Ramsgate Harvey's - Steelcase Strafor Hawley Square Historic Birchington-on-Sea Historic Broadstairs and St. Peters Historic Buildings Historic Cliftonville Historic Margate Historic Ramsgate Historic Sandwich Historic Thanet Historic Westbrook Historic Westgate-on-Sea HM Coastguard - Permanent Station Record Hoare, Mayor G.P. (Mayor G.P. Hoare) Holy Trinity Church Home Front (World War Two Home Front Book) Home Front Documents (IDs, Ration Books) Home Guard, The Hoopers Hill House Hornby (Triang - Hornby) Horse Racing Hospital, Opening of General 1930 Hospitals Hotel Photographs Hotels and Guest Houses Hoverlloyd Hovercraft (Top of page) Images of War (4 volumes) Isle Magazine Isle of Thanet (Keble's) Gazette Isle of Thanet Light Railway (Trams) Paperwork It's Carnival Time (Top of page) J.M.W. Turner, Marine Artist (Top of page) Kelly's Directory 1886 Kent Coal Fields Kent One Kent Two Kent Yeomanry (Books) Kentish Hops Kent's Public Houses Kingsgate (Top of page) Laminated Pubs Info Landmarks Laundries Legal Documents Libraries Lido Lifeboats Listed Buildings Local Businesses Local Churches and Religions Local Cinemas Local Coal Trade Local Council Boundary Papers 1930/40s Local Dog and Horse Racing Local Fire Brigades Local Follies Local Football Local Geology - Fossils Local Hospitals Local Hotel Photographs Local Hotels and Guest Houses Local Laundries Local Maritime Local Parks and Gardens Local Police Local Schools Local Seaside Entertainers Local Sports People and Clubs, Youth Groups Local Theatres Local Transport Local Villages Local Windmills Lord George Sanger Louis Wain, Cat Artist of Westgate-on-Sea (Top of page) M.H.S. - Master Copies - M.M. Manston - Civil Airport Manston RAF (see RAF Manston) Maps Margate Ambulance Corps Margate Borough Police Force Margate Brooks and Mere Margate Businesses Margate Caves (Vortigern) and Shell Grotto Margate Civic Society Newsletters Margate Clocktower Margate College Margate Corporation Papers Trams -1900 / Lighting - 1934 Margate Corporation Street Lighting Papers Margate Directory 1903-04 Margate Fetes (Committee Reports & Paperwork 1908 & 1901) Margate From 1736 - Resort History Margate High Street Margate Historical Society Margate Lifeboat Margate Lifeboats Margate Lifeboats 1900-1933 Margate Lifeboats 1933-1950 Margate Lifeboats 1950-1980 Margate Lifeboats Pre-1900 Margate Lifeboats Station Records Margate Maritime and Fishing Margate Mayors 1857-1961 Margate Mayors 1961-date Margate Museum Margate Museum Friends Group Newsletters Margate Museum Photos Margate Museum Summer Exhibitions Margate Pier and Harbour Company Margate Pier and Harbour Company - Cashbook and Paperwork Margate Pier and Jetty Margate Pubs Margate Schools Margate Surfboats Margate Theatres 1730-1965 Margate Tudor House Margate War Memorials Margate, Historic Margate's Cannon Margate's Old Town Streets Marine Pavilion - Sun Deck Marine Place (Kursaal) Marine Terrace and Marine Parade (Photographs of..) Maritime Mayor G.P. Hoare (WWII) Mayors, Margate (see Margate Mayors 1857-1961 & 1961 to date) Mechanical Elephant and Lucy Medway Queen (PS Medway Queen) Men At War 1914-1945 (Osprey Publishing) Military (General ) TA Minster Abbey Minster-in-Thanet Miscellaneous Directories Mods and Rockers 1964 Montefiore (Sir Moses Montefiore) Motor Vessels Steamers (Top of page) N.S.D.A.P National Newspapers on Royalty National Newspapers on WWII National Savings Movement Natural History of Thanet Nazi Spies and Blackshirts Newspaper Cuttings Newspaper Cuttings Newspapers 1960s Kennedy death, Churchill death, Moon Landing North Family (The) North Foreland Lighthouse & North Foreland Radio Northdown House (Top of page) Old Mounted Photographs Old Town Hall and Margate Museum Opening of General Hospital 1930 (Top of page) Paddle Steamers Parks and Gardens Pegwell Bay and Villages Pfizer Ltd, Sandwich Photo Slides Photographic Collection (Tillcock) 1900-1930s Photographs of Marine Terrace and Marine Parade Photos & Programmes Youth Events Winter Gardens & Lido 1950s Pinder Families Books and Photos Police Police (Margate Borough Police Force) Politics Population, Thanet Postal History Postcards - Broadstairs Postcards - Cliftonville (Newgate Gap, Palm, Walpole & Foreness Bays) Postcards - Margate Postcards - Margate (Main Sands, Hotels, Harbour) Postcards - Margate (The Jetty, Clocktower, Bandstands, Winter Gdns) Postcards - Margate Sands and Harbour Postcards - Ramsgate Postcards - Trams Princess Mary Hospital Project 2000 Cobbs of Margate inc Shipping, Banking etc. Project Local Railways Project World War One Thanet and General Project World War Two - Thanet and General Pryor, Canon (Rev Canon Michael Pryor D.D.) PS Medway Queen Public Houses Pubs, Birchington Pubs, Broadstairs Pubs, East Kent Pubs, Margate Pubs, Ramsgate Pubs, Village Pugin (Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin) (Top of page) Queens Highcliffe and Dolphinarium Quex Park, Birchington (Top of page) RAF Manston - Aircraft Railways (see Project Local Railways) Ramsgate Airport Ramsgate Businesses Ramsgate Ferries Ramsgate Harbour Ramsgate Harbour Ramsgate Hired Bands Paperwork 1905/6 Ramsgate Maritime Museum Newsletters Ramsgate Pubs Ramsgate Society Newsletters Ramsgate Tunnels (Air Raid) Ramsgate War Memorials Ramsgate, Historic Record, The - Westgate & Westbrook Residents' Association Reculver Rev Canon Michael Pryor D.D. Richborough, Stonar RNLI Lifeboats Roll of Honour 1939-1945 War Borough of Margate Round the Town magazines. Week by Week. Ramsgate 1946/47 Rowe (Dr Arthur Rowe) Rowlandson, Thomas (Thomas Rowlandson) Royal Sea Bathing Hospital Royalty (National Newspapers on Royalty) Royalty (Top of page) Salmestone Grange Sandwich Sanger, Lord George Schools Sea Bathing (Alan Kay) Sea Bathing and Swimming Sea Forts WWII Seaside Project Laminated Pictures Second Great War WWII Magazines Shallows, The - St Peters Baptist Church Shell Grotto Shipwrecks Show Biz Photographs Sir Moses Montefiore Smuggling Sports People and Clubs St George's Church, Ramsgate St John's Church, Margate St Laurence Church, Ramsgate St Mary's Church, Minster St. John's Cemetery and Burial Board Papers 1910s, 1920s, 1930s St. Peters Village Stirling Castle 1703 Storms Gales Floods Sun Deck Sunbeam Photographs Sunbeam Photos (Birchington, Westgate, Westbrook, Garlinge) Sunbeam Photos (Cliftonville - Newgate Gap, Palm Bay, Foreness, Northdown Rd) Sunbeam Photos (Cliftonville - Winter Gardens, Oval, Lido, St.Georges) Sunbeam Photos (Margate) Sunbeam Photos (Ramsgate) Sunbeams Photos (Broadstairs) Superintendent H Bruce Fleet, Police, CD, RNLI Surfboats, Margate Sydney Harry Fox 1920 (Top of page) TDC Lottery File Thanet Coast Protection Thanet Crimes Thanet District Council Area Development Photographs Thanet Gas Works Thanet Landmarks Thanet Libraries Thanet Politics Thanet Population Figures Thanet Trams - Pictures Thanet Trams 1901-1937 Thanet War Memorial Photographs Thanet's Listed Buildings The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) Theatre Royal Theatre Royal History Theatres Thomas Rowlandson Thomas Russell Crampton, Victorian Engineer of Broadstairs Tillcock (Photographic Collection (Tillcock)) Titanic Disaster 15/04/1912 Tivoli Gardens Tracey Emin, Artist Traditional Holidays - Donkeys - Punch & Judy etc. Traditional Holidays - General - Miscellaneous Trams (Isle of Thanet Light Railway (Trams) Paperwork) Trams (Thanet Trams Pictures & 1901-1937) Transport, Local Triang - Hornby Tudor House Tudor House Pictures Turner Centre Turner J.M.W. Twinning Conflans (Top of page) Victorian Times Viking Ship Hugin Village Pubs Villages (see Local Villages) Votes for Women (Top of page) Wain, Louis (Louis Wain, Cat Artist) Wantsum Channel War Illustrated WWII Magazines War Memorial Photographs War Memorials Ward Locke Directory 1924 Water and Drainage Weather (Storms Gales Floods) Westbrook What's On 1951-55, 57, 59-61, 63 65-67, 69 What's On 1952-53, 57, 64-65, 80 (Bound) What's On 1952-54, 56 (Bound) What's On 1970-1979 What's On 1980-1989 What's On 1990-1997 Windmills Winston Churchill Winter Gardens Winter Gardens History Winter Gardens Programmes 1974-1982 Witchcraft Women at War (WWI WWII) World War II Fire Guard - Mr L C Ettridge, Margate World War II, World War 1 Military Pictures. Mounted/Laminated World War One 1914-1918 World War One Thanet and General World War Two - Battle of Britain World War Two - Dunkirk World War Two - Home Front World War Two World War Two Evacuees World War Two Home Front Book World War Two Thanet and General Writers WRVS Margate WVS, WRVS (Top of page) Youth Events (Photos & Programmes Youth Events Winter Gdns & Lido '50s) Youth Groups (Top of page)