Margate Soul Festival
This weekend sees “Kents signature Soul Music Festival and the biggest event to hit Margate since Dreamland”, the Margate Soul Festival, also known as Margate Soul Weekend – now in its tenth year. Our neighbouring town comes to soulful life with dancing in the streets and bars and on the beach. The event takes place […]
Tags: margatesoul festivalsoul weekendDreamland steps up a gear for 2017
We know how many of our visitors remember the old Dreamland at Margate and many of you have visited the park since it reopened in 2015. The initial phase 1 of the redevelopment of the park was a big deal for the area but it was only the start. Now in 2017 phase 2 is […]
Tags: Art Deco CinemaDreamlandGorillazinvestmentphase 2SlavesTeddy and BettyDreamland special events
Margate’s iconic Dreamland amusement park reopened last year and immediately started to attract increased visitor numbers to the town and the wider area. Margate beach is once more packed out in the summer and the higher footfall for the town as a whole has helped lots of new businesses get established, particularly around the seafront […]
Tags: Beside the SeaDreamlandScreamlandspecial eventsVintage MarketXiringuito – don’t miss this!
Margate has become a veritable hotbed of trendiness in recent years. It is fair to say that it has now, properly, well and truly, up and come. And the rise continues with exciting new openings and events being announced seemingly every week. Xiringuito stands out as something extra special even in the sea of arty unique-ness […]
Tags: Dreamlandfoodie kentkent foodielocal producemargate pop upxiringuitoThe Old Kent Market – new on Margate seafront
Last weekend The Old Kent Market opened, opposite the Turner Contemporary in Margate. After many months of loving restoration the building, which has previously been a music hall, a cinema, a snooker hall and for many years basically derelict, now makes a striking new contribution to the seafront, with it’s bold red frontage and intriguing exterior artwork but what’s […]
Tags: bakerycraft aleFoodfood shoppingfresh fishlocal alesmargatemarketshoppingSmugglers RecordsThe Old Kent Market