Broadstairs Food Festival 2017
Twice a year since 2009 Broadstairs Food Festival takes place in Spring and Autumn. Both events seem to grow and get better every time so we are currently in a state of excited anticipation for the next one which takes place Friday 29th September till Sunday 1st October 2017. We are counting the days! Festival […]
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A trot down Broadstairs traditional High Street is always a pleasant shopping experience and the additional shopping streets,in town: The Broadway, Albion Street, Harbour Street, Charlotte Street and York Street, make the central Broadstairs area a diverse and vibrant shopping hub. The neighbouring Towns of Ramsgate and Margate, which both have many new independent […]
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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 MarketBroadstairs Food Festival 2016
One of the major annual events in our lovely town is the Broadstairs Food Festival, which takes place each autumn in Victoria Gardens overlooking Viking Bay. This year the Festival is on from 30th September to 2nd October. The Festival site is a lovely spot, with fresh sea breezes wafting aromatic scents of tasty Kentish produce across the […]
Tags: AlbarinoBroadstairs Food FestivalCatherine PhippsCheeseKentish ProduceKentish WinesThe 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 […]
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