Title

Bleak House, Fort Road, Broadstairs, Kent, 1890-1910

Caption

Bleak House, Fort Road, Broadstairs, Kent, 1890-1910. A view of Bleak House on the cliffs at Broadstairs taken from Viking Bay with beached boats on the sands. The house was originally built as a fort in the 1790s before becoming the seaside home of Charles Dickens in the early 19th century.

Date

1890

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19A81_206

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

53,6Mb (2,5Mb) / 17,3in x 12,0in / 5193 x 3606 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation road building buildings England fort house beach street sailing boat boat boats sand harbour trade port tide geography castle mud lane avenue cliff cliffs fortification location sailboat century Kent low tide battlements natural phenomena B&W MONOCHROME 19th century water transport black & white black and white B W 18th century 1900s 20th century Eighteenth Century nineteenth century English Heritage Bleak House Broadstairs Fort road geographical feature TGN Charles photograph landscape Unknown Charles Dickens Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens Charles John Huffam Boz Charles Dickens photograph landscape