Title

Pegwell Bay, Ramsgate, Thanet, Kent, c1945-c1965. Creator: John Pennycuick.

Caption

Pegwell Bay, Ramsgate, Thanet, Kent, c1945-c1965. A general view of Pegwell Bay from the west, showing the Pegwell Village Hotel and Pegwell Inn with the sea in the background. The hotel dates to the mid 19th cenury, and was extended in 1896. It has three storeys and an attic, in two blocks linked with a central tower. The tower has a large jettied belfry with round-headed openings, a dome roof and ball finial. To the right, as the base of the sea wall, is the Pegwell Inn. It was built and altered at the same time as the hotel, with three storeys facing the sea front, and one storeys to the road elevation.

Date

1945

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Reference

HRM21B16_222

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

70,2Mb (3,9Mb) / 20,6in x 13,3in / 6171 x 3976 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors sea coast building buildings England architecture coastal country tower pub British geography public house English cliff cliffs hotel location century bell tower Kent Britain belfry channel B&W 1940s tavern fifties English Channel 1950s Forties Sixties black & white black and white B W 1960s 20th century decade geographical feature Ramsgate TGN outside photograph Isle of Thanet Pegwell Bay Historic England h?tel John Pennycuick Pennycuick John Pegwell Inn Pegwell Village Hotel