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The town lies above a harbour, historically known for smuggling. More recently, Charles Dickens was a frequent visitor and the house, now called Bleak House, in which he wrote David Copperfield can be visited. Legend has it that if you leave a note for Dickens in the top drawer of the writing desk in what used to be his study, he will come during the night to read it. During the summer, letters to Dickens can be found there from all over the world. But they are always gone by the morning . . .
Broadstairs is a popular resort for holidays and day trippers; it is near Dover and Canterbury, and within an hour's drive of the M25, London's orbital motorway.
Broadstairs has seven beautiful bays of golden sand, the main one Viking Bay, which has won many awards, including the European Blue Flag. The others include Louisa Bay, Dumpton Gap, Botany Bay, Stone Bay and Joss Bay. People comment that Broadstairs has changed very little over the past century, an asset that brings visitors back time and again. The town's wealth of history makes it a popular summer destination.
Broadstairs has a small cinema in Harbour Street and a fine venue nearby called the Pavilion on the Sands, which hosts a summer show as well as all-year entertainment, and which offers an extensive view across the bay.
The town's water gala in August has been a part of the summer calendar for more than 117 years. There is also a Dickens festival each June and a folk festival and craft fair every August.
As a child, Queen Victoria spent many summers in Broadstairs staying at Pierremont Hall.
Former Conservative leader and Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath and the engineer Thomas Russell Crampton were born in Broadstairs.
Charles Dickens frequently holidayed there.Oliver Postgate, creator of the children's TV puppet shows, the Clangers and Bagpuss, is reported to be living there.
Reference to the Culmer family is found in the pages of a Thanet history book, Mockett's Journal (1836) by John Mockett (1775~1848). Mention is made by Mockett of the will of a Richard Culmer, a carpenter in 1434. Shortly thereafter, in 1440, an archway was built by George Culmer across a track leading down to the sea, where the first wooden pier or jetty was built in 1460. A more enduring structure was to replace this in 1538.
The Culmers nestled their boatyard on these protected sands. It was in 1538 that the road leading to the seafront, known as Harbour Street, was cut into the rough chalk ground Broadstairs is built upon. This was accomplished by the local shipwright George Culmer. Going further in defence of the town, he built the York Gate in 1540, a portal that still spans Harbour Street, and which then held two heavy wooden doors that could be closed in times of threat from the sea. By 1795, York Gate needed repair to repel any threat from the French Revolutionary Wars; the subsequent renovation was undertaken by Lord Hanniker in the same year as the first lightship was placed on the Goodwin Sands.
A brief outline of the history of Broadstairs Pier is given in Broadstairs, past and present, which mentions a storm in 1767, during which Culmer's work was all but destroyed. At this time it was of considerable importance to the fishing trade with catches as far afield as YarmouthYarmouth may refer to more than one place: In Canada: Yarmouth, Nova Scotia In England: Great Yarmouth, Norfolk Yarmouth, Isle of Wight In the United States: Yarmouth, Maine Yarmouth, Massachusetts South Yarmouth, Massachusetts West Yarmouth, Massachusett, HastingsThis is about Hastings in England. There are other uses of the name Hastings Hastings is a town in southeastern England, in the county of East Sussex. Population (2000) about 84,000. Now known as a seaside resort and education centre (Hastings College and, FolkestoneFolkestone is a coastal resort town in the Shepway district of Kent, England. Hovercraft and ferry services formerly connected the town to both Boulogne and Calais in France, together with the still present Channel Tunnel. Satellite towns include Capel-Le, DoverThis article is about the English port. For other uses see Dover (disambiguation). Dover is a major channel port in the English county of Kent. In 1991 it had a population of 34,200. The surrounding Dover district has a population of 104,688. It is the cl and TorbayTorbay is an east facing bay at the eastern most end of Lyme Bay in the south west of England. Historically part of the county of Devon, situated in the south, Torbay was made a unitary authority on April 1, 1998. There are three main towns around the bay and elsewhere being landed. It had become so indispensable that the Corporations of Yarmouth, Dover, Hythe and Canterbury with assistance from the East India CompanyThe British East India Company popularly known as John Company was founded by a Royal Charter of Queen Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600. Over the next 250 years, it became one of the most powerful commercial enterprises of its time. The British East India and Trinity HouseTrinity House or, more correctly, the Corporation of Trinity House came into being in 1514 by Royal Charter granted by Henry VIII. The Master of the Corporation is the Duke of Edinburgh Trinity House has three main functions: The care of all lighthouses i subscribed to its restoration with a payment of £2,000/~ in 1774.
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