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Members of "Harry Gold's Margate Entertainers", one in drag, pose for a group portrait. Photographic postcard, 1937.

A physician of Margate, Kent. Oil painting attributed to John Wollaston.

Margate, Kent: a woman swimming in the sea; in the background people are looking out to sea from cliffs and a beach. Coloured etching, ca. 1800.

[Leaflet advertising an appearance by a New Zealand chief at the Tivoli Gardens in Margate. V.R. (Victoria Regina) with a coat of arms is at the head of the woodcut by B. Burns].

Margate, Kent: a woman diving off a bathing wagon in to the sea. Coloured etching, ca. 1800.

Three English conversations about tourist destinations: Paris is praised as a centre of fashion, Margate is deprecated as being a place for the English working classes. Coloured etching by J. Phillips, 1835.

Statistical examination of the Margate death-rate, for the five years, 1863-1867 : by order of the Council of the Borough of Margate / by Edward Mottley.

[Report 1918] / School Medical Officer of Health, Margate Borough.

[Report 1963] / Medical Officer of Health, Margate Borough.

[Report 1962] / Medical Officer of Health, Margate Borough.

[Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Margate Borough.

Report of the committee appointed to conduct the application of the inhabitants of Margate, for a system of police

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Report of the committee appointed to conduct the application of the inhabitants of Margate, for a system of police

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Report of the committee appointed to conduct the application of the inhabitants of Margate, for a system of police

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