A few pictures of both harbours in the days of sail, which roughly speaking is before WW1
Having read most of the history books about Thanet in the days of sail, I think that Margate probably had a harbour well before Ramsgate.
This is to do with the Wantsum Channel that separated the Isle of Thanet from mainland Kent up until about 1400 and the Port of Sandwich having some viability into the1600s
Here you see the harbour with two lock gates on the cross wall
During the 1700 and 1800s I think the main activities in both harbours would have been fishing boats and importing of coal the main source of energy back then.
A question I get asked quite a bit is, Do you buy books? One answer to this is about 200 a day that said looking at the photos of the books we put out for sale every day we are open is a very good indicator of what we buy
here is the link
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