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MCS Newsletter Margate Civic Society Spring 2010 (Founded 1968) Newsletter Registered Charity No. 257884 Issue No. 358 It seems increasingly unlikely that Margate Museum will re-open its doors in the foreseeable future. The desperate Launch of Civic Voice need to cut public spending in order to reduce the national debt will inevitably result in significant cuts in staffing A new national body for the civic movement is due to levels across council services. It had been hoped that the be launched in London on Saturday, 17th April: the name opening of the new Turner Contemporary gallery next year of the new body is Civic Voice. Civic Societies might have prompted Thanet District Council to seek to throughout the country have been asked to join this new re-open Margate Museum at the same time for the benefit movement. Your Committee supports the aims of Civic of those visitors to Margate - which we are assured the new Voice but has yet to decide whether to join this new body gallery will attract - to learn something of the rich history as there is concern about the cost to the our Society of of our town. When one considers the revenue costs of joining which is £1.50 a member. With around 300 running the new gallery, the costs of running the museum members, it would cost our Society around £450 in the would be insignificant by comparison. first year with the likelihood of higher costs in future Our Newsletter continues to attract interesting years. If the Society were to join Civic Voice for more contributions. In this issue, Barrie Smith - a former than one year, it would be necessary to increase our successful international racing driver who grew up in subscription rates by at least £1.50 simply to meet the Westgate-on-Sea - follows up his article in the last issue on annual cost of this membership alone. Such an increase Pav’s Cafe with an article on Jackson’s Stables/Cheshire’s would result in a rise in subscription rates from £6.00 to Garage. Also, Robin Fleet follows up his article on £7.50 (25% increase) for individual membership and from Margate’s Victorian letter-boxes with an article on the £10.00 to £13.00 (30% increase) for joint membership.□ town’s Edwardian letter-boxes. Readers might notice some presentational changes in this Tracey Emin art work issue of the Newsletter. After struggling to produce the Newsletter in Microsoft Word using Vista on my computer, on display in Margate I decided - after finishing the last issue - to purchase a Do look out for Tracey Emin’s latest art work which will desk-top publishing package. This issue of the Newsletter be on display at Droit House from April and will remain in therefore is, in many ways, something of a guinea-pig. place until the new Turner Contemporary gallery is opened Certainly, the software package provides the flexibility in next year. The art work is a neon installation with the words: laying out the text and pictures that I was seeking but I am “I never stopped loving you” written in pink lights. It is a long way off mastering most of its features. Consequently, understood that Tracey Emin will stage a one-woman I ask your forbearance should there be technical glitches in exhibition of her work at the gallery in the autumn of its its presentation which have manifested without my opening year. Tracey Emin’s love of Margate is well known knowledge. The placing of back-issues of the Newsletter and the exhibition of her work in the town should attract as PDF files on the Society’s website is attracting interest visitors and contribute greatly to the success of the new both in the Society’s activities and in the town itself. Turner Contemporary gallery. □ Indeed, only recently has an enquiry been received from an associate professor at the School of Architecture at Lund University in Sweden who wrote regarding nominations for this year’s Town Pride Awards and who was looking to visit This year’s Heritage Open House Days will take place on our town at the end of March. It is good to know that the Thursday, 9th September; Friday, 10th September; Newsletter is attracting readers from so far afield. □ Saturday, 11th September; and Sunday, 12th September. Do make a note in your diary of these dates. It is hoped that full details of the local places participating this year, and the hours of opening, will be contained in the next issue of the Newsletter. The year 2010 marks the centenary of Shottendane, the former home of Dr Arthur Rowe and now Shottendane Joanna Brown Nursing Home. Shottendane was designed by the celebrated Robin Fleet Arts & Crafts architect Hugh Thackeray Turner and the Mark & Julie Glanfield house has been featured in the Newsletter on a number of David & Evelyn Smith occasions. The grounds of Shottendane will again be open Derek Wilson to the public on at least one of Heritage Open Days but, regrettably, because the building is a nursing home there will be no public access to the inside of the building. □ This year, the Society received eight nominations for Town Pride Awards. All of the properties nominated for the 2010 Town Pride Awards are shown below: Bridge Court, Westgate Pavilion, 71 Sea Road, St Mildred’s Road, Westgate-on-Sea Westgate-on-Sea Westgate-on-Sea (Refurbishment) (Replacement of balconies, (Conversion of former Bridge Hotel windows, etc) to apartments) Town Hall Buildings, St Augustine’s Park, West Gate, St Mildred’s Road, Westgate-on-Sea Sea Road/St Mildred’s Road, Westgate-on-Sea (New development) Westgate-on-Sea (Refurbishment) (New development) Flats 1-14, 52 Northdown Road, Cliftonville (Conversion of former commercial 2 Fort Crescent, premises to apartments) Cliftonville (Repainting of exterior) The results of the judging for the Society’s 2010 Town Pride Awards will be announced at our meeting on Thursday, 6th May 2010 when presentations of the Awards will be made to the winners. □ 2 King Edward VII reigned from 1901 to 1910. EVIIR wall boxes are to be seen at the following locations During this period the network of postal in Margate: collection boxes, which had been started in the Ÿ Byron Avenue: Type B (33" x time of Queen Victoria, continued to expand. 13") Nationwide, about 2,500 pillar boxes exist from Ÿ Tivoli Road: Type C (28" x 10") this period. The boxes usually have a scrolled royal cipher Ÿ Canterbury Road junction with EVIIR (see illustration). These are easy to distinguish from George Park, Westbrook: Type B the very rare boxes dating from the brief reign of his Ÿ Wilderness Hill junction with grandson Edward VIII. These have the cipher EVIIIR in a Dane Road: Type B very simple form. (The only two Ÿ Cowley Rise (outside examples of these in Thanet are in Domingo’s Stores), Dane Valley: Callis Court Road, Broadstairs and Type C in Harbour Parade, Ramsgate.) All of these were manufactured The oldest Edwardian pillar box by the firm of W T Allen & Co of in Margate stands at the junction London. The earlier examples of of Surrey Road and Eastern Type B, pre-1904, had a plain Esplanade, in Cliftonville. It was EVIIR cipher in Roman Capitals manufactured by the firm of under a crown. One of these can EVIIR wall box near junction Andrew Handyside & Co of Derby be seen at Byron Avenue. The of Canterbury Road and some time before 1905. In that Canterbury Road and Wilderness George Park, near north year, it was decided to enlarge the Hill boxes have a scrolled cipher. end of Waverley Road size of the door to prevent mail The smaller Type C boxes did not from becoming trapped at the top have enough room for a scrolled cipher, so retained the plain of the box. Prior to 1905, the top cipher. The Cowley Rise box is even later and has a plain of the door was below the posting cipher, but with added serifs; the crown has also changed to EVIIR pillar box at aperture. The new boxes extended an Imperial Crown. junction of Surrey Road the door upwards to include the The only Edwardian lamp box in and Eastern Esplanade aperture. At the same time the our area, manufactured by posting aperture was widened Handyside, is to be horizontally, but soon narrowed vertically to keep out seen at Downbarton “thieving little hands”! The words “Post Office” were Road, St Nicholas- moved from either side of the aperture to the area below the at-Wade. This is an royal cipher. The contract was at this time transferred to a attractive little box new firm – McDowall, Steven & Co of London & Glasgow, with a scrolled who continued to make boxes up to 1957. The maker’s cipher. Although name can usually be seen in the black-painted area at the designed to be base of a box. fixed onto a lamp- Boxes of this new type can be seen post, this one is at the following places: built into a brick Ÿ Minnis Bay (ex-sub post office, wall. It can easily now Village Stores) be distinguished Ÿ EVIIR lamp box at Adrian Square, Westgate Downbarton Road, from a wall box by Ÿ Design for Foreland Avenue junction with St Nicholas-at-Wade its rounded top. Most EVIIR lamp box Holly Lane, Cliftonville of the old lamp boxes Ÿ Cecil Square have sadly been replaced by rather uninteresting modern Ÿ Marine Terrace, outside Dreamland ones. The only other remaining Edwardian one in Thanet These last two boxes, known as Type is at Stonelees, visible from the Ramsgate to Sandwich A, are of a larger type than the others.
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