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Landscape record TR 36 NE 2398 - Victoria Gardens, Broadstairs
Summary
The site has a series of sheltered gardens along the cliff top promenade built during the late-19th-century. The gardens were designed by Joseph Cheal and Sons and include many decorative features including a bandstand, clock tower and Anglo-Indian style shelter.
Location
| Grid reference | Centred TR 3977 6760 (132m by 309m) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | TR36NE |
| County | KENT |
| District | THANET, KENT |
| Civil Parish | BROADSTAIRS AND ST PETERS, THANET, KENT |
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A bandstand is the building most frequently associated with seafront gardens and here it has been moved to a central position overlooking Viking Bay. The clock-tower and shelter, faintly Anglo-Indian in style, is topped with a Viking ship for good measure.
In the wave of patriotic and commemorative fervour at the end of the 19th-century, Broadstairs launched the Victoria Gardens. These are a series of sheltered gardens, some with flowerbeds, others with rockeries, along the promenade of the cliff top seafront. They were designed by J Cheal and Sons, Nurserymen, in 1892.
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Record last edited
Sep 26 2011 12:18PM