Below are some of the artists and creative people I have written about in my book ‘The Bullet Point Book of Margate Coast Art’. These people have either lived, worked or have a connection with Margate, and the near-by towns along the coast. As I say in the book, this is a first edition, and would like to populate it with more people and places for the 2nd, that make the Margate area so creative and special, let me know! bulletpointbooks@zoho.com
- Bleak (Fort) House
- Bleak-House-museum-Broadstairs Kent
- Dickens wife Catherine.
- Charles Dickens died in 1870 aged 58 Higham, Kent, England
- Claude Martin, by Walter Sickert while living in St Peter’s-in-Thanet (Broadstairs
- Dickens House, now a museum in Broadstairs. The original owner was Miss Mary Pearson Strong, model for the character Betsey Trotwood aunt of David Copperfield.
- The shelter where TS Eliot wrote while in Margate. It overlooks Margate Sands and Nayland Rock, and has been given Grade II-listed status.
- Gerardine Hemingway, from Hemmingway designs, who has been working on the re-boot of Dreamland.
- Sir John Betjeman who wrote the poem Margate.
- John Buchan wrote the Thirty Nine Steps.
Sir Edward Heath
Magnet Magazine written by ‘Charles Hamilton’
Beatles at the Winter Gardens Margate
Sir Edward Heath from Broadstairs.
John Betjeman, Candida, her brother Paul, mother Penelope Betjeman, dog is called Peter Pudding. taken around 1948 at Farnborough
The Arlington building near Margate station
Charles Hamilton
- John Buchan, was appointed governor-general of Canada, a post which he held until his death.
- John Keats grave in Italy where he died. According to John’s wishes, daisies were planted on the grave.
- Johns Keats friend Severn, traveled with him to Rome in the hope of John recovering from TB, however he sadly died while there. Severn is buried near to Keats and between them lies Severn’s son Arthur.
- Turner Contemporary Gallery, built on the site where Turner would stay with his friend Mrs Booth.
- The great Stephen Webster and Tracey Emin. Tracey said of Margate – ‘With a provincial town like Margate you might imagine it to have a very little sense of fashion, but it was amazing’.
- Stevie Smith. At the age of five she contracted tubercular peritonitis, and was sent to a children’s convalescent home at Broadstairs
- Stevie Smith, March 1966
- Stock-Aitken-and-Waterman. Mike stock was born in Margate.
- Tracey Emin was given a CBE for services to the arts at Buckingham Palace.
- Tracey as Frieda, photo by Mary McCartney
- Tom Eliot would come to Margate to write poetry, including The Wasteland.
- Drawing of Turner, who loved the light and the sky of Margate.
- Turner Contemporary Gallery, designed by Sir David Chipperfield.
- Turner. Tracey Emin said -‘Turner would often use the Margate sunset whether it was Venice or wherever it was, and still put the Margate sunset in because it was obviously his favourite one’.
- Drawing by Vincent Van Gogh, when he worked and lived in Ramsgate. That view has not changed very much.
- Vincent’s house in Ramsgate. He worked as a Tutor at a boys school across the square from this house.
- Vincent, teacher and painter.
- Walter Sickert lived and worked in St Peter’s near Broadstairs. He would encounter the former PM Edward Heath who also lived there.
- Wayne Hemmingway, bringing Dreamland back to life.
