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The Isle-of-Thanet & Academy FM (Thanet)

This copy free feature begins in Margate, a seaside holiday resort since 1805 boasting numerous guest houses, pleasant sea bathing & the Dreamland Pleasure Park that featured in a number of TV programmes including 'Only Fools & Horses'

The Park (still closed at date of publication) houses the remnants of the worlds oldest wooden Roller Coaster (Scenic Railway) The Dreamland Trust hopes to reopen the venue as a Heritage Amusement Park

1. Margate from the promenade at Westgate-on-Sea

2. Margate Harbour Wall (Pier)

3. Margate Harbour from an undated old postcard

Showing a mixture of commercial, fishing & leisure craft

5. Margate Pier (Jetty) in the late 1950's with MS Queen of the Channel leaving

Pleasure steamers called on the way round the coast picking up trippers at Southend, Herne Bay, Margate & Deal Piers before setting across the English Channel to Calais

6. Margate Pier & Harbour Company 1912 building is now Margate's Tourist Information Office

Representing the last remaining vestage of the old Margate Pier Company. The Jetty Pier closed in a dangerous condition in 1976 & succumbed to a major storm in 1978, despite resistance to dynamite it was subsequently demolished

Margate Pier : Pier 1978 : Kent Piers

7. Turner Contemporary viewed from the 900' Harbour Wall (Pier)

Built at a cost of £60,000 it replaced the 1789 Harbour Wall (Pier) was damaged in a storm in 1808, salvageable material from the old structure, stone washed into the sea from St Mary's Church at Reculver & new stone from Whitby were used in re-construction

8. The Giant Shell Lady

Sitting at the end of the Harbour Wall (Pier) The Giant Shell Lady was commissioned by Margate Renewal Partnership & was created by Ann Carrington in 2008

9. Turner Contempory with the Margate RNLI Lifeboat Station left

The RNLI had until 1976 maintained a station on the Pier (Jetty)

10. Pay & Display Parking on the Harbour Wall (Pier)

11. Turner Contempory

Opened in April 2011 Turner Contemporary was designed by David Chipperfield & cost £17.5 million

Built on the site where landscape artist JMW Turner studied the interplay of light & sea, it's difficult if not impossible to find an attractive angle to photograph the building

12. Margate Pier & Harbour Company building from the Harbour Wall (Pier)

13 & 14. Rodin's Rock - 'The Kiss'

The life sized sculpture will be on display in the Sunley Gallery at Turner Contempory between 4th October 20011 - 2nd September 2012

15. View from Turner Contempory first floor gallery

Unprocessed raw image shows the buoy marking the remains of the old Jetty Pier Head

16. Margate Lighthouse

The second 100' Lighthouse constructed at the end of the Harbour Wall (Pier) was designed by William Edmunds cost £800 to build in 1828

17. Margate Harbour

No longer a commercial harbour but pop into Margate Harbour Arm or ...

18. .. The Lighthouse

19. Margate sea front

20. Right, Imperial House

The building was saved from ruin by Ken Wills owner of Summit Aviation & Chairman of TLR (Thanet Local Radio) several broadcasts were made from Imperial House which has its own heli-pad but failed to gain safety certification

21. Academy Radio FM (Thanet)

An integral part of the Marlowe Academy based in Sterling Way, Ramsgate Academy FM (Thanet) is supported by the Chairman Roger De Haan's Charitable Trust

Roger wanted a Community Radio Station to form part of the academy campus, the Trust supports a similar operation Academy FM (Folkestone)