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Whitstable Harbour
& foreshore through the years
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Issue: 12 Date: 14th January 2023
Whitstable Harbour, foreshore, scenes & working vessels our photographs & archives, historic photographs & old postcards
We plan to add more photographs and facts to this feature as they become available
The Old Harbour Whitstable (1800's)
Coke Oven, Chimney's and Harbour Masters House (1845-1880)
Coke was used to power the locomotives on the 'Crab & Winkle' Canterbury & Whitstable Railway
Harbour Whitstable showing Railway Tracks (1830's)
Harbour Whitstable Basin (1830's)
The Schooner 'Zabrina' built in Whitstable in 1873
Reeves Beach (1880's)
Horsebridge (1880's)
Harbour Basin (1880's)
Oyster Fleet, Whitstable (1880's)
Old North Quay Head & East Quay (1890)
East Quay (1890)
Old North Head & East Quay Whitstable Harbour (1890's)
Titled - Ludgate Hill, Whitstable (1890's)
Harbour & Sea Street from Ludgate Hill, West Harbour Gate note the embankment
Alternative image - Ludgate Hill, Whitstable (1890's)
Ludgate Hill, Harbour & Sea Street (1880's)
Harbour Basin (1890's)
Whitstable Harbour (1890's)
Harbour & Beach House (1901)
Stone House (1900's)
With Reeves Beach beyond
Whitstable the Bay (1900's)
In older postcards often referred to as Tankerton Beach, this photograph from the exit from the Shrubbery by Tower Tea Garden and the Bubble Cafe is more in Whitstable than Tankerton which
Barges off the Horsebridge (1900's)
On The Swale (1900's)
The Harbour (1900's)
Whitstable Harbour work horses (1900's)
Whitstable Harbour 'Jumping Horse' (used 1870's - 1928)
The wooden five step 'Jumps' had two men on ropes that 'jumped' off the 'Jumping Horse' backwards lifting coal baskets from barge holds to the deck, the process was repeated to load the coal onto the railway trucks
Harbour Basin (1900's)
SB May enters Whitstable Harbour Basin (1900's)
SB May was built in Harwich in 1891 by Cann, John & Herbert for the Canfield Brothers, Flour Millers of Ipswich
She was sold in 1964 to Silvertown Services Lighterage Ltd a subsidiary of Tate & Lyle she went into private hands in 2011
Unloading Barges at Horsebridge (1900)
Titled - 'Evening' Whitstable Harbour (1900's)
Long Beach and foreshore from sea
Titled - 'A Sunset, Whitstable (1900's)
The Beach Whitstable (1904)
Long Beach
Whitstable Coast Guard Station (1905)
Marine Terrace ahead, today behind the fence the Tennis Courts
11th October 2021 - Cornelius George Stratford was stationed at Whitstable Coast Guard Station with his wife Ellem his great grandson Ray Duffy has a photo of his relative with several other Coast Guard men taken outside the Coast Guard buildings at Ramsgate. I can ask him if he would be happy to send a copy through if you think it may be of interest to local genealogists etc (unfortunately no names appended other than George’s). Also one of George’s two daughters was born in Blean in 1901 whilst George was serving at Whitstable (maybe living in Coastguard cottages at Swalecliffe??). Ray is a native of Kent himself, now residing in Ramsgate, after serving 22 years in the Royal Navy.- Barry Riley
Whitstable Whelkers - Charlie West, Bill 'Fiddle' West, 'Darkie' West, Bob Bishop, William West, Charlie Carlton & Harry Day (1905)
With fishing in decline in Sherringham, Norfolk the West & Bishop family moved to Whitstable
Whitstable Harbour (1905)
Evening Off Whitstable (1905)
Whitstable Harbour Postcard (Approx' 1906)
Reprinted a number of times from by P.P Co No 1278
Whitstable Harbour, reprint (1906)
The Beach, Whitstable (1906)
Taken below Tower Gardens by today's Continental Hotel
The Old Harbour Light (1900's)
Reeves Beach (1900's)
Barges in rough seas off Whitstable (1906)
Fishing Off Whitstable (1907)
Harbour & Sea Street (1908)
Taken from Ludgate Hill West Harbour Gate opposite Starvation Point
Note embankment path
Beach Whitstable (1900's)
Harbour ship masts, Old Neptune Pub, houses on Marine Terrace with rear gardens, bathing tents, partial seawall
West Beach (1908)
Whitstable Natives Cooling Themselves (1900's)
Coast Guard Station (1909)
Central Beach Postcard (1900's)
By Royal Native Oyster Stores, Reeves Beach beyond
Marine Terrace (1910)
Alternative image - Marine Terrace (1910)
Whitstable, The Docks (1911)
Alternative image - Whitstable, The Docks (1911)
Whitstable Harbour with SB 'Why Not' (1912)
Middle Wall (1912)
The Hoy 'Herbert' scrapped in 1913
Her timbers were used to construct the Whitstable Hoy Trading Company Pier see 1920's & 1950's
The Beach Whitstable (1913)
Barges and tenders at the Horsebridge
Alternative image - The Beach Whitstable (1913)
Alternative image - The Beach Whitstable (1913)
Appears again below dated 1915
Coast Guard Station (1913)
Coast Guard Station (1913)
Marine Terrace (1913)
Horsebridge (1915)
Bathing at Reeves Beach (1916)
Beach between Reeves Beach & Old Neptune (1919)
Harbour (1919)
Fisherman's Quarters, Whitstable (1920's)
Area between the Old Neptune Pub & Royal Native Oyster Stores
Schooner off the East Quay Head (1920's)
West Beach, Whitstable (1920's)
Reeves Beach (1921)
Appears again later as 1925
Horsebridge Beach (1920's)
Oyster Fleet, Evening Whitstable (1920's)
Old West Quay with crane & Daniel Brothers Barge No1470 (1920)
A new crane was put up in 1984 using the same concrete base
William West & Granddaughter Aileen at Whitstable Harbour (1920)
Harbour Street & Sea Street (1920's)
Taken from Ludgate Hill West Harbour Gate opposite Starvation Point
Railway Tavern & Harbour Street (1920's)
The Street (1921)
Alternative image - The Street (1921)
Old North Quay Head & East Quay (1920's)
Reeves Beach (1920's)
Marine Terrace (1920's)
The Beach Whitstable (1922)
Alternative image - The Beach Whitstable (1922)
Alternative image - The Beach Whitstable (1922)
Above three images showing Wave Crest, The Old Neptune Pub, Hoy Pier, Royal Native Oyster Stores and Harbour
The Beach Whitstable (1920's)
Petal Cafe on East Beach Walk, on the beach for Teas and Ices the 194 Cafe
Reeves Beach (1925)
A Glimpse of Whitstable (Reeves Beach) (1925)
Neptune & Marine Terrace (1925)
West Beach looking West (1920's)
Evening Low Tide, Whitstable (1926)
Off To The Oyster Beds, Whitstable (1920's)
Nor' Wester (1928)
Harbour Entrance (1929)
Alternative Image - Whitstable Harbour Entrance (1929)
Tankerton from Whitstable Pier (East Quay End) (1929)
From a painting by AR Quinton
Aerial view of Hoy Pier (late 1920's)
Hoy Pier (late 1920's)
Harbour Pier (West Quay) (1929)
Harbour Head (East Quay Head) (1929)
Old Hoy Pier (1930)
Built from the timbers of the hoy 'Herbert' in 1913 the Whitstable Hoy Trading Company Pier was demolished in 1956
See Hoy Pier later in 1950's
Long Beach once known as Tankerton Beach (1930's)
F176' Gamecock' painting by unknown artist (1930's)
Old Postcard of the old 'Stag Inn' (1931)
The 'Stag Inn' now 'Stag Cottage' dates from the mid 1800's and has been a subject of much controversy, next to the Royal Native Oyster Stores have divided the dwelling in two as rows continue over ownership
Flint & Co' Brewery was founded in 1797 in St Dunstan's Canterbury opposite the Church
Children brave rough seas by the 'Old Neptune' pub (1930's)
The Royal Native Oyster Stores (1932)
Alternative Image - The Royal Native Oyster Stores (1932)
The Beach, Whitstable (1932)
Barge at Horsebridge
Whitstable Horsebridge 'Evening Shadows' (1930's)
Oyster Boats at Sunset (1930's)
Alternative postcard - Oyster Boats at Sunset (1933)
Alternative postcard - Oyster Boats at Sunset (1930's)
Three different editions of the same postcard available through the 1930's
Sunset Whitstable (1933)
Whitstable Harbour (1934)
The Street (1934)
Avra Anson #K6166 from 48 Squadron at the Horsebridge (25th June 1936)
The military aircraft flying North out of RAF Manston the aircraft suffered engine failure switching over from the main fuel tanks to the emergency tanks and was successfully ditched by Pilot Officer A.R. Atkins, from the School of Air Navigation at Manston about 6 miles off Whitstable coast. Towed back to Tankerton in the afternoon, and then the Horsebridge ended up being written-off
Harbour with Rolling Stock on East Quay (1936)
The Harbour Whitstable (1937)
Pictured on the East Quay the 400 ton collier 'Actuosity' owned by Frank T Everard & Sons
Described as Tankerton Sunset on the Harbour (1930's)
T.S 'Vigilant' by the Old Neptune (1930's)