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Margate Beach

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About Margate Beach

Margate is a seaside town in the Thanet District of Kent, England. It is located on the north coast of Kent and covers an area of 2 miles long, 16 miles north-east of Canterbury and includes Cliftonville, Garlinge, Palm Bay and Westbrook. In 2011 it had a population of 61,223.

On the show4 mentions total

In The Wasteland, there's only one moment where you see through the eyes of T.S. Eliot — he's sitting in a spot looking up — and that's by a bus stop down on Margate Beach, as he was there using the sanatorium to recover.

from No Such Thing As Dudley And The Dippers, 2025-02-20 at 00:47:53 · read transcript

Other times Margate Beach came up

  1. I've never worn a string vest. You would've made me. You can't believe it. No, no, no. I can only imagine you, on your Christmas holidays, going down to Margate Beach with a hanker-chef out your head. I go home, I climb up into the computer tower. I take my clothes, I get my string vest on. Weirdly, even though women were uncovering their boobies, they were covering their faces at this time.

    514: No Such Thing As A Computer Tower, 2024-01-18 · listen

  2. I've never worn a string vest. You've amazed me. I can't believe it, Andy. I can only imagine you on your Christmas holidays going down to Margate Beach with a handkerchief around your head. I go home, I climb off into the computer tower. I take my clothes, I get my string vest on. weirdly, even though women were uncovering their boobies, they were covering their faces at this time.

    No Such Thing As A Computer Tower, 2024-01-18 · listen

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Coordinates: 51.3850, 1.3838

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