Margate... the new Brighton?
Jul 11, 2019
3 minutes
‘The old town is packed with vintage shops and artists’ studios’
“I love it more than all the world and Margate,” is an exclamation often used by an effusive friend, who adopted the phrase from a TV comedy from way back. It has always rather tickled me. But why Margate?
‘Cool’, ‘hipster’, ‘Shoreditch-on-Sea’ and even ‘the new Brighton’ are all recent descriptions in the press of this former popular holiday resort, which was very much down-at-heel only a decade ago.
As a one-time resident of Brighton,
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