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The stink of stale fat drifted out of the station’s cafe, but the posters scattered across the walls told a different story: Mike Leigh’s Mr Turner, set partly in Margate, was showing, as was English Magic, Jeremy Deller’s new exhibition at Turner Contemporary. It’s all about how the light falls in the atrium, about the Tracey Emin tea towels in the gift shop. All around I saw subtle signs of new life, fresh shoots of something cool and interesting quietly gathering momentum. Margate Old Town: Hipster love this long time. It seemed to have only the noblest of intentions, and I found myself rooting for Dreamland and for the fortunes and people of Margate.

Margate is packed with great things to do and places to go. The site, which dates back to Victorian times, has since reopened and is again welcoming visitors, Children at Margate Main Sands tidal pool.
Many people are drawn to the area simply by its romantic bleakness. Long known as a bit of a dishevelled seaside town, the slice of Kent coast is bouncing back, thanks to the reopening of amusement park Dreamland (although this has since been embroiled in controversy) and the birth of an interesting mix of businesses such as Margate Arts Club, natural food store The Grain Grocer, and pop-up restaurant Xiringuito, run by a former Bistrotheque chef. They also commented favourably on the area's bars, pubs, patisseries, coffee shops, restaurants and attractions, Elsewhere, the rusting hulk of the closed-down Dreamland amusement park is seen looming over the town centre - indicating the economic struggles experienced by many local businesses. A faded banner reading “Dreamland Welcomes You” hung on a grim concrete wall below a strangely beautiful, bleak Stalinist towerblock caught in the sun.

Dreamland and Hastings pier are “culture-led regeneration” that really seems like “local pop culture-led regeneration” for once, and it can’t be a coincidence they’ve followed in the contemporary art galleries’ footsteps and that can only be a good thing. If you can, try and get a table at the Company Shed, where you can eat your bodyweight in oysters and prawns. The train pulled into Margate station. It’s not quite the hipster mecca that is Brighton IMHO. His total enthusiasm — “We’re gonna bust a gut to get this place back up and running!” — and his profound understanding that Dreamland was a people’s palace, not another identikit temple to Culture with a capital C, couldn’t help but win you over. Why are all London's hipsters moving to Margate? And while Margate has the signatures of an English seaside resort, like a theme park, sandy beach, amusement arcades, theatres and bingo halls, the town is also arty, young and enchantingly weird. I decided to return to Margate and compare notes, and not for purely anthropological reasons: my vested interest being I’m also one of those displaced East Enders who can no longer make the sums work in the arsehole’s paradise that Boris’s London is fast becoming.

The implications of such questions quickly become paradoxical, ambivalent and complicated. A confusing, kaleidoscopic muddle of heroin addicts in jogging bottoms, feather-in-their-cap bohemians, dilapidation and intriguing hints of arty activity in the shady undergrowth.

I had never even been to Margate before 2013, but there was something about the plan to bring back Dreamland that drew me to the town. Esquire participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites. I’d even seen a compilation from an indie label called Thinking About Moving To Hastings. In all the galleries we’ve inherited from New Labour, it always seems like the content’s almost incidental; an excuse to come and see the spectacle of the gallery. I was looking forward to the Jeremy Deller show but at the entrance I couldn’t work out how to get in. The beach itself is shingle and sand (the pebbles can be slightly painful underfoot) but the atmosphere and attractions are unrivalled. The photos are from a newly-published book called Dreamland, by Danielle Peck, Time for tea at the Marina Cafe, which has long graced Margate's seafront.

Famous for providing the inspirational backdrop for J.M.W.

“So where do we go next? Aside from the beautiful pebble and sand beach, Hastings is home to the largest beach-launched fishing fleet in Europe, the remains of the first castle in England to be built by William the Conqueror and a preserved Old Town.

I didn’t know what I was expecting to find. To buy a one bedroom flat with a garden and sea view will set you back about £160,000. “It felt like a sign,” she says. In Hastings, the Jerwood and the old fishing area around it face each other uncomfortably, on opposite sides of this fault-line. Not only has she bought a home with her husband, the artist Luke Vandenberg, but they’ve established a new business, Margate Arts Club. Next to the rusted, buckled legs of the burned pier, there’s an incredible, mile-long concrete collonade; crumbling, piss-stained, daunting, haunted by smackheads and rough drinkers, known as Bottle Alley. Margate then felt like a brutish, irredeemable place but last summer I’d heard enough positive mentions of it to make me wonder whether this seaside town that had been in free fall for as long as anyone could remember had finally found its bounce: conversations turned on its new “arty” vibe, people moving there, people even calling it “Shoreditch-on-Sea”. I got off to the sound of seagulls squawking, along with a Noddy Holder-haired bloke in white snakeskin cuban-heeled boots, a couple of urchins with a pitbull and an old boy struggling with a walking stick. Published: 16:15, 30 January 2020 | Updated: 17:04, 30 January 2020. http://i.imgur.com/nDtofGB.jpg[Above: Margate's Lido, once a dramatic outdoor pool hugging the sea, now houses a bar and snooker hall.]. He described the skies here as “the loveliest in Europe”, the reason he visited so often (rather than the landlady of a local boarding house he was knocking off). The light was so exquisite, it was a small torture to tear myself away from the view as I neared the station for my train home.

It’s one of the most photographed bays in England, and with good reason too: this hidden gem offers stunning views of white cliffs and natural chalk stacks. I remember the overwhelming sense of desolation when I last visited several years ago: as I got off the train, a young man was screaming and crying in the station, booting the wall hard with a ragged Reebok Classic. ', Taken in the summer of 2013, these photographs show Margate before it experienced a wave of regeneration. Moving to the seaside helped freelance copywriter Clare Freeman fulfil her dreams of starting her own magazine, Margate Mercury, and buying her own place. Where I grew up in England’s North East, Baltic — a similarly colossal shed with no permanent collection — occupies the same role at the heart of the leisure/culture infrastructure of Newcastle, and has provided the vital catalyst for the trendy metropolitan classes to reclaim the decayed industrial heart of the city. But something felt different about Margate this time. In the summer of 2013, when these images were taken, Margate was on the verge of transformation. http://i.imgur.com/J0mOlja.jpg[Above: The view of the town from Margate jetty.]. But my hopeful, generous-hearted side that feels unexpectedly moved by Dreamland or the Hastings pier charity, by the voluntary staff who care about their towns becoming better, says the knock-on effect of these Big White Boxes seems to be the re-awakening of the old slumbering spirit that made these resorts special in the first place. We emerged at the thrilling, end-of-the-world spectacle of hyper-capitalism tumouring along the soured floodplains of the Thames Estuary, bleached concrete flyovers arching past colossal wind turbines and monstrous oil tanks rising from the soggy marshland. In Margate, rent and house prices are lower, and there’s support from everyone.”, As for myself, as a huge fan of outdoor swimming, I’m massively excited by the prospect of having Margate’s tidal pool on my doorstep. But times were changing, with the Turner Contemporary art gallery opening just two years earlier, building on a local artistic heritage pioneered by JMW Turner.
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