oh yes and the walk

Well I did mention a Turner Dickens Walk

The walk is well sign-posted 

Here it is..

A walk - the route had TD signs too

Quart in a Pint Pot.

The map tells us to look out for the interesting architecture of a pub - here it is

Quart in a Pint Pot Pub

Turner Mosaics

Near the pub are some Turner influenced  mosaics

One of the mosaics - inspired by one of J M Turners seascapes perhaps 

The Windmill

Draper's Windmill

Definitely struck lucky when we got to Draper's Windmill which was having an 'open Day' we got there before the action began and one of the volunteers gave us a lovely little tour, explaining how it all worked and the background to the restoration.



Sadly few windmills now in Kent and the school where one of the leading lights of the project was headmaster is now an 'Academy ' and apparently not really that interested in making the most of this valuable (educational) resource

St Peter in Thanet Church

After quite a walk (parallel to the railway line) and at the end of many graves we eventually arrived at this church, St Peter in Thanet - there's been a church here since 1128.

St Peter in Thanet- a big old graveyard too 

One of the Dickens scenes in mosaic form 

Dickens Mosaic

Just across the road there are Mosaics depicting scenes from Dickens' novels by Martin Cheek

You can find out more about the mosaics here.

Crampton Tower

Crampton Tower Museum 

In Broadstairs near the railway station there's a museum in what was Crampton Tower.

Thomas Crampton,  was an English engineer born at Broadstairs, Kent, and trained on Brunel's Great Western Railway he was born 6 August 1816 and died  19 April 1888.

 Crampton was the designer of  the Crampton locomotive and  many engineering interests including the electric telegraph and  Channel Tunnel for which he designed a boring machine.

Strangely his locomotives had much better success in France, Germany and Italy than they did in the UK.

The Dickens House Museum 

Dickens House

At the end of the walk by the beach we saw the Dickens House Museum (but only from the outside), in fact we'd seen his birthplace in Portsmouth a couple of years ago, seems history around Dickens is a bit of a money earner - then we caught the bus back to Margate.

Broadstair- The end of the walk and back on The Loop