An historic clock
The Southern Railway rationalised the railway system in Thanet in the 1920's. This included rebuilding Margate station. They gave it an impressive entrance hall with a nice clock inside above the platform entrance. If you look carefully at the clock itself you can see it is marked 'S.E.R.' - that is South Eastern Railway. Thus it is therefore pre-1899, this being the year the SER was forced to semi merge with its deadly rival, the London Chatham and Dover, becoming the South Eastern and Chatham.
An historic clock
The Southern Railway rationalised the railway system in Thanet in the 1920's. This included rebuilding Margate station. They gave it an impressive entrance hall with a nice clock inside above the platform entrance. If you look carefully at the clock itself you can see it is marked 'S.E.R.' - that is South Eastern Railway. Thus it is therefore pre-1899, this being the year the SER was forced to semi merge with its deadly rival, the London Chatham and Dover, becoming the South Eastern and Chatham.