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Selected items from a religious collection at Artifacts.

A lovely trip to Margate.

After visiting a photography exhibit at Turner Contemporary, I was inspired. So I walked along the promenade and captured Margate's ratty, rusty and redundant life.

With the breathtaking views and fun things to do, we often miss the dilapidation and the wastefulness of the things that are no longer useful to us.

The Shell Grotto, Margate, Kent

Tom Swift and Paul Hazelton's discovery of a box at the Shell Grotto, Margate; with an effigy of a figure holding a sacred duck totem

 

in Gyllyngdune Gardens

A lovely trip to Margate.

After visiting a photography exhibit at Turner Contemporary, I was inspired. So I walked along the promenade and captured Margate's ratty, rusty and redundant life.

With the breathtaking views and fun things to do, we often miss the dilapidation and the wastefulness of the things that are no longer useful to us.

4.6MILLION SHELLS, 70FT OF WINDING UNDERGROUND PASSAGES LEADING TO A RECTANGULAR CHAMBER, 2000SQFT OF MOSAIC AND ONE BIG MYSTERY!

Shell Grotto in, or should we say, under Margate. www.shellgrotto.co.uk/

This was discovered in the 1850s but no-one knows how old it is

A lovely trip to Margate.

After visiting a photography exhibit at Turner Contemporary, I was inspired. So I walked along the promenade and captured Margate's ratty, rusty and redundant life.

With the breathtaking views and fun things to do, we often miss the dilapidation and the wastefulness of the things that are no longer useful to us.

4.6MILLION SHELLS, 70FT OF WINDING UNDERGROUND PASSAGES LEADING TO A RECTANGULAR CHAMBER, 2000SQFT OF MOSAIC AND ONE BIG MYSTERY!

A lovely trip to Margate.

After visiting a photography exhibit at Turner Contemporary, I was inspired. So I walked along the promenade and captured Margate's ratty, rusty and redundant life.

With the breathtaking views and fun things to do, we often miss the dilapidation and the wastefulness of the things that are no longer useful to us.

A quaint old street back in Broadstairs

Shell Grotto, Margate, Kent, England. In 1835 Mr James Newlove lowered his son into a hole in the ground while digging a pond. The young boy re-appeared and spoke of an underground labyrinth of chambers covered in strange symbolic mosaics of shells. It is still unclear exactly what the purpose of this grotto was but many believe it to have been an ancient pagan temple, whilst others dismiss it as being the meeting place of a strange cult.

I miss the old Stymie sign.

 

Shell Grotto, Margate

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