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[@cafsixtieslover]

We stayed in Cliftonville regularly when I was small in the 50s/60s. I remember it being totally full of life with all the cafes on the beach and I still love walking down the gaps to the beach. I have a framed postcard on my wall with a picture of the beach in 1971. I remember taking my daughter into one of the Butlins hotels in the early 90s. I am visiting Margate for the day on a coach trip later this year and hopefully I will have time for Cliftonville too.

[@JimDriver]

I like the new Cliftonville: very different but still worth a trip. Great new shops and interesting ideas, mostly geared towards a younger generation.

[@wobke1961]

Thanks a lot for this really informative video, I enjoyed it a lot as it brought back many lovely memories! I have been many times to Margate since my childhood from 1969 on. An uncle of mine had a restaurant in Cliftonville in Northdown Road. It was called ANGELO'S (in the same building as the ALBION BOOKSHOP, more or less about 2: 47 in your video) and it existed from 1965 (former PARAKEET, older generations may remember) till 1989 when he retired and closed it. He then lived in Avenue Gardens where he bought a beautiful house. I always enjoyed my stays in good old Margate and I am looking forward to a next trip soon !!!

[@kissywitch]

Thank you for doing this walk. You walked past the bottom of my street! I think virtually all the architecture is pre 1920s, the East part Victorian/Edwardian and the Margate end 1700s/early 1800s, with some exceptions of course. 20 years ago Cliftonville was really bad but it is, in the main, so different now.

[@mickyeverton]

Many Thanks Jim, great trip down memory lane, Peace From London. 🙏🙏

[@JimDriver]

Glad you enjoyed it, Micky and thanks for the compliment. I've literally just completed the next Margate walk: from the Lido to the railway station (via Winter Gardens, Turner, the Old Town and Dreamland). Should be up over the next two days. Hope you get chance to watch that, too…

[@AlanfromNorfolk]

Thank you for your informative film. As a boy, I holidayed in Cliftonville many times with my parents and sister in the 1950s and 1960s. . Later, my wife and I had a holiday flat in Beresford Gardens. Many happy memories.

[@JimDriver]

Very glad you enjoyed it and thanks for sharing your memories. As I said in the video, I'm very fond of Cliftonville myself and I love the history. So glad the area seems to be on the rise again.

[@julietaruya3667]

Open your Country to tourism, ❤.

[@julietaruya3667]

Wonderful video ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ thanks for sharing very grateful 🙏👍👌it's a beautiful place, but the British don't appreciate what they have, instead being welcoming they are hostile to visitors.

[@JimDriver]

Thank you too. I want to do more local videos around Ramsgate, Margate and Broadstairs, but now I'm a Thanet District councillor, I have to be extra careful what I say!!

[@farhadbavarsad1636]

Thanks that was brilliant i went to English language school in Cliftonville in 1977 lots of wonderful memories

[@JimDriver]

Glad you enjoyed it. I hope to do more walks in and around Thanet ovr the coming weeks. Cheers!

[@kimagangobrit4480]

Had a great holiday in Cliftonville years ago at a Butlins hotel, where my young son got the football bug being trained daily by a retired ex Southampton player (cannot remember his) my daughter won a Butlins competition becoming the "toast" of Cliftonville (by mum & dad pinning breakfast toast to her outfit 😀 that will embarrass her. All in all, it was a great holiday.

[@JimDriver]

Thank you for sharing your holiday memories with us! Cliftonville has changed over the years. Butlins may be long gone (as are almost all the big hotels), but my son and I went to a wonderful Farmer's Market behind the Walpole Bay Hotel (still there!) last Sunday.!

[@philipluxembourg9013]

I was hoping to see the hotels we stayed at in the early sixties , they were situated anther moment away from where you finished your video, anyway it wasn’t boring ! Well done😅

[@JimDriver]

Thank you very much for your kind words. Most of those hotels are gone now and a few that remain have been turned into flats. Cliff Neil is a different place these days and I don't think it's any worse for that. Times change. Thanks again and please keep watching!

[@thefatbaker]

Hi Jim, the place you suggested may have been a cinema on Northdown Road was a snooker hall.

[@JimDriver]

Thanks but was it actually built as a snooker hall? In my experience, snooker halls almost always have been built to be cinemas of theatres. The only exceptions I can thin k of are a handful of Temperance Billiard Halls built in Manchester and London at the start of the last century: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperance_Billiard_Halls

[@thefatbaker]

Hi@@JimDriver apparently it was Bobbys & Co a department store before it became a Snooker Hall. Now its Frames Snooker club, but prior to that it had been the Northdown Snooker club.

[@JimDriver]

@@thefatbaker Thanks very much. I've even heard of Bobbys…

[@NicHills]

great video thanks for sharing...

[@JimDriver]

Thanks you very much. Please keep watching!

[@LucySJohnson]

I liked the seeing the theatre as it looked a bit unusual!

[@JimDriver]

It certainly is. Hopefully, the next video will include Margate's historic Theatre Royal, the Winter Gardens and Dreamland…

[@LucySJohnson]

@@JimDriver good to know!

[@anthonywilliams6764]

I went to a special school for sick children in 1954-6 which was called Laleham, is that school still there in Northdown Park Road?

[@JimDriver]

Apparently, Laleham School closed in 2005 and was replaced by Laleham Gap School in Ramsgate…

[@StelBoy2008]

I currently attend Laleham School, except it's no longer called Laleham School. It's now Laleham Gap School, & has been this way ever since we merged with Gap House School in 2005. Unfortunately, we are no longer sited in Northdown Park Road. We moved site to Ozengall Place in Ramsgate in 2016 to a really dull, rushed, characterless building with paper-thin walls you can punch right through.

[@StelBoy2008]

@@JimDriverI currently attend Laleham Gap School, &, yes you are indeed right. It's been Laleham Gap School ever since Laleham School merged with Gap House School in 2005.

[@johnboy4067]

, I'm planning on moving to ramsgate from london I have always preferred hernebay ramsgate and Broadstairs to margate although margate has some great memories, really great video 📹

[@JimDriver]

And of course you can get to Margate quite easily from Ramsgate: there's a bus goes very few minutes in two directions…

[@CARLIN4737]

I lived here 5 years ago. what a dump.

[@JimDriver]

By "here", I presume you're talking about Brighton? Come on, it's not that bad… 😉

[@garydavies988]

I remember lido in it's heyday what shame its declined like the rest of Margate left to rot

[@JimDriver]

Yes, those were different days. I do think that Margate has reinvented itself for the current age and is rising once again. Thanks for watching and commenting, and I hope you subscribed. Cheers!

[@garydavies988]

Yes I guess things do change .but spent my childhood here back then every thing was so much fun Dreamland was always busy hard to leave it behind really but like you say it will fight back but it won't be the same

[@jonmould2946]

Let’s hope they don’t put anymore economic migrants from Dover. Diversity is not a strength.

[@JimDriver]

I'm all for people living where they want to live and, personally, I think diversity is an entirely positive thing. But each to his own…

[@jonmould2946]

@@JimDriver Well I'm a minority in my own town in London. It's run down, alien unsafe, dirty, nihilistic and Christianity has gone. Poland is trying to stop them and we just take in the unwanted from France and dump them in run down places because the rent is cheap. Also we have the so called legal migration on top of that. Enjoy being replaced.

[@leighstreet8298]

The great replacement..