A quick Visit to St Margarets Bay

Spent the weekend visiting family on the East Kent Coast and decided we would pop over to St Margarets Bay as we had not been for some time. As a kid I was over here often and my dad used to run the GPO Repeater station on the top of the hill - great views over the channel from there and there are secret tunnels underneath - I understand they once filmed an episode Dr Who in there. We walked along the front to the 4 houses at the end that Noel Coward rebuilt after WW2 and entertained Holywood stars there. In the end he left for Jamaica and his friend Ian Fleming moved in and wrote his third James Bond book, Moonraker, there. The shoreline at the north end is mainly huge flint pebbles scoured round and grey by the sea. Every bit of metal is suffering from the eternal ravages of rust giving that seaside glamour look. We then walked south to the other end of the bat with the pub on and the brightly coloured beach huts. There were plenty of people about,though not that many, including…