Sandwich is a cinque port, along with Hastings, New Romney, Hythe and Dover – we had some warm family disagreements discussions about these until someone managed to get a phone signal and look them up. The town has a large number of medieval buildings, and we enjoyed a quick look round recently when we were staying nearby.
THE FISHER GATE (1384) on the quayside
THE BARBICAN (and toll house)
THE TOLL TABLE, 1905
Although viable vehicles using an internal combustion engine had only been in existence for about 6 years (and were few and far between), steam vehicles were not uncommon. It’s surprising to learn the variety of transport methods still catered for in post-Victorian England. I’d like to have possessed a ‘wain’. And a ‘chaise’, for that matter.
RIVER STOUR at the quayside, with the swing bridge road that now leads to the Barbican
IS THIS FOR REAL? (looking at the modern screws, I concluded not)
ST PETER’S CHURCH (C13 / 14), now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust
MEMORIAL IN ST PETER’S CHURCH with ambiguous tribute
SANDWICH WEAVERS (1500) a home and workshop used by Dutch workers in the c16 
THE SWING BRIDGE OVER THE STOUR
The quayside was used for army embarkations for wars with France
Too good to miss (from a Kent Events website)
ROLLING HARBOUR GALLERY 
Very interesting, it is somewhere I have never been. I am very ignorant about large swathes of the U.K. Amelia
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We’d never been either to that bit either. Isle of Thanet was a closed book to us. But Mrs RH’s X0th birthday treat was to stay in Ramsgate with all family. Sounds odd but it was in Pugin’s house – huge fun, though the wallpaper was predictably overpowering. Not good with a hangover. Turner Gallery in Margate was good. And seal trip covering – erm – 7 decades-worth of Harbours.
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Smashing post with a great entry, RH. 🙂 🙂
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Thanks Dina. Sorry to delay my reply. This little blog doesn’t get enough attention… Sandwich was very pretty, but don’t swap the North Norfolk coast for the East Kent coast in a hurry. You have by far the best of it! RH
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